Answering a student's question about Vietnam at a school assembly, Coker responds that "If it wasn't [sic] for the people, it was very pretty. The people there are very backwards and primitive and they make mess out of everything."

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Why do the Vietnamese people make a mess out of everything?" he wonders as the US threatens to "bomb them into the Stone Age"

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

Well it's their fault for wanting to checks notes elect their own leaders and have their elected government control their entire country.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Chokes air with diesel fumes from tanks and warships

Paves over wilderness to build military bases

Napalms villages

Carpets jungles with defoliants

Riddles countryside with UXO from cluster bomblets

"It's those damn natives ruining Vietnam's beauty"

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hitler mostly painted buildings and the art school that rejected him said he could pursue working as an architect or something.

I think it's a fitting thing that he could make those austere buildings but the people came out strange.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

They had a smug aura that mocked the viewer smug-aura-mocks-me