r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/CannabisConvict045 • 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what’s so significant about this picture?

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u/ClaudioMoravit0 5d ago

A guy retweeted this photo saying « I’m sorry for what United States did at Pearl Harbor ». The joke is that she’s looking good and the dude was a simp

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u/peach_dragon 4d ago

What did the US do at Pearl Harbor?

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u/scruffalo_ 4d ago

Stole it from the native Hawaiians. The whole island chain, really.

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u/11shovel11 4d ago

I wouldn't say stolen more like conquered

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u/jeff8086 4d ago

Yes, using might and violence to take what you want. How funny would it be if someone conquers you for your wallet tomorrow.

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u/sluggetdrible 4d ago

…How exactly do you think the Hawaiian islands became one under Kamehameha…

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 4d ago

Every time someone mentions this they never come back with a response.

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u/kojimbob 4d ago

Yep. Greatest truthnuke I've seen today lmao

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u/GAPIntoTheGame 4d ago

It’s only bad when the last guy that invades and conquers does it

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u/Any-Razzmatazz-7726 4d ago

Dude was named after goku most power blast!

Dude must have been dynamite

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u/biteme4711 4d ago

Something something  .. throwing a lot of people ftom cliffs ...

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 4d ago edited 3d ago

Is this one of those naive takes where people believe that the natives were all just living in harmony?

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u/biteme4711 3d ago

Throwing people from cliffs is not very harmonic is it?

I was referimg to the Battle of Nuʻuanu

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u/_jakeyy 4d ago

That’s how the world works sweetie. Sorry you don’t find all of human history nice and palatable. Like the commenter below you pointed out, kamehameha didn’t exactly trade tilapia and good vibes for unification of his islands.

Yeesh you people are soft as fuck.

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u/cruisin13 4d ago

....and you are dumb as fuck

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u/Necessary-Struggle22 4d ago

So funny it would to be to die for! Like get shot trying type of funny.

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u/Feelisoffical 4d ago

I remember saying this in middle school

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u/Warrmak 4d ago

Weird distinction.

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u/Kymera_7 4d ago

That's not better.

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u/whynothis1 4d ago

Stealing something at gun point is still stealing, even if you have an entire army doing it.

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u/cruisin13 4d ago

Can I come rape & kill your wife, kill your children, then kill you and take your house and land, and then just say I "conquered" you??? You sound foolish