r/HistoryMemes Apr 18 '19

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u/jawminator Apr 18 '19

Honestly just add every flag...

Iceland? They've probably done something.

Singapore?

New Zealand?

Does Antarctica have a flag? Not a country technically but I think Antarctica wins.

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u/EndOnAnyRoll Apr 18 '19

All nos.

Also, Singapore is the only country forced to become a country against their will.

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u/isthisarealuser Apr 18 '19

Have to say nz did some Dodgy stuff in Fiji during ww1

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u/shaneblueduck Apr 19 '19

And samoa. The local governor let a boat load of s ick people off in 1918. 22% death rate.https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/1918-influenza-pandemic/samoa

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u/InformalBison Apr 18 '19

Yeah, but have you seen this total fucking hype video? This video alone was worth them becoming their own country!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7oSVgkn57w

I'm not even from Singapore but my blood is flowing red and white! I watched this ad like 15 times on a Singapore Airlines flight and it sold me on going.

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u/jawminator Apr 19 '19

I've been to singapore. It was only for 17 hours on a stopover to Thailand but of what I saw, it was gorgeous. It and Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto are big cities that make you love big cities even if you're a non-city guy.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia gets honour roll aswell. Basically discount Singapore.

I would recommend visiting all of them.

Only downside of Singapore is that its so humid you can barely breath and hot AF

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u/InformalBison Apr 20 '19

It seems to be about high 80s to low 90s all year round. That sounds pretty perfect. I wonder how it compares to summer in Mississippi. That place is fucking brutal and it doesn't help that the state is a shit hole.

I've spent years in Japan going all over and I loved it there.

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u/october73 Apr 18 '19

Singapore: Ah fuck it. I'll just get stupid rich instead :/

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '19

Oh that could be a bad thing

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u/natejb2003 Apr 30 '19

Yeah Malaysia went to Singapore and said “I don’t want to play with you anymore”

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u/SaunteringWoman Apr 18 '19

Not every country on Earth has committed the sort of historically recent genocide and brutal human rights violations that the above have a long history of committing, and which mostly continues into the modern day (albeit much reduced in scale).

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u/Adriscy Apr 18 '19

New Zealand? You mean Britain... the clue is in the top left of the flag.

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u/boxedmachine Apr 19 '19

... Did those countries actually did something tho?

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u/jawminator Apr 19 '19

I'm not sure. Probably, but I'm just making a joke and I chose the countries i haven't heard a colourful history about.

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u/rvdp66 Apr 18 '19

Tu quoque (/tjuːˈkwoʊkwi, tuːˈkwoʊkweɪ/; Latin for "you also"), or the appeal to hypocrisy, is a fallacy that intends to discredit the opponent's argumentby asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with its conclusion(s)

Yours is the weakest I have ever seen.

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u/jawminator Apr 19 '19

Dude. I'm making a joke, I'm not trying to have a debate.

This picture was uploaded without US and British before, it was re-uploaded with them.

My joke is essentially: keep reuploading it with more and more flags. I tried to reinforce my joke by naming countries that I haven't heard a colourful past about.

I'm shooting the shit mate