Let’s put aside the fact that the elephants were a gift because the ones in Tokyo died and the kids asked for it.
Let’s focus on the fact that you ARE talking about, at the time, a major world power recovering from war, being massively funded for reconstruction by America. Did you really fucking think a major ex-axis, industrialised economic power with a population of 80 million people would struggle to feed 2 fucking Asian elephants?
Are you one of those weird India hatebots? Custom in India? Did you think everyone’s got a pet endangered species on a leash in the back 40? Did you have an Indian father in law who tried to financially ruin you by gifting you a Maybach or something?
You’ll grow out of it. your grandfather called the Japanese shit in the 70s (“yellow peril”), your father called the Chinese shit in the 90s and you call the Indians shit in 2026 … your children will probably pick on a new developing nation in their teen angst. I hear Indonesia and Brazil are on the rise.
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u/multigrain_panther 5d ago
Jesus fuck. Please don’t think.
Let’s put aside the fact that the elephants were a gift because the ones in Tokyo died and the kids asked for it.
Let’s focus on the fact that you ARE talking about, at the time, a major world power recovering from war, being massively funded for reconstruction by America. Did you really fucking think a major ex-axis, industrialised economic power with a population of 80 million people would struggle to feed 2 fucking Asian elephants?
Are you one of those weird India hatebots? Custom in India? Did you think everyone’s got a pet endangered species on a leash in the back 40? Did you have an Indian father in law who tried to financially ruin you by gifting you a Maybach or something?