Turns out South Korea was a brutal military dictatorship under the backing of the US way longer than you'd think
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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USA and brutal dictatorships, name a more iconic duo!
Russia and brutal dictatorships? They're both up there
Lets just say “superpowers and brutal dictatorships”.
Whoevers dominating in a period in history generally didn’t get there by advocating for peace and self determination.
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So few opportunities to use the word "decimate" literally. And now, one fewer.
Most people don't know the historical definition of decimate, so using here it would be confusing or redundant.
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All, it was more than a general strike. Also, fyi, OP is a bot
How do you know? What are the lemmy telltale signs?
Highly disproportionate post to comment ratio is usually a good telltale sign
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hol up, Jeju island is a real place and a real massacre took place there? Doesn't that make it kinda fucked up that the manga Solo Leveling used it as a location and set a different, wholly unrelated massacre there? I just naively assumed they made up an island. There wasn't even a mention of the labor struggle in either the manga or the anime.
Seems more lile an explicit political statement, but yeah.
I've been trying to go through and see if there are any other allusions that would make it a political statement, but can't really find anything. Maybe that ants were chosen as the enemies who inhabited the island? but the "moral" of that arc was "hell yeah kill everything, even the kids" so I really hope that wasn't meant as an allusion. It's not like the manga makes any political statements in general, it's your typical generic shonen "helping people is good" and "get strong" kinda themes. I guess there's a bit talking about people trying to forget Jeju Island, but it's played entirely in-universe. Seems too strange to be coincidence though.
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The anti-socialist views of the southern government and worry about losing control to the north played more into it than the strike.
I live near one of the uncovered mass graves. They put a hauntingly beautiful memorial over it.
This is the kind of shit that either gives you a raging authoritarian boner or like in my case, radicalises you toward anarchism, because fuck the state, fuck absolute power.
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