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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 82 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Japan was expanding long before 1930's. Korea, Mongolia, and parts of China were already under Japan long before 1930.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago

Yeah that comment is wildly ignorant of Japan's actions and aspirations pre1930. Fuck Trump and these tariffs, mind you.

[–] coherent_domain@infosec.pub 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

But, the full scale invasion of China by happens around 1931, which then lead to the conflict that get China involved in WWII.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_incident

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, full scale. But they already occupied parts of China before 1930. It wasn't tariffs for Japan. It was sanctions on oil to force them to stop invading. Their response was to speed up invasions to secure oil.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Which I suppose goes to the heart of why tariffs and export restrictions are bad. A country that is pushed into a corner where it will be deprived of an essential commodity is highly incentived to fight for it...

Edit: to be clear, not defending Japan at all. Just considering possible implications

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

While that sounds good, that's a reason to not sanction Russia for agression. The alternative to is to not do anything with aggressors.