The fantasy of playing Final Fantasy

The fantasy of playing Final Fantasy

Source: The Verge You are a negro bunny bound for greatness in the New World, as if the old were simply a mistake. You can’t stop thinking about Sylvia Wynter and something like New World natives; you stall, with everyone else, rather than negotiate a true critique of the present, rather than pause Final Fantasy…

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The scale of the Vietnam War

The scale of the Vietnam War

Source: The Verge Operation Rolling Thunder was meant to be an act of persuasion. The US believed that a drawn-out bombardment would pressure the North to cease its aggression on the South — or, at least, encourage it to ease up. “I saw our bombs as my political resources for negotiating a peace,” President Lyndon…

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