• @njm1314
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    73 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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      113 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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        -23 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      73 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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      63 months ago

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

      • @njm1314
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        -13 months ago

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