• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    Dude why do you think they had Vietnam?

    Wasn’t enough houses, colleges, and jobs for all of the boomers that were coming of age.

    Cull the herd a bit. Get the ones that couldn’t afford to avoid it into the military. Problem solved.

    Not enough? Have a domestic war on “drugs”, selectively target blacks and Latinos, and give them free housing in a state or federal prison.

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      42 minutes ago

      Nah Vietnam was because there cold war was too cold and that’s not good for military industrial complex. 60k people is not really enough to make a huge difference in housing.