RE: 80 years..
August 23, 2020 at 3:10 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2020 at 3:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 23, 2020 at 2:06 am)WinterHold Wrote:Argue with brian on your own time nutter.(August 22, 2020 at 11:46 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Defeating japan didn't have anything to do with saving jewish people. Japan was doing it's own dirt, and though we didn't bomb them to save the people they'd been shitting on - it was a happy consequence.
The decision to drop the bomb was the subject of immediate mythmaking at the time - but it probably boiled down to a single calculation. Would the american people accept a president who did not use a weapon he had against a reviled enemy on account of principled reservations that this enemy (and the american public) did not share.
So you admit that Brian was a troll spitting out lies just to win an argument he knows that he's wrong at?
Good, splendid.
Now we go to you; your people payed taxes and supported the most evil invention ever created on earth; then held the whole world a hostage by detonating that WMD on the head of Japan.
The idiots didn't even know how to protect it well; now the whole world developed its own versions of the weapon; lol.
That's what happens when you give a group of cowboys rifles. They kill the whole town then shoot their own feet too.
My People™ are americans, and you should take a look at the manhattan project to see how many people were involved. You might find that your people helped. I have to keep reminding myself that everything you know about western culture comes from movies, and that your source for history is likely to be just as fanciful.
Cowboys? Technocrats and politicians built and employed those weapons..and, ultimately, there was no "protecting" them, because learning how to split an atom is something that any group of people can work out on their own - and that other people were working out on their own. Even if we could strong-arm the world into not having nukes, should we? Seems like it would be a hypocritical way to flex our nukes.
Pretty sure you'd bitch about the great western satan and it's jews either way. As other posters have suggested, you should take a look into how the japanese were treating their newly conquered peoples. Our motivation was deeply personal (as a nation) - but it's difficult to argue that the defeat of japan was a bad thing that anyone should be ashamed of.
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