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"Got defeated by a bunch of rice farmers lmao" is the worst expression of American arrogance. (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Vampire@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Did you know.... there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a farmer?

The best soldiers are often from farming backgrounds. Best athletes too.

It would've been embarrassing for the Vietnamese if they'd been defeated by a bunch of waiters lmao

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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 75 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It also minimises the fact that the Vietnamese, a colonised people, defended themselves against a rabid bloodthirsty genocidal empire that was armed to the teeth at great personal cost.

It's the kind of thing that people who view war as games and banter tend to say. So children basically.

Edit: Also calling an entire east Asian nation one of rice farmers lenin shotgun

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 55 points 4 months ago

Resisted Japan, France and then the US to top it all off. They fought fucking hard.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago

After all that the Khmer Rouge kept fucking with the border and shooting at them so they had to go in there, depose Pol Pot, and end a genocide. It's mind blowing the lengths they had to go just to get everyone else to fuck off and leave them alone.