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Maiden Voyage Clothing on Etsy

Violating the Geneva Convention to bomb a lightbulb factory in Vietnam

Snubbed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life after he crashed his plane in Vietnam while violating the mentioned Geneva Convention

Supporting legislation to forcefully relocate native American populations Calling Vietnamese people “g**ks” Using his power as a senator to help the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association swindle the life savings of tax payers in one of the biggest political scandals in American history as a member of the Keating Five

Singing that we should “bomb bomb bomb Iran” because he thought calling for support of the murder of millions of innocents was something funny.

Calling people “low life scum” who were protesting Henry Kissinger, a notorious American war criminal who played a role in the US-backed overthrow of the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, and his replacement with the fascist Augusto Pinochet, who became known for tossing political dissidents out of helicopters.

Calling for war and/or supporting war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, West and Central Africa, Iran, Bosnia and Kosovo, Ukraine, Russia, and the DPRK.

Hanging out with neo-Nazis in Ukraine and supporting them shortly before their coup in Ukraine

Later hanging out with neo-Nazis again and holding a “good meeting” with them

It sounds dumb to say that people know these things but won’t talk about them, but the people with enough education and experience to know are part of professional frameworks, and those frameworks and career paths are heavily ideologically and financially gated, and so people with knowledge don’t speak up or talk about things like this because people who do that don’t stick around or advance.  And the people who know but are outside of “respectable” career positions, civilian or government, aren’t relevant and nobody listens to them because there’s nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing so.  That’s how it has worked in the United States since World War II.  That’s why no one learns, and why government has turned into a patriotism purity feedback loop of destruction.