▲ 497 ▼ The lamest countries (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 247 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 years ago (3 children) At least imperial japan no longer exists. Anyone flying the flag is seen as a nationalistic weirdo by normal Japanese people. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children) Yeah totally. But if you dare even insinuate that Japan was anything other than a victim of WW2, the public outcry is so massive that you will be forced to publicly apologize and denounce your previous statement permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] gramie@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago Do you have something to back this up? That wasn't the feeling I had during the seven years I lived in Japan. There was something of a victim mentality, but it wasn't as militant as you are making out. permalink fedilink source parent [–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 years ago* I'm quite certain that the Japanese understand that the imperialists were at fault for the war. They're understandably salty about how the war ended but were also extremely aware that alternative outcomes would have had much more death and destruction than just the two cities. The US didn't just drop nukes because they thought it was funny, they did it as a last resort because the alternative was meat waves on both sides. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago It's a pity, because the design (!) is pretty rad permalink fedilink source parent [–] kurosawaa@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago The Japanese military still flies nearly the same flag. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children) Yeah totally. But if you dare even insinuate that Japan was anything other than a victim of WW2, the public outcry is so massive that you will be forced to publicly apologize and denounce your previous statement permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] gramie@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago Do you have something to back this up? That wasn't the feeling I had during the seven years I lived in Japan. There was something of a victim mentality, but it wasn't as militant as you are making out. permalink fedilink source parent [–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 years ago* I'm quite certain that the Japanese understand that the imperialists were at fault for the war. They're understandably salty about how the war ended but were also extremely aware that alternative outcomes would have had much more death and destruction than just the two cities. The US didn't just drop nukes because they thought it was funny, they did it as a last resort because the alternative was meat waves on both sides. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago Do you have something to back this up? That wasn't the feeling I had during the seven years I lived in Japan. There was something of a victim mentality, but it wasn't as militant as you are making out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 years ago* I'm quite certain that the Japanese understand that the imperialists were at fault for the war. They're understandably salty about how the war ended but were also extremely aware that alternative outcomes would have had much more death and destruction than just the two cities. The US didn't just drop nukes because they thought it was funny, they did it as a last resort because the alternative was meat waves on both sides. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago It's a pity, because the design (!) is pretty rad permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kurosawaa@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago The Japanese military still flies nearly the same flag. permalink fedilink source parent
