I don't think they realize just how hard that image goes. The only way it could go harder is if it said on the bottom right "Only in America: September 2001".
i cropped the text out and sent this pic to my gf with zero context
Dorothy is just a regular crank that likes Japanese baseball and hates atomic bombs for probably obvious reasons. So barbenheimer got on their nerves.
Ah, I see. Hexbear is pretty much my only social media, aside from a Facebook account I look at quarterly or so, so I've missed a lot of whatever has been going on with barbenheimer. I can see how that could come off as taking an atrocity too lightly though.
Apparently Oppenheimer doesn't mention or discuss the effect of dropping nuclear bombs on the actual human beings the nukes were dropped on. There just aren't any Japanese people in the story. And some people think that sticking the Barbie and Oppenheimer stuff is poking fun at and/or disrespectful of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they're understandably upset.
What they don't seem to realize is that a lot of Americans are so deep in to a hole of nihilism, fatalism, and irony that we didn't even realize this was supposed to make us feel bad.
As someone who did watch the movie, Oppenheimer does mention the effect of the bombs, and it's even shown as a pretty big deal to the guy. Like yeah, it shows him helping pick out the targets for the nukes, which we all know he did in real life as well, and shortly afterwards he is shown a slideshow of the effects of the bombs and the damage it did to the cities that got hit. Obviously the movie is going to mostly focus on the psychological effects they had on the guy who made them, since the entire movie is about him. Hell, I felt that it indirectly statted by the movie that Oppenheimer become a vocal critic of both President Truman and the atomic program of the US precisely because he did see those pictures of the devastation brought on by his work on the bomb.
Japanese people are mad that the official Barbie twitter account tweeted a bunch of Barbenheimer memes. The atomic bombings occupy a cultural space not too different from the Holocaust in the West, so to them Barbenheimer tracks like a Barbie x Schindlers List cross over.
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And I'm great at doing stuff
I didn't even realize this was supposed to be a 'Take that' I thought it was just normal weird shitposting.
I think the original was a Japanese meme expressing outrage at Barbenheimer. Too bad the meme creator didn't do Barbie x Pearl Harbor lol.
