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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The effects of the Communist revolution and the US response to it were so powerful that they went back in time by 20 years to start WW2?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've read this like five times and I have no idea what the heck you're trying to get at.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The person said Cuba being under US sanctions is what caused the Pacific side of WWII. What they were TRYING to say is that Cuba has been under sanctions, and that OTHER, unrelated sanctions were the cause of the Pacific side of WWII; but they used indefinite pronouns and therefor had a confusing sentence.

The joke is about the unintended interpretation of the sentence.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Ah. So the joke is he's bad at reading.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Maynarkh said that Cuba has been under US sanctions, and also that US sanctions started the Japan-US conflict during WWII. Gravitas has misinterpreted it, intentionally or not, for it to mean that US sanctions on Cuba started the Japan-US war.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The user he responded to said the sanctions affected WW2 when the sanction happened much later.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Sanctions on Japan. That was extremely obvious in context. I thought they had a point beyond being unable to read.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

back in time by 20 years to start WW2

Boy here is posting from all the way back in 1959….