• killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    6 days ago

    War? Haven’t seen one in years … Oh that? Special military operation… This one? That’s a “conflict” but I can see your mistake.

    Genocide? Sorry not familiar with that word

      • scratchee@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        I feel like that’s justified though. Both sides were out in the middle of fuck all squabbling over a rock with a handful of people on it, very few civilian casualties, low stakes for both countries (well ok, maybe not for the specific governments, but neither side had to worry about being invaded anywhere that really mattered to them). Compared to something like the Ukraine war, it’s more of a skirmish.

        EDIT: to be clear, I do not want the Falkland’s to be “my war”, it was a stupid war.

    • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      At first, I simply assumed that it referred to the Finnish Civil War (any war with any connection to Russia is top of my mind these days), but then your comment made me realize that it’s more likely to be referring to some civil war that attracted a lot of international fighters, so it must be the Spanish Civil War.

      • potoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        6 days ago

        Consumption, sir! I first served in Easy Company, in the 101st Mushroom Regiment in Amsterdam back around 2015. It changed me.

        Redeployed to push back the creeping evils of Marihuana and LSD domestically, but no matter how much I consume, I seem unable to make a dent in their availability to these craven loons and their insatiable and dark appetites.

        I’ve grown very concerned lately about the effects of DMT. I’m hoping to volunteer soon to try to collect as much as I can find and ingest here locally, before it falls into the hands of a drug user.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    5 days ago

    I wonder if anyone could analyze education about war (and fascism) and how it correlates with the downfall of the History Channel.

    It used to be wall to wall WW2 documentaries. And prior to streaming, sometimes there was nothing else on. So the channel was on A LOT while I was growing up.

    Then they started with the Ancient Aliens and Ice Road Truckers shit and eventually phased the actual history out entirely.

    Now it seems like the people who grew up during that period know nothing about this shit.

    • Boing@lemmy.ca
      1·
      4 days ago

      I didn’t need the History channel when I was a kid to learn about fascism. I had a Grand Father that was in Europe and he didn’t talk much about the war a few of his buddies did and I read/looked at books. We were taught history in school as well. I had a teacher whose family had escaped from East Germany and she was an amazing teacher, a little left wing but that’s understandable. I grew up during the Cold War, when we still had Nukes on Canadian soil. Now we were always called “peace keepers”. That bothers me because during both wars Canadian soldiers were feared on the battlefield. The peace keeper name started with the UN missions but it was also the beginning of the end of our once great military.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      At least with Pawn Stars they would loop the items back to history a lot of times. (Don’t actually remember if Pawn Stars was a history channel show.) But yeah, reality TV slop just filled so many channels.

  • Denjin@feddit.uk
    18·
    6 days ago

    Looks like I got Second Sino-Japanese, boy I hope I enjoy reading about war crimes.

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 days ago

    what if you think being in to wars and history (The dry, battle of X kind of history, not cool shit like slave rebellions and famines) is kinda lame? Am I like a conscientious objector?