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A lot of these kids weren't actually orphans but were placed in these orphanages temporarily by their parents due to instability with the intention of later retrieval.

However for the Amerasian children (25% of these roughly), I agree that they should have been evacuated. As I mentioned elsewhere on the post, the discrimination and racism they faced after the war in Vietnam was awful.

They didn't bomb the runway until after operation babylift was completed, so your edit is false, although I don't disagree that at least for roughly 25% of the children who were fathered by Americans, they should have been evacuated. Amerasian children faced extreme discrimination and racism after the war in Vietnam, so much so that eventually America made the Amerasian Homecoming Act.

The title says the river is struggling, but really it's people struggling to not use up all of the water for things like growing water intensive crops in the desert. And from what I understand, the states still haven't made progress on an agreement so the federal government is going to have to step in, and we all know how well that will probably go.

On the flip side, the fediverse tends to have a pretty strong monoculture. You can collect down votes just by disagreeing with someone respectfully or stating your view point here.

Maybe it it's numbers grow, it will become a bit less of an echo chamber.

on chainsmoker cat was here · c/anime · 2 pts · 36d

I started the anime and was just too grossed out after the second episode. One of the few I've ever dropped