• Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Conveniently starts in the 80s

    The 80’s was 40 years ago; if it conveniently started like five or ten years ago you’d have a point, but 40 years is a gigantic period of time to have no wars. How long of a period do you require? 100?

    The reason we can criticize our own leadership is because we never stopped; we can’t seriously claim we’re not making the mistakes of the past while continuing to do them non-stop up to the present day. Even if the person who made the pic included China’s Vietnam war era, the picture would still be a damning indictment for that gigantic gap of no wars.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Starting it in the 1970s would show one war at the beginning for the Chinese heads of state and then nothing. In a way that would be more of a contrast, because it wouldn’t just look like a different category where “they just don’t have wars there”.