SSTF@lemmy.worldM to Traditional Art@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago'I Think We Won' by Gahan Wilson. 1970.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down10
arrow-up1204arrow-down1image'I Think We Won' by Gahan Wilson. 1970.lemmy.worldSSTF@lemmy.worldM to Traditional Art@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareLinktank@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 days agoIs there something to “get” about this image?
minus-squarethemoken@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 days agoFrom the date I was thinking Vietnam, but with the ruined city on the horizon maybe it’s about mutually assured destruction / nuclear war.
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 days agoGo study the vietnam war.
minus-squareLinktank@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·5 days agoI’m familiar with it, but this image just doesn’t say anything to me. The guy is an idiot? So what.
minus-squareProtoknuckles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 days agoI read it more as a political win that ends in destruction isn’t a win for the grunt on the ground.
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agoAmerica likes to say they won the vietnam war, when in fact they lost. Thats the joke here.
Is there something to “get” about this image?
From the date I was thinking Vietnam, but with the ruined city on the horizon maybe it’s about mutually assured destruction / nuclear war.
Go study the vietnam war.
I’m familiar with it, but this image just doesn’t say anything to me.
The guy is an idiot? So what.
I read it more as a political win that ends in destruction isn’t a win for the grunt on the ground.
America likes to say they won the vietnam war, when in fact they lost. Thats the joke here.