• @MissJinx
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    476 months ago

    Is there anywhere that wasn’t or isn’t fucked up at some point in history?! Humans are shitty. Ancient humans were even worst (very boring, smelly and short life)

    • @Siegfried
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      I think that the roman intervention of Greece, led by Flaminio was totally justified, they did what they had to do. Nothing more, nothing less. Change my mind.

    • @FireRetardant
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      46 months ago

      Most countries act like sociopaths if they were held to individual human standards.

      • @MissJinx
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        26 months ago

        wow you really do think that

    • StrikerOPM
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      16 months ago

      What about Ireland

        • @Im_old
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          156 months ago

          I’m not Irish or British, but fow what I know I’d put a bit more blame on UK for the troubles. Don’t invade/colonize a country, don’t get troubles.

          • @RegalPotoo
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            46 months ago

            The troubles weren’t just Irish people vs colonial oppressors though, there was a ton of sectarian violence between different Irish groups

            • @Im_old
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              If you mean Catholic Irish vs protestant Irish, it was in the end a byproduct of British occupation anyway

      • The Menemen!
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        They had a lot of problems with child abuse. I mean, most countries had, but theirs was somewhat more prominent. One of the less psychotic countries though, I guess.

  • @[email protected]
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    276 months ago

    I mean Japan it this way with USA / Korea, and China probably as well? USA doesn’t really learn Asian history enough to get the backstory.

    • @Crashumbc
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      276 months ago

      US gets very little world history of any type. And what little it does get is whitewashed and only parts that relate to the US…

  • @zzzz
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    256 months ago

    Can you please elaborate? I’m curious to know.

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      In total, between 1965 and 1973, 312,853 South Korean soldiers fought in Vietnam; Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture and Communications in an unofficial investigation[6] estimated they killed 41,400 enemy fighters and 5,000 civilians.[7] After the Vietnam war, there were thousands of children of mixed Korean and Vietnamese descent, called Lai Dai Han, born of Korean workers or soldiers and local Vietnamese.[8] Reportedly, many resulted from widespread “My Lai-style massacres” that[9] involved the rape of Vietnamese Women by South Korean soldiers.[8] Various civil society groups continue to hope for a formal investigation and apology into these events.[10]

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea–Vietnam_relations

      • @yamanii
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        286 months ago

        Wait they also never apologized but still pester Japan about it?

      • @curiousPJ
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        186 months ago

        Yikes so they literally did onto others what others have done to them.

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        16 months ago

        We really start needing to draft into combat roles the families of leaders. There would have been no Vietnam war if John John was deployed

    • Polarsailor
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      South Korean (ROK) soldiers were heavily involved in the US-Vietnam war and had a reputation for being effective but brutal. Maybe this is related to that?

  • twelve20two
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    I mean, even from their own perspective, they’ve had a very unpleasant history, especially the last hundred-fifty years or so

    • @highenergyphysics
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      They’ve reached the point of deserving it. Modern Korean society is completely brainrotted by capitalist and right wing influence.

      In the next 10-15 years we are going to see what real late stage capitalism is like, and it will be in South Korea.

      A toast to the future.

      • @EndlessApollo
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        266 months ago

        Are you a tankie or do you just think it’s cool and edgy having takes as immature as “government bad therefore they deserve it”

        • nifty
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          It’s unnecessary to assume they’re a tankie. My guess is someone who has experienced that life first hand? If you’ve seen movies like Parasite you get an idea of mindset and culture OP is talking about. Of course it’s not all as extreme as OP says, but there are reasons why the term Hell Joseon is part of the culture there, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Joseon

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    For anyone wondering about the anime girl’s source, she’s from Future Diary.

  • @[email protected]
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    36 months ago

    America absolutely wrecked the situation in Korea and for little other reason than rabid anticommunist sentiment.

    • @Crashumbc
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      146 months ago

      While the US has done shitty stuff and did even in Korea.

      I would bet almost all of South Korea prefers their current situation over having the entire peninsula look like N.K. and living like that.

      • @[email protected]
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        Perhaps the DPRK wouldn’t be as poor and reclusive if they hadn’t had almost all the cities in the north bombed until there was nothing left by Americans. And South Korea’s situation was really not that great either for a long time. It was led by brutal US installed leaders like Singman Rhee. The north was much better off by most metrics until later on.

        • TheDankHold
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          So it’s better despite having an equally brutal regime? With a leader worship akin to Ancient Rome? It feels like you’re splitting hairs tbh.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s undeniable that the embargo is responsible for quite a lot of economic suffering in North Korea while only strengthening the Kim monarchy’s grip.

          It’s also undeniable that the South Korean government eventually reformed their way out of fascism. Was that narrow, twisty, and decades long path worth the war that was fought, given it is also simply impossible to say what would have happened if the Allies had let the fascists in South Korea be conquered?

          Would that have strengthened the Kims, or would they be more like the modern Vietnamese government? Or would they just have been annexed by the PRC?

        • @[email protected]
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          06 months ago

          North Korea had higher standards of living than South Korea until the 1980s. Bombing hasn’t really got anything to with how bad North Korean system is.

        • @MindSkipperBro12
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          Maybe North Korea wouldn’t suck if they didn’t start a war that they couldn’t win.🤷🏿

          • @[email protected]
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            66 months ago

            ? They’re just using the real name.

            Do you get mad when people call “America” USA?

            • @afraid_of_zombies
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              About as mad as I get when I hear people calling the French Republic “France” or the United States of Mexico “Mexico”.

            • @EndlessApollo
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              That’s a thing normal people call the US, I’ve never heard someone call it the DPRK who wasn’t a weird tankie that circlejerks about how cool north Korea is and how Putin is getting the gang back together and shit

            • @MindSkipperBro12
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              26 months ago

              I hope you call Russia the Russian Federation, Germany as the Federal Republic of Germany, etc.

              • @[email protected]
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                There are a number of states that involve split countries, contested land, or military occupation, where it is useful to be specific. Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland both exist in the country of Ireland. DPRK and ROK both exist in the country of Korea. Israel and occupied Palestine both exist in the country of Palestine. Republic of Somalia and Republic of Somaliland both exist in the country of Somalia. The PRC and ROC both exist within the country of China. Before reunification, there were the DDR/GDR and BRD/FRG in the country of Germany