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How does this have so many upvotes? What exactly is funny about nuking an entire country?
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..."