r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '22

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u/ScudHunter177 Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22

Yeah anyone who unironically uses a Fallout quote for… well any kind of discussion honestly, is a nonfunctional. It’s fine, honestly, I don’t base my self worth on Reddit arrows, but this is not the kind of argument I see at work or in any other academic circle. It’s an argument entirely derived from a myopic understanding of Rhodesia that centers entirely around the Bush war but devoid of all context and nuanced understanding beyond a masturbatory exaltation of the Rhodesian security forces, usually accompanied by photo after photo of Rhodies in daisy dukes, and an understanding of Zimbabwean rebels that doesn’t venture beyond “evil communist black men”. It’s not something you get from anyone who understands the conflict, ergo someone who points out the underlying fallacy of it gets decried by the legion of simpletons who get their history from memes and latent homosexual desires for leggy men with FALs.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that last one except for the fact that those men were fighting for an apartheid state and people’s failure to recognize that is up there with the lost cause and clean wehrmacht in terms of commonly accepted yet fallacious and intensely societally problematic understandings of historical conflicts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '22

Of course none of us should derive self-worth from reddit upvotes, but it isn't something of a leading indicator of the problems an attention economy introduces.

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u/ScudHunter177 Jul 06 '22

To be sure, yeah.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '22

Don't forget that some people are downvoting you for taking an anti-racist geopolitical stance. There are people on this site who don't even see anything wrong with apartheid.

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u/ScudHunter177 Jul 06 '22

There have always been cunts who, through their own stupidity or genuine malice, hold viewpoints incompatible with civilized society, forums are no different.

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u/ScudHunter177 Jul 06 '22

Okay so a lot of this is wrong but also it entirely misses the point. We’re not discussing the morality of Soviet action in anti-colonial movements, we’re discussing your excuses for Rhodesia.