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Explanation: After some three years of European powers brutally bludgeoning, bayoneting, machine-gunning, and using chemical weapons on each other in WW1, the Americans entered the war. We, of course, immediately indulged in the same bludgeoning, bayoneting, machine-gunning, and chemical weapons as every else did, but we also brought a large quantity of pump-action shotguns to the fight, with brutal effect in the tight confines of the trenches.
The German Empire lodged a formal complaint that the use of shotguns was against the laws of war due to the inhumane nature of the weapon. "Lol", said everyone else, "lmao"
Why did I feel a need to have a look at the comments though? ๐ญ
Ah, Youtube comment section lunatics. They've not changed in five years, that's for sure...
Online comment sections are like modern day barrooms. You'll always find someone just blurting out the weirdest bullshit.
But in the comment sections, that bullshit is amplified to a worldwide audience, and in an audience of that size, there will always be multiple lunatics like that. And for some reason they will always find each other.
99% of those comments are either state propaganda bots or corporate marketing bots anyway.