Which of these countries did NOT arm Apartheid South Africa ? I would assume you are a big boy and recognize the flags, Sorry for the weird flag formatting I made this on my phone . : historymemes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

None of you got the meme so I will explain it.

The correct answer is the United States of America.

The whole point is that The USA seems to be the least likely as America especially in the cold war was a racist capitalist country so you would think they would love the racist capitalism of apartheid SA but no actually.

Israel with their never again mantra you would think would oppose the White nationalism of SA but their arms partnership of the apartheid government is very well known especially with the nukes.

The Soviet Union and China. That is surprising but no these countries did actually do arms trade with South Africa. The Soviet Union worked with SA for jet engine development and had this complicated scene with SA, the GDR and South America to get guns to them that were on paper sold to other countries. De beers actually had permits to sell Siberian diamonds since they had gotten so good at diamond smuggling. Same with China.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Legitimately interesting. The post is phrased as a question without an answer, so I see why people misinterpreted it, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yeh that is the gag.

A similar meme is "Saddam Hussain had WMDs"

This is obejcitevly correct, at ne point Saddam Hussain did possess WMDs. Sarin and Antrhax which are WMDs as per the Geneva convention during the iran iraq war, but by 2003 he had no active program or stock pile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I meant that the answer isn't apparent in the meme itself, it requires prior knowledge or further research.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Which among these countries did NOT arm the totalitarian dictatorship North Korea?

Now let's go through every major state in the world and see if we can find a single one that hasn't either directly perpetrated or been complicit in horrific human rights violations at some point in its history

[–] aubeynarf 12 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Which of these countries can you not even browse the open internet from, because of tight control over information, thus the population?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's the same picture

[–] aubeynarf 4 points 13 hours ago

it’s literally not, there’s only one of them where citizens aren’t allowed to use foreign social media

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

the soviet union never had access to the open internet. What existed in the West was ARPANET (1969), which evolved into NSFNET in the mid-1980s the backbone of what would become the internet.

[–] aubeynarf 4 points 13 hours ago

And which one has a “great firewall” and criminal penalties for browsing Youtube or Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Where is the meme though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

None of you got the meme so I will explain it.

The correct answer is the United States of America.

The whole point is that The USA seems to be the least likely as America especially in the cold war was a racist capitalist country so you would think they would love the racist capitalism of apartheid SA but no actually.

Israel with their never again mantra you would think would oppose the White nationalism of SA but their arms partnership of the apartheid government is very well known especially with the nukes.

The Soviet Union and China. That is surprising but no these countries did actually do arms trade with South Africa. The Soviet Union worked with SA for jet engine development and had this complicated scene with SA, the GDR and South America to get guns to them that were on paper sold to other countries. De beers actually had permits to sell Siberian diamonds since they had gotten so good at diamond smuggling. Same with China.

The joke is that everyone will pick either the Soviet Union or China and think the USA armed Apartheid South Africa but no they are the one country on the list to not do so

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I understand that this picture is making a point. But that's not funny. Memes are funny usually.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

This isn't a meme, it's a statement.

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