https://lemmy.world/comment/3295001
I’m starting to notice the half of Lemmy not federating with Hexbear is even more reactionary on average than I thought.
The more I learn about actual history, the more I realize that History ™️ is a lot like relying on cops body cameras to learn what happened:
“repression by Syngman Rhee?”
Camera was switched off“Jeju Uprising?”
Camera was blocked by my uniform“When the South invaded the North?”
Camera was malfunctioning“When the North continued south to liberate it?”
When they violently invaded without provocation? I guess it was just a loose connection 'cause we got great footage of that!I would support the North liberating the South even on the simple basis of the US colonial takeover of the latter. That said, did the South really invade first?
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Jeju uprising
Looked that one up, and once again the forces established to fight them used a skull on their logo.
Real AreWeTheBaddies energy no matter if it’s Ukraine or SKorea.
Listen to Blowback
I’m trying, man. It’s just too depressing to listen to more than an episode a week.
I listened to the first 2 eps and now took a break for a while, any tips on how I can get a quick refresher on what I’ve heard so far? I’ve forgotten who everyone is already
It might be worth listening at 1.5x speed. Idk if there are any posted summaries anywhere
Say it with me now:
You can’t invade your own country
The “learn history!” In a completely ahistorical post is one of my favorite genres of posts
Especially when it isn’t “learn history” so much as it is “Ignore every part of history that conflicts with my simplistic pop-culture view of history.”
Even if they did do an invasion, the proportional response is not deliberately firebombing every man, woman and child then bragging about it. That’s literally just genocide.
never ask what was going on in the south when the north crossed the 38th parrallel
Just because the regime lead by an ultranationalist nutball was killing everyone to the left of Hitler doesn’t mean anything
history started in June 1950
They probably also think the Irish invaded England
If Ireland wasn’t lawfully England then why did English nobility own all the land?
Yeah they got pushed to the other big instances when we got ml and ee.
It would be cool to press into one that is pissed about it’s Nazi problem and wants to do something about it (beehaw, maybe blahaj).
Both of those spaces literally don’t want us there despite the fact that it’s INCREDIBLY obvious that when you purge the left from your spaces you inevitably shift absolutely all participation in your space massively rightwards along with kicking out all the people who are actively involved and motivated to counter the far right.
They did this to themselves.
Imagine if, during the American civil war, Britain came in just as the south was about to loose, and then burned down every single structure in the north and killed 20+% of the population. Then went on to tell everyone how the North were actually the bad guys.
wuddabowtesm
I saw this and gave him an upvote in solidarity. I was gonna comment but don’t really wanna deal with contrarian bullshit stress today.
I’m reading Killing Hope in chunks and according to that text, it’s unsure who did what to start the actual Korean War but it sounded a lot like the whole ass scenario was basically a powder keg waiting for any spark.
I’ve also read that a majority of the population was for communism.
I also read that McCarthy tried to unexist all of North Korea until China intervened since the US was shitting all over their doorstep.
People say “learn history” as if there isn’t 4 different accounts depending on what narrative you are after.
Like sure guy, what history do I need to learn to satisfy your western take on a situation that happened on the other side of the planet 40 years before you were born?
“Invaded the South”
“Liberated the South”uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
im gonna declare a new country called ‘Sink TERF island’ in Essex and claim England invaded it so america will go to war with england. Wish me luck!
