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• STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Omfg the article you linked actually uses that meme?!

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  • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not sure if that makes it better or worse lol

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    • DD666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Trying to do something different

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    • STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Honestly, it makes the article linked nearly impossible to be taken seriously.

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• Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not sure the emperor “ordered them to kill themselves”, more like propaganda said they’d be better dead than captured

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• DD666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Incidents of “mass suicide” represent the most tragic example of civilians succumbing to the horrific pressures brought to bear on them during the Battle of Okinawa. Apart from the many who took their own lives individually, there were approximately thirty cases of multiple suicides and family members killing loved ones, with the tragic escalation of panic and fear on Zamami-jima and Tokashiki-jima in late March claiming the lives of and people respectively. The majority of mass suicides occurred early in the battle and either involved direct coercion by the Imperial Japanese Army or their functionaries to prevent civilians being taken captive by the Americans, or indirectly by the fear of capture that had been instilled in civilians through contact with the Army. Many of the Japanese soldiers who had fought in China had told locals of the terrible excesses they had committed during the fighting there and…read more

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