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Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
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this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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Our species is really good at getting creative with low-budget weapons, whether it's diseased blankets or catapulting our own plagued corpses at each other.
That’s right, the medieval era. Ridiculous shit man.
The blankets were given to Native Americans by colonists. I forget whether they knew or not, but the American genocide is 100% real.
The lobbing corpses thing is attributed to Genghis Khan, and it may be apocryphal.
Consider the Nazi atrocities and how everyone (rightfully) marks it as the worst event (at least in my environment) in history.
I wonder, if all historic events that belong to that category of severe events (whole timeline of events. From end to finish), were to be put into a closer vicinity in the timeline so that everything is viewed less historically and more emotionally equal as to what happened.
Who would be the worst offenders?
The Spanish
The Portuguese
The Chinese
The Germans
The Japanese
The Britains
The Americans
(Did the koreans do anything in regards to a genocide/ethnic cleansing?)
Some other (historic) state?
The Nazis are a bit of a special case. Exterminating the Jews was because they believed the Jews were evil. Yes, there have been arguably "worse" genocides, and the American one may well be - but those were more in order to further another goal, namely occupying land.
I asked this more in the direction of a death-counter.
The reason wasnt my main concern.
Essentially it's always that:
