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Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club to historymemes@piefed.social
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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’
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 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.
Probably the laziest slur ever, too. Just chopped off a few letters
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”?
Ugh, as an Okinawan, this bothers me so much.
Are there any lemmy/piefed instances in Japan? Just curious since your on a Canadian one, never thought about it before
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.
Not pictured: the enormous red bear with a bushy moustache looming over to the northwest
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.
More likely the red army was about to show up on their door steps and werent planning on taking prisoners.
Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club 3 days ago Lmao. I think it’s just they didn’t have a choice
yakko@feddit.uk 3 days ago The people weren’t at war, their governments were. Never lose sight of the real enemy.
crimson_iris@piefed.social 3 days ago Was it Hirohito or Tojo who tortured and murdered people as part of Unit 731?
German here. You sure, mate? Cause y’all can’t let that idea die…
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.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 days ago Yes. Governments are the enemy.
GG WP
In the way a master would hug a slave but yeah, ig. 🤷
“No hard feelings bro”
_lilith@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Na, had relatives that fought in the pacific. That hate took more than a generation to burn out