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"No nation is older than 250" (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A threads post saying "There has never been another nation ever that has existed much beyond 250 years. Not a single one. America's 250th year is 2025. The next 4 years are gonna be pretty interesting considering everything that's already been said." It has a reply saying "My local pub is older than your country".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

Genocide has been a frequent practice for thousands of years, ever since the standard social unit was the tribe and one tribe would massacre another. Whole populations have been "put to the sword". The Americas are probably the largest single area, but if you really knew your history it would seem just as wild that Europeans and others around the world have forgotten about this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Americans were straight up humane in their genocide vs. historical examples. Hell, I'd say Israel is doing worse today, not even pretending to make treaties, move people about, nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Sure... Gaza is worse off that Hiroshima and Nagasaki!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties

A 1975 U.S. Senate subcommittee estimated around 1.4 million civilian casualties in South Vietnam because of the war, including 415,000 deaths. An estimate by the Department of Defense after the war gave a figure of 1.2 million civilian casualties, including 195,000 deaths

The Israel-Hamas war has less than 0.003% of the casualties the US inflicted on Vietnam. That's not to say the Israel-Hamas War isn't a bad thing (all wars are) but just trying to snap you back from historical revisionism.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Vietnam had 16 times the population of Gaza at the time. So your 1.4 million ends up being 87,500 if you keep the ratio and that's over 20 years. Israel has passed 50,000 in less then 2 years.

Also, the fact that you can compare the current situation to what happened in Vietnam and Japan should give you a hint that you are defending the wrong party. This is far from the win you think it is. Defending those things would be unimaginable, you should think about what that means.

It's not the Israel-Hamas War, it's the genocide of the Palestinian people by a vile warmongering apartheid state.

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