Next thing you know we’re family

6 days ago by grumpy_cat to c/historymemes

yakko 54 points 6 days ago

The people weren't at war, their governments were. Never lose sight of the real enemy.

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SeductiveTortoise 15 points 6 days ago

German here. You sure, mate? Cause y'all can't let that idea die...

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Frozengyro 2 points 6 days ago

Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you're saying, but that hasn't been my experience. Either Germans in American or as an American in Germany, we've enjoyed each other's company. Talking, learning a bit of each other's culture, buying each other beers. This isn't a one off thing or with a particular person, it's been my experience a hand full of times both ways.

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SeductiveTortoise 2 points 6 days ago

No it's not a general experience. It's just a bit tiresome hearing dumb jokes about that matter. That doesn't happen often, and it happens with ... special people I don't want to connect anyways.

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RememberTheApollo_ 2 points 5 days ago

The only people making dumb jokes (that aren’t seriously just having a tongue in cheek laugh at history) are the same useless gravy seals resting on the laurels of the last “decent” war the US ever fought and saying “you’d all be speaking German if it weren’t for us!” kind of people.

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 7 points 6 days ago

Yes. Governments are the enemy.

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crimson_iris 1 point 6 days ago

Was it Hirohito or Tojo who tortured and murdered people as part of Unit 731?

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freebee 23 points 6 days ago

Pragmatism. Japanese army did horrible things in Korea and China, so safer to side with USA, who also happened to suddenly own the worlds most powerful weapon ever and had shown they weren't afraid to use it.

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Grumpus_Maximus 8 points 6 days ago

Lmao. I think it's just they didn't have a choice

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piccolo 4 points 6 days ago

More likely the red army was about to show up on their door steps and werent planning on taking prisoners.

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Syndication 13 points 6 days ago

"No hard feelings bro"

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AllNewTypeFace 13 points 6 days ago

Not pictured: the enormous red bear with a bushy moustache looming over to the northwest

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CameronDev 10 points 6 days ago

GG WP

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k0e3 9 points 6 days ago

Ugh, as an Okinawan, this bothers me so much.

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akwd169 4 points 6 days ago

Are there any lemmy/piefed instances in Japan? Just curious since your on a Canadian, never thought about it before

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k0e3 5 points 5 days ago

I dunno about piefed, but I remember having looked for a Japanese Lemmy instance. I think it was basically just one guy's personal project with not much activity other than his own posts.

As for federated platforms, I think Japanese people really like misskey and mastodon. They're really into microblogging over Lemmy/Reddit style (social news?) platforms, it seems.

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tigeruppercut 1 point 5 days ago

There's still an active sub or 2 on reddit. I just happened to check lowlevelaware last week and people were still posting. There used to be another called something like newsokur as well

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k0e3 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah I used to go there sometimes before I got banned from Reddit, but both subs were really boring.

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programmer_belch 8 points 6 days ago

I guess this was in Japan, in the USA they stayed hating the Japanese because of Pearl Harbor. Americans have a slur for Japanese people they weren't afraid to use.

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kboy101222 5 points 6 days ago

Probably the laziest slur ever, too. Just chopped off a few letters

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k0e3 1 point 5 days ago

People kept telling me it's not a slur back on Reddit.

How is, "no you're wrong," an appropriate response to "I don't like being called that"?

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_lilith 5 points 5 days ago

Na, had relatives that fought in the pacific. That hate took more than a generation to burn out

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Agent641 4 points 5 days ago

All my friends in highschool were guys I hated and had beef with and eventually beat the shit out of each other and then bonded by both telling the vice principal we were just "Play fighting" and the teachers "made a big deal out of it" and that we were "Actually great friends" so we didn't get in trouble.

I guess bonding over gaslighting 'the man'

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ArgumentativeMonotheist 1 point 6 days ago

In the way a master would hug a slave but yeah, ig. 🤷

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