• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    The effects of the Communist revolution and the US response to it were so powerful that they went back in time by 20 years to start WW2?

    • @njm1314
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      75 months ago

      I’ve read this like five times and I have no idea what the heck you’re trying to get at.

      • @dogslayeggs
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        115 months ago

        The person said Cuba being under US sanctions is what caused the Pacific side of WWII. What they were TRYING to say is that Cuba has been under sanctions, and that OTHER, unrelated sanctions were the cause of the Pacific side of WWII; but they used indefinite pronouns and therefor had a confusing sentence.

        The joke is about the unintended interpretation of the sentence.

        • @njm1314
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          -25 months ago

          Ah. So the joke is he’s bad at reading.

      • @[email protected]
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        75 months ago

        Maynarkh said that Cuba has been under US sanctions, and also that US sanctions started the Japan-US conflict during WWII. Gravitas has misinterpreted it, intentionally or not, for it to mean that US sanctions on Cuba started the Japan-US war.

      • @Grimy
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        65 months ago

        The user he responded to said the sanctions affected WW2 when the sanction happened much later.

        • @njm1314
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          -15 months ago

          Sanctions on Japan. That was extremely obvious in context. I thought they had a point beyond being unable to read.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 months ago

      back in time by 20 years to start WW2

      Boy here is posting from all the way back in 1959….