Comment on ‘There wasn’t enough about the horror’: Hiroshima survivors react to Oppenheimer

• Nubbly_The_Moist@lemmynsfw.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Friend, Japan started that war and refused to surrender. The American people literally did not want to participate in that specific war.

  The USA is really fucking good at killing people. Japan knew this and they still decided to attack.

  Loss of civilian life is unavoidable when two countries initiate a full scale war. Does it suck to be on the losing end of that? Absolutely. Unfortunately, at the time, war consisted of bombing and ground warfare. Japan seemed to have no plans to leave the USA alone so the American hand was forced to pick between the few very bad options. All of them would result in a dramatic loss of life.

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By that logic, 9/11 was justified cause of what America did to Arabs. By your logic, when your country invaded mine without cause and killed my people, it would have been justified for me to murder you and every American

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    • brick@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep, exactly the same thing. Lmao. Your awful takes are hilarious.

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• papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Curious, what do they teach you about Japanese involvement in WW2 in your (presumably Japan’s) education system?

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The mothers and babies who were incinerated by American nukes weren’t involved

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    • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you hold the Japanese military to the same standards w.r.t. their war crimes in East Asia?

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      • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, yes I do hold them to that standard. The Japanese Army did atrocious things in China, and just like Americans, they justified it by claiming it was the lesser evil. I don’t understand why you think Japan’s war crimes are a justification for nuking a city. Especially since nobody knew about those atrocities at the time, and also because Americans have never cared about dead Chinese.

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    • brick@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who is calling it a good thing? Nobody in this thread is celebrating the bombing. They are saying it was necessary or at least justified and they are more correct than you.

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