yes “america bad” is a valid political stance

  • @NotSoCoolWhip
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    -261 year ago

    We didn’t nuke Japan for fun. We warned civilians by dropping pamphlets. They had just weaponized the bubonic plague on china. When the bombs were dropped, they had planned on doing the same biological attack on San Francisco in two weeks.

    The Japanese were arguably worse than the Nazis, but their evils during the war were erased because they were such a convenient trading partner. Not even their own citizens learn about their atrocities, especially in the way that Germany does.

    • @chuckleslord
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      181 year ago

      Neither of the atomic bombs had warnings, those were pamphlets for the fire bombings of Tokyo. The goal was to spread fear of what we could do to the whole world. We used Japan as a fucked up example.

    • 新星 [he/him/CPC bot]
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      1 year ago

      The Japanese were arguably worse than the Nazis

      Many things they did were problematic, but I don’t remember Japan doing a Holocaust

      Edit: Thanks for the info, comrades.

      • @NotSoCoolWhip
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        31 year ago

        What about the invasion of mainland China? Rape of Nanking? What about the vivisection of living test subjects? Manchurian testing?

        They may not have done a holocaust, but they did a lot worse shit in other areas. The medical testing was the worst to learn about. The worst thing is they got away with it, not admitting to any of it until later. Japanese leadership completely skirted any type of Nuremberg-type consequences.