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I've been thinking that we ought to stop using county names to refer to wars. Vietnam is a place, people live there, but when I hear its name I just think about
by __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
I've been thinking that we ought to stop using county names to refer to wars. Vietnam is a place, people live there, but when I hear its name I just think about how messed up my grandpa is because of his experiences in that war.
So I think that instead of "Afghanistan" we should call it "Lockheed's War" or something like that.
- all2 3y agoAnd Iraq would the be the Bush/Cheney/Haliburton War. I'm a fan of this naming convention.
- goodpoint 3y agoWar? Product placement campaign.
- jnsie 3y agoI'm not sure if you're being serious but I like this a lot
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoTotally serious. If we must have wars, let them be remembered as a black mark on the names of the people who profited from them. A cautionary tale about how not to weild power. On the flip side: I have no ill will towards the people of Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam, so I feel bad attaching a negative connotation to the name of their country. As if my tax dollars didn't do enough harm to their homes, now my speech is making it harder to let go of. Yuck. I've been saying things like: > The justification for Putin's war feels even flimsier than the justification for Cheney's war, but then again I'm not the target audience. So far people just raise their eyebrows at me, but I like to imagine it'll catch on.