TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane plotted and failed to spike Richard Nixon's tea with 600 μg of LSDen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1477arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1469arrow-down1external-linkTIL Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane plotted and failed to spike Richard Nixon's tea with 600 μg of LSDen.wikipedia.orgTheTechnician27@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-21 day ago he inherited Vietnam from Kennedy He co-authored the Southern Strategy, he deliberately sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks to win the election, he explicitly targeted racial minorities and the anti-war left by starting the war on drugs, and need I even mention the obvious? That what Slick wanted to do would not have helped is not an invitation to whitewash this monster. Edit: And you mean “from LBJ”, unless you mean to say that Kennedy started US involvement, which he didn’t.
He co-authored the Southern Strategy, he deliberately sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks to win the election, he explicitly targeted racial minorities and the anti-war left by starting the war on drugs, and need I even mention the obvious?
That what Slick wanted to do would not have helped is not an invitation to whitewash this monster.
Edit: And you mean “from LBJ”, unless you mean to say that Kennedy started US involvement, which he didn’t.