I live near one of the uncovered mass graves. They put a hauntingly beautiful memorial over it.
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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.
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.
I use it in a mortal combat voice whenever I eat a tenth of something and it always makes my husband laugh (somehow)
How often do you eat a tenth of something?
A few times a month, maybe? A lot of things come in ten packs and the bakery I work at sells five rolls for a discount, so I’ll get two of those relatively frequently
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.
Turns out South Korea was a brutal military dictatorship under the backing of the US way longer than you'd think
USA and brutal dictatorships, name a more iconic duo!
North Korea and brutal dictatorship
The Kims never killed 30 thousand people in a few days
Russia and brutal dictatorships? They're both up there
The anti-socialist views of the southern government and worry about losing control to the north played more into it than the strike.