• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    It is very painful and difficult to read.

    Every single person the book talks about is a person like every user here on Hexbear, with the same beliefs and ideals of a world future united and free of capitalist exploitation. It is very painful and very difficult to get through if you humanise the numbers, each with a family that was destroyed.

    For any americans looking to seriously break lingering nationalist brainworms they may have I also like:

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I can imagine. I saw Act of Killing which was similarly brutal to watch for similar reasons.

      I don’t think I have any nationalist brainworms to break but I’ll look that one up too. Thanks!

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        It makes you go from “The US is evil and the current power structure must be destroyed, but with revolution it can become a force of peace and humanity on the world stage” to “JDPON wen?”