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This article is incredibly low quality and I don't say that lightly. I agree that names don't mean much. This username is linked to a single GitHub account. Th
by kodah 5y ago
This article is incredibly low quality and I don't say that lightly.
I agree that names don't mean much. This username is linked to a single GitHub account. The pseudonym I write under is entirely made up. I have no interest in brand recognition or getting hired because people recognize my name. In many ways, I think provenance is a cancer to the proliferation and building of truly good ideas. Instead, I'd rather people focus on the ideas I've presented and debate those - they, with hope, will live on a lot longer than my name will.
Lastly, since it brought up Jane Fonda and characterized her involvement in the war as a "visit": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda#Visit_to_Hanoi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda#Visit_to_Hanoi
Jane Fonda actively participated in the propagation of propaganda for her own entertainment and brand. She's quite well known in most veteran circles for calling people who had visible signs of torture and abuse "hypocrites and liars and pawns" when they told their stories, then tried to walk that back to, "I'm quite sure that there were incidents of torture ... but the pilots who were saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was systematic, I believe that's a lie."
History now shows us it was systemic and all she had to give was a very half-ass mea culpa for her photo in an AA gun that was used to shoot down US planes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda#Regrets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda#Regrets