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How does this have so many upvotes? What exactly is funny about nuking an entire country?
Eh it's just a little bit of a revenge cope fantasy. We don't really fantasise about actually eradicating the japanese and therefore the proletariat and oppressed.
I would say most of this thread would instantly turn against China if they just suddenly started genociding them lul
hexbear has an odd sense of humor
I wouldn't want to put this behavior label on hexbear as a generality. It reads like sociopathic revenge fantasy under the guise of anti-imperialism. Something that China's policy behaves nothing like btw, so it's all the more weird fantasizing about China acting petty and vengeful for laughs.
I am a little thankful someone has pointed this out. I know this isn't exactly a serious forum, and jokes are fine, but I really dont get why the first instinct of people is to go "what if we did what the Americans did last time? But now it's fine cause China is doing it. [hypothetically]" Maybe it's my own biases from reading the accounts of the bombings, but I dont find them especially funny.
I'm glad it could help in that way. Tbh, I get a bit self-conscious complaining about this kind of thing. Even though I don't usually find that kind of thing funny even in an ironic way, I generally try to assume good faith that people are, like, righteously angry and going for catharsis or things such as that and don't want to chastise them over trying to process their feelings and deal with the horrors of the world. But I also get concerned if it looks like it's edging into territory of, "What if we were the baddies? Haha jk, unless..."
they do have this emoji
sometimes combined with 
i don't think they're serious about it
The button is XI "pressing the communism button" most of the time, iirc
yep, but the when combined it implies the nuclear button, which is funny
Ah, yeah, that's true!
I would say it's one thing to have a silly looking image and it's another to explicitly state that it would be funny if they nuked a particular country. But this is the problem of irony poisoning. Stuff that may have only ever started out as over the top jokes can reach a point it starts sounding a bit too serious and sincere.
very true, i personally find jokes like that a little distasteful