It's stunning how many people seem to forget that there are other countries on the planet that use dollars and weren't involved in Vietnam. No, I'm not making an assumption. The person who posted this is Canadian.
Y'all really need to take a step back and reflect a little bit.
They left out the part about getting drafted and sent to Vietnam with that 3rd grade education and risk dying for people that didn't care about you and other that hated you. Then coming home and getting spit on, literally spit on, by the people around you. And no one caring about the damage war caused you.
The poor baby murderers got a little water on them
This is a myth.
I don't think he was talking about the protestors....
Vietnam vets and bdsm, name two things that go together better.
Which all would be lovely and true if they were American.
They're not.
It's almost like countries other than the United States exist...
I know it SAYS they live in Toronto, but they also said "Third Grade" and not "Grade Three", as would be proper in Canada. Maybe it's possible they are from the U.S. and currently live in Canada?
It's almost like sometimes people move...
Are those phrases not interchangeable in Canada?
Saying "# grade" might be more common where I am in the US, but no one would bat an eye if you said "grade #" because that is used commonly enough as well that people are used to it.
They completely are. I have no idea what they're talking about...
I also don't know. That's why it was phrased as a question. I'm not from where you are from. I come from a different country. I asked you a question about a possibility based on my knowledge, and you just tried to gotcha me. What does that do for you? Make you feel superior?
Is that seriously your evidence? That he said third grade? Like I and a shitload of other Canadians say?
Girl.
I'm literally just asking questions. I'm not presenting any evidence, I'm not even really making an argument. I'm just devils advocating your spamming that OP is Canadian just because they live in Toronto. As if everybody who lives in Toronto is Canadian.
Some Canadians live in the U.S. too. There are even people who come from both countries. There are people that have multigenerational history in both countries.
Canadian and American culture are inextricably linked. Being mad at my country doesn't change that, and that kind of arrogance will only doom you to repeat our failures.
Never heard an old black man say "I wish things were like they were back in the 50s."
Honestly, when people say that I think they're referring to the financial system. in the age of surveillance capitalism. and the predatory environments that we live in, there is no protection against corporations from scamming you and nickling diming you from every direction to the point where you're left with nothing and you are wander on the streets. Decades of not allowing people to repair their own things and following the rule of the lowest common denominator, we are left with a very generic throwaway society. that doesn't value human skill set, which leaves us all in a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. It's not that people can't take care of themselves. It's just they're not allowed to, unless the billionaire can get between you and what you need. It seems we are revisiting the 20s and 30s, but only the technofascist version. This is just a continuation of the boom and bust cycle with different flavor.
Nope nor a dirt poor white person either. Never forget, it's all about the money and far less than the color of your skin.
N... no absolutely not. Being black in the 50s is not comparable to being a poor white person in the 50s.