On this day in 1970, a spontaneous uprising against U.S. military occupation broke out in Koza, Okinawa, Japan after an American drunk driver struck a local pedestrian. Approximately 60 Americans and 27 Okinawans were injured, and dozens of cars with American license plates were torched.
Following Japan’s defeat in World War II, the country was occupied by Allied forces and governed under martial law. While most of Japan regained its independence in April 1952, the Okinawa Prefecture was to remain under U.S. military occupation for another twenty years.
Prior to the events of December 20th, three Americans had been acquitted via court martial after striking and killing an Okinawa civilian. This incident fueled the growing discontent of Okinawans with the standard status of forces that exempted U.S. servicemen from Okinawan justice.
On December 20th, 1970, a drunk U.S. serviceman struck an Okinawan pedestrian in the city of Koza. A crowd quickly surrounded the car and the policemen who had arrived, demanding that this incident not also be swept under the rug.
When American MPs arrived and attempted to pull the driver away, the protest turned violent, with thousands gathering to try to prevent the driver from leaving. By the end of the night, dozens of cars with American license plates had been torched and approximately 60 Americans and 27 Okinawans had been injured.
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Bummed that weird twitter led to Jocat quitting internet creating. Most harmless man alive
You can take the worst posters out of somethingawful, but you can’t take the somethingawful out of the worst posters.
Look at this pretty arsenic sulfide mineral
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Imagine the ship of theseus paradox.
Now, imagine the size of the shit I just took.
I am a changed man.
Is this a dialectics? 🦋
The long arc of history bends toward Jeb! once again
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Who knew a 4-3 decision by the Colorado Supreme Court would unravel the whole thing and put the gas to the balkinization fire faster than anyone expected
I have approximately 19 hours before my exam tomorrow. I have 8 hours of lectures to watch (at 2 time speed, there are 16 hours total). I have never seen about half of these lectures because I didn’t show up. So essentially I must learn a semester’s worth of material in less than 24 hours. Lol lmao
This is the third time I’ve done this in the past week
Are you severely depressed or something? If so, get some help. If not, show up to classes…
And if you seriously don’t value your degree this much, don’t waste money on an
overpriced Americaneducation.Sorry for assuming but the point still kinda stands.
Are you severely depressed or something?
Yes lol
don’t waste money on an overpriced American education.
I’m not American
I’m sorry, yo. I struggled through college with untreated bipolar and ADHD and it was nightmarish. If you have access to mental health care please, please try to get help.
This sounds like the average uni experience tbh
i will never understand why people enroll in courses and then don’t show up to the lectures
Death to America
For me it was severe untreated mental illness. : (
TikTok is such an echo chamber I actually thought most Silicon Valley Zoomers would be anti-capitalist and anti-big tech and I’ve been reeling from culture shock for 2 whole years
What hard quarantining for 2 years does to a person’s perception of the world
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It’s been two years and I have yet to run out of men-related content
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Despite Hexbear’s efforts men continue to exist
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Yeah, yea, adventurism isn’t a useful strategy yadda yadda. But you can’t tell me it wouldn’t be satisfying to see a couple of right wing heads of state get doohickeyed
Don’t do adventurism as praxis. Do it as entertainment
All I’m saying is, take a trip to the range a couple times before you get to the baseball game and embarrass your self.
The doohickey incident throws all our theory about adventurism in to question.
He affected material change and the political system changed in response. We cannot simply dismiss adventurism and propaganda of the deed in a post doohickey world.
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