Tsunami "payback" for Pearl Harbour

[ZippyDSMlee]

Oy vay frist off it would be "Earth quake "payback" for Pearl Harbour" but thats just silly because we fcking nuked them, let me rephrase that we did with 2 planes a bit more damage than 50 of them, not only that it took the wind out of their revived warrior culture.

Now another thing if anything the statement should read "Tsunami "payback" for living on a volcano" and even that is half right.

I swear sometimes I think humanity should never be allowed out of the stone age...

 

[VaderMan92]

You know I always thought that being the only nation ever nuked was payback for their war-crimes and treachery. Also somehow I doubt that this is more than a few anons on 4chan just doing what they do.

 

[hannan4mitch]

God dammit, how does these people's minds work?

Simple:
To them, the US is God's favored nation above all other countries.
So, to them, attacking the US is roughly equal to attacking God.
And, in their version of Christianity, God doesn't like to be f--ked with.
So, to them, God harnessed the powers of nature to get back at the Japanese for something they did over 60 years ago, despite the US nuking two cities and killing hundreds of thousands around 4 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

What's ironic, is that most of these people are probably writing these pieces of distilled ignorance and hate on a computer that was designed in Japan or by a Japanese company.

 

[LilGherkin]

-SNIP-

Jonabob87, you have created a thread that seems to promote hate onto an intended group of people, and unintended groups by association. Some posters have even entertained the idea of killing them, and in response to that I think it would be best if you try to take this thread down.

On a related note the loss suffered by Japan is a tremendous toll upon them. But the people you have mentioned in your link are entitled to their own opinions on the situation, and should not be verbally prosecuted for them. In actuality most of these posts on the thread are talking about the group you have mentioned when it's very comparable to what that group has said about Japan; in the sense that both are promoting very immoral behavior/responses towards each other.

 

[CleverCover]

We're not all this stupid! I swear!
Some of us remember history class!

Why oh why can't some people keep their mouths shut and their computers off?
'sigh'

 

[Thimblefoot]

Fuck them, seriously. Fuck 'em. All I have to say.

 

[Mynop]

Poor Japan.
They give us a lot of different magnificient entertainment, delicious food items and many awesome technological household items.
Yet there are people who go saying such horrible things.
Japan, hang in there. T^T

 

[theguiltyone]

Sounds like the Westboro Baptist church's been keepin busy.

My thoughts exactly.

And I'd like to be able to say that most of us are reasonable people and don't think like this...except every time I look at a news article regarding this on Yahoo that allows user comments, it proves me wrong. There are a good amount of stupid, hateful people and there's nothing much that can be done about them, except not give them the time of day or an ounce of our attention.

But as long as their words continue to outrage, people will pay attention to and repeat what they say. So yeah...endless cycle.

 

[Trildor]

As if Pearl Harbour was the worst thing Japan ever did.

 

[Zeraki]

Oh sure because the incendiary bombings, Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't enough.

Seriously, it's people like these that make living in America embarrassing.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Just get's worse and worse:

 

[Wicky_42]

People, this is the sort of shit that gives America its bad name. I understand that it's just a minority (well, I hope it is ) but shit, you've gotta realise that that sort of mouthing off isn't going to do your world cred any favours :/ I don't think I've ever heard of any nations whose people can be so crass :/

 

[Fuselage]

I did not think People could get worse.

 

[Vodes]

Taking a tragic situation and turning it into utter stupidity...congrats, you have to work for that sort of ignorance!

 

[Gruevy]

Let me point out that that I couldn't care less about the specific intentions of the OP because at best, this thread was started out of ignorance.

Lately, I've found myself greatly irritated whenever someone passes along information that's "obvious" in a way that it tends to incite very similar responses among the populace. I'll rephrase and ask again: What's the point of it? To ignite righteous indignation? To gloat over the perceived stupidity of other people? To crush our "faith in humanity"? Judging by the viciousness in which the masses attack and how much attention is paid on such minor issues, it's becoming clearer and clearer to me, that this information is just a set up. It's as if regular media tabloids are replaced with self-parody while the real misinformation works under a guise within a different source. A distraction. Flies on shit.

See, it's very easy to expose the stupidity in people, if you know the right people, but it's much harder to figure out if someone is smart and who actually knows how to play the system. Do you ever notice why people are always astounded when faced with a new phenomenon, when someone acts out of the beloved cultural norms, they choose to brush it off as mental illness or drugs? And their solution to the former is to put them on drugs? It doesn't fuckin' add up, I tell you. There's unrest in America, and it's only a matter of time when an upheaval forces the infrastructure to collapse on itself and I can't say I'm enthusiastic about it, because this collapse will be likely be caused by the same people who choose to attack such laughably bad targets.

 

[BlackStar42]

Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. I hope Japan gets back on it's feet quickly.

 

[Wicky_42]

We're not all this stupid! I swear!
Some of us remember history class!

Why oh why can't some people keep their mouths shut and their computers off?
'sigh'

I do feel sorry for the sensible, normal, intelligent body of Americans every time your retarded country-mates start mouthing off. I guess you could just think of yourself as honorary Canadians to get you through those stretches

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

Two reasons this doesn't make sense.
1:Even it was some sort of divine payback why wouldn't it have come 10 minutes after the Pearl Harbour attack.
2:America launched the only two nuclear attacks on a country in history and killed a hell of a lot more people than Japan ddid in Pearl Harbour, I think that's payback enough.

 

[Jonabob87]

I think if I was trying to make America look bad I could come up with better ammunition than a small amount of the population saying ridiculous things.

Just because something isn't pro-american doesn't mean it's anti-american, I didn't say "Americans are clearly stupid" as other people have in this thread. I said that some Americans had been saying these things, not ALL Americans.

First off, in your OP, you actually state that "a fair amount of Americans" believe this, which implies that you believe the number is not small. You also use the word "torrent" to describe the number of comments, which then implies not just a non-small number, but a large number. That doesn't exactly come off as a belief that this only applies to a small percentage of the population.

Second, it seems like you meant it as an anti-American thing given the timing and the general attitudes of the forum, which if you've been around the forum lately, you could have been pretty easily able to pick up on. If you really believed that it is just a small number of Americans who believe this, and didn't want people to associate these ideas with the country at large, you could have been clearer in your OP about it. Sure, some would ignore it and rag on the US anyway, but it wouldn't leave the impression that that's what you wanted. I know that not every thread about the US or any country at all should be a good thing, but the way this OP was worded doesn't exactly read right to me.

Well if you percieve this as an attempt to bash America then all I can do is to apologise and swear that that's not what I set out to do. I saw all of those comments and felt enraged by them, resulting in a wish to feel vindicated in my anger at such stupidity.

If something happened to England and lots of Scottish people were saying it was well deserved for historical reasons I'd probably do the exact same thing.