The point is that Nagasaki and Hiroshima weren’t exceptional, but rather typical of US bombing strategies against civilian populations that the US has continued to use into the modern day.
IIRC the damage inflicted by the atomic bombings weren’t especially noteworthy compared to the rest of the bombing campaign, and it was more a way to test out their new toys. If the nukes hadn’t been used but conventional bombing had continued, it would likely have had a similar result. This video by Shaun lays out a pretty compelling case that the Japanese surrender was due to the Soviet declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria.
This is all ignoring of course that despite the insistence of unconditional surrender, the Americans accepted surrender with conditions and allowed the emperor to continue to hold his titles anyway. There’s definitely something to be said about taking maximalist positions just to make a point even when they don’t actually care about several of the goals that make up those positions.
This is apparently not the original version, but in the context in which it’s used on hexbear, this is the full image:
Personally I think a gradual transition towards statelessness is necessary, because people are currently used to living in a state and are generally quite skeptical of sudden rapid change, even if it would be purely positive. Even if the capitalists were eliminated tomorrow and their propaganda networks shut down immediately, the general populace would still be infected by their brainworms for at least a generation.
Those dastardly russians keep putting sticks in the spokes of my bikes. They even make it look like I’m the one doing it!
President Xi, the people of Occupied Cascadia yearn for freedom, please send Chengdu J-20 stealth fighters.
Getting the plaintext script from the Internet and making a local theater production out of it? Now THAT’S peak carbon neutrality!
Ah but what about when you factor in all of the commuting of the actors and staff (each in their own truck, the only PATRIOTIC transportation method) plus the emissions from the production of the costumes and sets, not to mention keeping the theatre running. No, I’m afraid the only neutral form of entertainment are rogue puppet shows and one-person bands.
They’re fighting for the freedom to commit genocide! What, do you hate freedom!?
I was just listening to an old podcast ep () from 2021 IIRC talking about the TRIPS waiver, and how they “didn’t want to be too cynical” about Biden doing a whole song and dance which would amount to nothing. Just googled it and sure enough, we’re still fucking blocking it. The american government must be destroyed.
I guess “The US will very likely end the world in nuclear hellfire” doesn’t roll of the tongue as well.
You forgot Women’s Beach Volleyball.
She may not be a villain but she’s a liberal for not killing Batman and the billionaire right now.
Eh, it’d be a good step in the right direction if they did stack the court (though term limits and a code of conduct are laughable half-measures at best), but I have my doubts the dems will do anything. If they sincerely believed that the american right wanted to end democracy and put dem politicians in camps (to be clear, they’re fine with other people being in camps), one would assume they’d be using that newfound presidential immunity to start drone striking “threats to the republic”.
Edit: oh and obviously whatever tools the dems use, the republicans will use more ruthlessly as they care far, far less about optics.
They should really just have communism give you +20 infamy with capitalist nations or something instead of trying to nerf stuff like nationalization.
Hopefully all this stress gives him a stroke!
It’s only free trade if you’re trading with the FREEST COUNTRY ON EARTH 🦅🦅🦅
I think they have one solar system “done” (not really) out of 100.
The end of Israel as an apartheid genocidal settler-colonial state. You can look to South Africa for an example.