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Why do we have so many holidays celebrating war criminals. Fuck Memorial Day
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Anonymous 13h

What if I wanna honor my great grandfather who was shot and killed in action?

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Anonymous 13h

What about the soldiers who helped win WW2?

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Anonymous 20h

people still have to fight and still die in war no matter if theyre war criminals or not. its a job that has to be done and its a day to honor those who have died and served. nobodys begging you to celebrate, but not every soldier is a war criminal and they deserve a day of respect.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

No one has to fight for America to make a few rich guys richer lol. Totally unnecessary and doesn’t have to be done in the US. Every American veteran is a war criminal and killing ppl to make a couple guys richer is never justifiable

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

you are absolutely moronic.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13h

Are you in denial of what the US empire is?? Call me whatever, at least I’m not a Nazi bootlicker

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

neither am i. but someone has to protect us and its been that way since the beginning of time. before the US. take a fucking history class and stop complaining about people who are there to keep out country safe no matter what their political beliefs are. fuck you.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13h

Protect us from what??? Genuinely 😭 Fuck Nazi bootlickers and those who justify the slaughter and destruction of millions upon millions I think you are the one asleep during history class and projecting. do you nothing of our post world war foreign policy incl the Cold War?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13h

this stands for those that were drafted or came from poor households and needed the military route for financial success, but what about those that choose to go to war?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13h

When was the last time the U.S. military kept us safe? WWII?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

My grandfathers both served too. Doesn’t make them not war criminals

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

You can honor your great grandfather lol, unless he did some fucked shit, then it would be a little weird imo

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

What actions did they commit to make them war criminals?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

Fight for the US empire

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13h

I don’t think he did fucked shit. I’m not sure where he served in WWII but in Korea he was a logistics officer, he stayed while his division retreated from the bloodbath that was Hoengsong and was killed by Chinese soldiers

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

We genocided the Koreans, my grandfather served in the Korean War too. What we did to them is despicable

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

How did we commit genocide?

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Anonymous 13h

It wasn’t invaded by the north, they were tryin to liberate the south from the US backed dictatorship. We killed a quarter of their population!! 80% of infrastructure gone. It was a genocide. And it’s still ongoing actually. The korean and cold war never ended

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

So we should have let the entirety of the Korean Peninsula become North Korea? I think the citizens of north and south would unanimously agree that’s the worst case scenario. Not that it justifies bad actions, but the bad actions don’t disqualify the good either

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

By killing a quarter of the population and decimating 80% of their infrastructure. We’re still actively trying to starve them out

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

Yes we should have let the Korean Peninsula have sovereignty instead of militarily occupy them and decide their government for them, absolutely

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

I don’t get why we can’t simultaneously condemn the mass bombing campaigns and killings while still acknowledging that what we protected in the South ended up being better than the north, at least long term. There were countless good people who had nothing to do with those specific missions.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

We protected capitalism, wealth and western empire in Korea and nothing else

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

what abt the ones who killed nazis bru

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Anonymous 13h

Brother we committed mass crimes against humanity against the Koreans, even if the war itself was justifiable in your eyes, crimes against humanity aren’t 🥀

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Anonymous 13h

No, they were there to liberate them from the colonizing efforts of the US… fuck the UN, they’ve helped the US destroy the rest of the world

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Anonymous 13h

And I’d love to visit the DPRK some day. See what it’s really like. If only the US let me

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 13h

I mean that’s cool but the USSR is the one who deserves credit for defeating the Nazis. We were on their side until they got too ambitious. And then after WWII we recruited them here to run our government programs. So we’re not anti Nazi whatsoever. We actually inspired them in the first place

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

Yes, I agree. But in doing so, look at the economic and quality of life differences between the two. But look how much more prosperous the south is than the north. Does our sanctions have a lot to do with that? Sure. But they were pretty equivalent up until the death of Il Sung. After that their internal government style went extremely repressive and lost support of China and Russia.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

You’ve seen the videos of the dprk right? How you’re guided along a very specific path and you can only film where allowed and all that? It’s not US propaganda that life in North Korea is abysmal. The communism thing totally is. But not the authoritarian regime.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

hey idrc any individual who went to war to fight against nazis deserve the kinda respect memorial day is about

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Anonymous 13h

Bc I’m gonna fight the good fight here where it’s much needed considering how brainwashed Americans are

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

When you financially support one country and heavily sanction the other, I wonder what will happen…

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

The USSR reached Berlin first. We would’ve reached Berlin a few weeks later. If we hadn’t been involved in WWII, the USSR probably would have fallen. If they hadn’t, all of Europe would’ve been under the USSR.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

It is mostly US propaganda, I’d love to visit the ppl in the north some day to see what it’s really like without all the propaganda

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 13h

That’s really not why they went to war but okay

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13h

Literally. South Korea is literally a US proxy state

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13h

That question only works when the US is the only power in the region. We were effectively the 3rd most effective power in the region. Strongest overall maybe. But half a world away. China and USSR were neighbors and kept the north prosperous for a time. Until the government went fully authoritarian.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

For a lot of people in the US, they literally joined to fight Nazis. It was literally the enlistment propaganda we used.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

Are the American soldiers who killed Nazis during WW2 also Nazis?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

Look at videos on bilibili from defectors. That’s Chinas version of YouTube. They exist too.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

DPRK being authoritarian is not propaganda lmfao

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12h

I’m telling you, what the US tells us about our foreign enemies IS mostly propaganda. Look into it yourself and check the funding of your sources

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 12h

I mean that’s not why they were there. It was an inter imperial war

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 12h

Why would the US tell the truth when we’re still at war with them, think about it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

You’re right about the us propaganda thing. But in the case of the DPRK, a lot of it is true. Some of it isn’t fs, but a lot of it is. Just look up what defectors are telling the Chinese.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

If all they tell is lies, nobody will believe what they say. Say enough truth with the lies and it’s hard to tell which is which. In the case of the DPRK it’s mostly truth.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

Considering their record of systemic human rights abuses, lack of free elections, suppression of political dissent, and hereditary ruling structure, I think it’s pretty clearly an authoritarian government

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12h

You just described the US

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12h

You sure it’s not projection?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

The U.S. doesn’t have hereditary rule lmfao, and I’m more than willing to criticize the U.S., but if you can’t criticize the DPRK, that makes you seemingly quite biased, no?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12h

How many politicians are politicians only bc their parent is who said I can’t criticize the dprk? I just don’t criticize the stuff that are lies

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

Which part of my statement was a lie?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11h

Systematic human rights abuses, lack of free elections, hereditary rule. Too much text to fully explain, I’d need an essay And every state cracks down on dissent that threatens the livelihood of the state. Not ideal in a perfect world but when you have the US couping every country that doesn’t bow down to them, it’s no wonder. You could argue that they go overboard but you have to look at in the context of our continued war and genocide of them and what they have to do to survive in response

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11h

You have to look at them and their material reality in the context of our continued genocide

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

We can agree on the dubious history of U.S. interventions, economic sanctions, and the devastating impact of the Korean War. We can also agree on the fact that being surrounded by hostile superpowers shapes a nation’s security posture and economy. We can also agree that the U.S. certainly suffers from political dynasties (Bushes, Clintons, Kennedys, etc.) and oligarchic influence.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

But your statements are full of false equivalencies. U.S. political dynasties exist due to wealth and networking, which is structurally different from North Korea, where political power is legally and constitutionally bound to a single family line by blood. Plus, in the U.S., people can and do protest, organize strikes, and criticize the president without facing state-sanctioned execution or generational labor camps.

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