A date which will live in infamy
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Yella is right. This was the I'm your captain now moment. And your emperor isn't a god because I beat his ass -
He didn't even put on a dress uniform. Just his regular old khakis that he waded ashore in on Luzon.RaceBannon said:
Yella is right. This was the I'm your captain now moment. And your emperor isn't a god because I beat his ass
The greatest big dick move ever by a US Citizen of a foreign head of state.
"You're no longer a god king, but I'll spare you from the gallows if you help me rebuild this place." -
Yup.YellowSnow said:
He didn't even put on a dress uniform. Just his regular old khakis that he waded ashore in on Luzon.RaceBannon said:
Yella is right. This was the I'm your captain now moment. And your emperor isn't a god because I beat his ass
The greatest big dick move ever by a US Citizen of a foreign head of state.
"You're no longer a god king, but I'll spare you from the gallows if you help me rebuild this place."
Hirohito's surrender over the radio* was another humbling moment for him - most Japanese emperors had been locked away and didn't speak to commoners.
But he was kinda sneaky that he delivered the speech in classical, rather than vernacular, Japanese (it would be like a US President giving their State of the Union address in @ShakespeareDawg iambic pentameter or something) so normal folks didn't really understand a lot of it. It was also pre-recorded, and didn't say "surrender" explicitly, but rather that a "joint agreement" was reach with the US.
*He opted not to send a delegation to Eugene -
I came here for the AI art malarkey; stayed for the iambic pantemeter.
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Coward is a better word. Much better men than MacArthur have defied orders from their superiors and insisted on dying with their men when their cause was lost.YellowSnow said:
Pansy isn’t the right word. He was highly decorated in WW1- e.g., distinguished service cross and silver stars. And it was FDR who ordered him to evacuate Bataan.GreenRiverGatorz said:
MacArthur was a pansy who abandoned his men like Petersen did at the Rose Bowl.Doog_de_Jour said:
And McArthur did a good job…too bad he couldn’t keep it going in @DerekJohnson’s Korea.Fishpo31 said:Had to wait for Truman to get his guys in there…
BTW, McArthur’s photo with Emperor Hirohito is one of my favorite portraits for some reason. Probably because it’s super awkward…like when Petersen went on one of his recruiting home visits.
But he was a vainglorious ‘sum bitch who fucked up in Korea badly.
Instead, MacArthur fled in the dark of night and left 10,000+ of his own men to fend for themselves and endure a hellish death march at the hands of bloodthirsty Japanese. MacArthur should have appropriated the practice of sepuku from them. -
You were just looking for an excuse to post the gif… we get it, Korean women are your thing. 😆DerekJohnson said:I'm almost finished with a fascinating book about South Korea. The Koreans have a word called "jeong" that doesn't have an English equivalent. But its basically a feeling or energy that exists between people or between a person and a place. A feeling of extreme loyalty in a sense that goes beyond love and more toward devotion.
In the time during the Japanese occupation, Koreans had a widespread reputation for being slothful and lazy. When they achieved independence from Japan, that feeling of jeong really went into hyperdrive as the country banded together. When a strong Christian influence intermixed with the pre-existing Buddhist and Confucian traditions, it sparked a nationwide obsession to better themselves as a country and to be the best. When a Korean raises a fist and says the English word "fighting!", they aren't just saying cheer up or hang in there. It is actually more drawing upon the embattled history of South Korea and a reminder that they owe it not just to themselves to do their best, but they owe it to their country. Maybe JFK touched upon this kind of thing briefly when he exhorted Americans to "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
There are stories of Americans (and other nationalities) visiting Korea and losing something like a wallet, and then being astonished when a Korean found it and went to great lengths to track down the owner and return it to them. Americans think it is amazing politeness, but it is actually rooted in jeong.
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But you do have to admire the dedication to thedirtysouwfdawg said:
You were just looking for an excuse to post the gif… we get it, Korean women are your thing. 😆DerekJohnson said:I'm almost finished with a fascinating book about South Korea. The Koreans have a word called "jeong" that doesn't have an English equivalent. But its basically a feeling or energy that exists between people or between a person and a place. A feeling of extreme loyalty in a sense that goes beyond love and more toward devotion.
In the time during the Japanese occupation, Koreans had a widespread reputation for being slothful and lazy. When they achieved independence from Japan, that feeling of jeong really went into hyperdrive as the country banded together. When a strong Christian influence intermixed with the pre-existing Buddhist and Confucian traditions, it sparked a nationwide obsession to better themselves as a country and to be the best. When a Korean raises a fist and says the English word "fighting!", they aren't just saying cheer up or hang in there. It is actually more drawing upon the embattled history of South Korea and a reminder that they owe it not just to themselves to do their best, but they owe it to their country. Maybe JFK touched upon this kind of thing briefly when he exhorted Americans to "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
There are stories of Americans (and other nationalities) visiting Korea and losing something like a wallet, and then being astonished when a Korean found it and went to great lengths to track down the owner and return it to them. Americans think it is amazing politeness, but it is actually rooted in jeong.gamefetish. -
I bet his onlyfans follows are amazing and all Korean.TXDawg said:
But you do have to admire the dedication to thedirtysouwfdawg said:
You were just looking for an excuse to post the gif… we get it, Korean women are your thing. 😆DerekJohnson said:I'm almost finished with a fascinating book about South Korea. The Koreans have a word called "jeong" that doesn't have an English equivalent. But its basically a feeling or energy that exists between people or between a person and a place. A feeling of extreme loyalty in a sense that goes beyond love and more toward devotion.
In the time during the Japanese occupation, Koreans had a widespread reputation for being slothful and lazy. When they achieved independence from Japan, that feeling of jeong really went into hyperdrive as the country banded together. When a strong Christian influence intermixed with the pre-existing Buddhist and Confucian traditions, it sparked a nationwide obsession to better themselves as a country and to be the best. When a Korean raises a fist and says the English word "fighting!", they aren't just saying cheer up or hang in there. It is actually more drawing upon the embattled history of South Korea and a reminder that they owe it not just to themselves to do their best, but they owe it to their country. Maybe JFK touched upon this kind of thing briefly when he exhorted Americans to "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
There are stories of Americans (and other nationalities) visiting Korea and losing something like a wallet, and then being astonished when a Korean found it and went to great lengths to track down the owner and return it to them. Americans think it is amazing politeness, but it is actually rooted in jeong.gamefetish.
