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Around the world, the Barbenheimer meme has helped launch two Hollywood films into the stratosphere. In Japan, the meme isn't going over as well.

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[–] ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Japanese families living in Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the surrounding countryside were NOT the ones who decided to go to war.

It's easy to adopt an 'us-versus-them' mentality where you blame an entire people for the actions of their unjust leader, but it's more mature to be both glad the war is over and sad so many had to perish to end it.