Japan condemned US President Donald Trump for comparing recent US strikes on Iran to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

Outrage? I doubt it, given what the orange twat has done before now that passed with nary a word.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I suspect that is their strategy (if you could call it that): boggle the populations minds and then do what you want.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's exactly the strategy. He's basically a human "Denial of Service" attack on our collective psyche.

    Constant output of garbage information we're forced to evaluate, until we're overwhelmed, overloaded, and shut down from being mired in so much sheer volume of stupidity.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And the news cycle can't keep up or spend appropriate amounts of time/outrage on the things that are criminal, abhorrent and hurting people.
    Throw a bunch of stupid shit to the media, let them feast. Sneak around while they are busy and get the truely hurtful stuff into law (or just skip the law part, and do it).

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    At this point it's kind of entertaining to see him keep raising the stupidity bar. Absolutely fucking terrifying too, but still also kinda entertaining.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Is this just cope because he really wants to drop a nuke but his handlers won't let him?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It could also be cope due to him wanting to be remembered for something big. The atomic bombings were massive, and will stand throughout history as the first, and so far (and hopefully), the only time nuclear weapons were used on civillians. Sure it may have stopped the war, and that may be what Donald is equating it to, however I do feel he wants to be remembered throughout history for something good. His ego needs it, he needs it. No-one else has plastered their name over buildings and coveted gold and other gaudy decor options. Nothing more than a narcissistic moron who wants to be remembered throughout all of time as the greatest person to have ever lived.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Does he not know that using the atom bombs to kill civilians was kind of considered a bit of a no-no?

    The justification that "it ended the war early, actually 'saving' lives" is moot, killing civilians to save soldiers, is pretty much strongly considered the opposite of the point. It is a war crime.

    Not having been charged with it, isn't something you want to go poking at. Everyone has kind of loosely agreed to leave it in the past. But that doesn't have to stay the case if you make people upset enough like that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    During his feature length interview in The Fog of War, MacNamara said explicitly that if they had lost the war, he and his team would have been tried for war crimes. He cries a bit at one point while describing the firebombing of wooden cities, at how it was worse than the atomic bombs they dropped.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that is actually one of the other points people sometimes use to refute the atom bombs being a war crime. That they didn't kill as many civilians as firebombs or carpet bombing... I know you aren't, just brought it to mind. But yeah, that only makes those other types of bombs also war crimes. Hehe.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Surely this will win him the Nobel Peace Prize!

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