WW2 trauma...does it persist transgenerationally?

[lovelydivot]

Here's some more "Classic American" humor...

[lovelydivot]

remember this one....I'll have to find the original news report - It's hilarious...

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this still isn't the original - but funny just the same...

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OSHA!!!!! OOOOOSHHHHAAAA!

[butter_man]

my usually well mannered, nice and polite friend had a mad trip last halloween. he had been taking loads of speed, mushrooms and alcohol. he flipped at one point and tore round the front garden screaming at people "DO YOU WANT A FIGHT? NO? WELL FUCK OFF THEN" This went on for hours, luckily the bizzies never showed up. I remember looking at him flipping at one point, I was trippin and trying to soften the reality around him with my thoughts when I seen what can only be described as the souls of his father and granfather taking it in turns to pop up and ask "do you want a fight" when he wasnt agrressive he was smiling like a child.

dunno wether thats this transgenerational wuzzy war thing but other soulsd where using his body that night nh

[test_recordings]

whatever their reasons,
including their concerns about increasing US monopoly of oil
there was no excuse for Japan's barbarity in China
nor, even allowing for Bushido's cultural influence,
their routine mistreatment of prisoners...
on that score "the winners writing the history" does not conceal sanctioned equally-bad behaviour.
And I'm not convinced that the atomic bombing of Japan didn't save (American) lives
although their military had already squandered so many with Macarthur's ego-trips and the island hopping.
In fact, if it had to happen, it would've been better employed earlier.
But I'm glad I didn't have to make the decision
nor about the fire-bombings of Germany for that matter.

Let's hope we don't find ourselves in such desperate times and places again.
But I'm becoming less optimistic as resources are increasingly depleted and held in ransom.

In all fairness though, pretty much all of the Japanese people want good relationships with their neighbours, as highlighted in this article http://m.scmp.com/news/china/article/13 ... ukuni-poll

The current prime minister is turning in to a bit of a dick, it looks like he's going to fuck up by not fixing anything and appealing to the old conservatives.

Imagine judging people in the UK solely on David Cameron, but then some foreign people will. Embarrassing as fuck, at best!

[nowaysj]

I feel like a lot of people have sort of forgotten the nuclear precipice that we've been on since the end of wwii. We are still a hairs breadth from the unthinkable, and will remain so until there is some other more instantly deadly and destructive alternative that will take its place. I am certainly traumatized by that, it hangs over every day I have, every ray of beauty that lightens me.

[test_recordings]

Actually, the US deployment of that missile shield to east Europe is actually meaningless in it's original purpose for Iran. Russia called Obama out on it and they've just stayed quiet... sio Russia is responding by deploying similar defences because itjust looks like NATO pressure