Dark times I’ve seen. Reading an old Dragon magazine from January ’92, and reminded that American reaction to the first Gulf War was this gross self righteous fap fantasy.
@Charlotte I missed a lot of it because I was desperately trying to be a good student at the time - I went to one rally in support of Israel (then being attacked as an attempt to pull pan-Arab sentiment) and that was it, my career protesting wasn't till later.
At the time I was also still coming out of a really conservative place, so even though *I* opposed the war and didn't like the fap fantasy, I parsed the media's INCREDIBLY hawkish coverage as normal. 30 years on, I'm shocked by it.
flashbacks to some of the younger folks at Spumco being excited about getting to make racist propaganda cartoons when... some Bush 2 adventure in the Gulf started. They all blur together.
@anthracite Do you remember Gulf War I at all? I protested Gulf War II, which was really REALLY obviously us just wanting some sort of insane national dopamine hit
@Leucrotta Oh yeah, it got real disgusting for a while there, people watching the war live on TV and watching missiles fly down air vents