Na, had relatives that fought in the pacific. That hate took more than a generation to burn out
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’
The people weren’t at war, their governments were. Never lose sight of the real enemy.
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.
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.
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.
Yes. Governments are the enemy.
Was it Hirohito or Tojo who tortured and murdered people as part of Unit 731?
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.
Lmao. I think it’s just they didn’t have a choice
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.
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
Yeah I used to go there sometimes before I got banned from Reddit, but both subs were really boring.
Not pictured: the enormous red bear with a bushy moustache looming over to the northwest
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”?
“No hard feelings bro”
GG WP
In the way a master would hug a slave but yeah, ig. 🤷
