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ghastlyretard said:
Excuse my ignorance - when did Japan have the opportunity to capture American civilians?
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according to naval historical records the japanese took a few thousand prisoners over the course of the war, probably mostly civilians who were already in those places when the war started, and people who were involved in locations that lost their footholds during the invasion of the islands? there were bataan death march survivors among their numbers apparently, that's pretty hardcore.
 
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The Secret Sauce said:
Enlightened schizoid take: Protesting/rioting as a concept is a psy-op by the powers that be. They want us to think the best way to let our displeasure with them be known is to hold up some faggy signs, do an even faggier chant, and MAYBE burn down a Wendy's if things get extra spicy.
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Honestly I would believe this because protests just make people think you're annoying and don't encourage actual connection and discussion.
If people instead focused on making actual communities and reached out to unlikely voters like the persistence has been doing to make sure they're registered and encouraged to vote they would make a much bigger difference.
 
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YarrBlueballs said:
Japan was the worst and everybody who had even a clue fucking despised them. Their war crimes are the ones most associated with actual large swathes of US citizens and allies despite being under taught. They were the only country to take American civilians, innocent normal people, and brutalize them. Their war crimes, while not at industrial scale, were still massive and, perhaps the most scary, utterly spontaneous. Their ideology of a warrior culture was fucking fragile as fuck and you never knew if a glorious last stand would protect your people when the Japs eventually won, earning their respect, or would lead to starvation, mass murder, cannibalism, rape, ect. Hint hint, it was mostly the latter.

Fuck the japs, we should have nuked them several more times just to make a point. The Cold War and the fetishistic otherness of the """Eastern Cultures""" ruined our chance for good old fashioned multi generational blood feud.
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I remember hearing a story once about a Chinese couple who survived the Japanese occupation and when went to a US museum decades later on it. They believed that Japan should have been nuked more.
 
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My local newspaper interviewed some of the "No Kings" protestors and all of them were over 65. They also admitted to attending multiple protests in the area, though the organizers said that they would stop doing staggered schedules as many attendees suffered heatstroke during the afternoon protests.
 
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Amelia Troonheart said:
Honestly I would believe this because protests just make people think you're annoying and don't encourage actual connection and discussion.
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i've been bashing my head against a brick wall with two communist friends (entirely separate, somehow both very similar :smug:) that protests like this do not actually encourage anyone to feel sorry for blacks or trannies. it is impossible to teach them, no matter how much you show them protesters getting run over, or beaten, or telling a black mother she doesn't matter as much as illegal jorge, that the protests that inconvenience people don't inspire them to give into the protester's demands, it inspires them to turn a blind eye when the riot cops start going overboard on a rodney king or a george floyd type.

nigger fatigue is killing more black men in america than pork chops, and the percentage only goes up year after year.
 
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Just caught up on the thread from around noon yesterday. Watching the footage from all of these gay No Kangz protests reminded me of something….


They really are docile, do as they’re told, and shit on everything. No rhyme or reason. Being loud for the sake of being loud. No real conviction in any one of these people, just the desire to fit in or destroy property in spite of nothing.

The No Kings assemblies are among the gayest things I’ve ever seen. Like I mentioned in a previous post, the thing I visited was no more than a glorified block party where middle-aged white people could gather and get day drunk. No convictions, just alcohol and crude signs that have already been dumpstered. I believe the Redditor gatherings are somehow less cringey and gay. People in attendance were confused as to what the purpose of the assembly even was. Some people thought it was a Pride gathering. Others thought it was an anti-ICE protest. No one knew or cared as long as they could shock their livers.

Once the stock from the local breweries that had set up camp got spent, and restaurants/bars reached capacity, everything fizzled out in my town. Just a way to spend a boring Saturday afternoon.
 
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Diana Moon Glampers said:
You can't really understand the politics of millennials until you understand that we were raised by television as latch-key kids with no one to talk us out of how stupid fuctional stories could be while we were watching them.
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Millennials, the children of Gen X, raised like that? Alexa play "Cat's In The Cradle" by Harry Chapin.
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Would people even care if Trump called Newsom a nigger?
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tsk. That would be so wrong. Newsom is obviously a lizard.

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