LilB0kChoy
@LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 2 hours ago:
The grand jury, for the record here, is a bunch of randomly selected people - not the cops, or a prosecutor, or anything like that. Its a jury. And what this jury decides is not guilt, but whether or not there is enough evidence that supports the charges to bring it to a trial.
No part explicitly but this whole paragraph ignores the fact that the prosecutor presents their case and influences the juries opinion. No defense or alternative argument is made.
The expression “a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich” is a nod to the fact that, often, a grand jury votes in the direction the prosecutor wants them to.
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 2 hours ago:
“A grand jury could indict a ham sandwich.”
The prosecutor, very much, can influence a grand jury’s decision on whether to indict.
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 2 days ago:
The meme literally says “boomers” in it. You paint with a pretty broad brush with those generalizations.
I’m American and an old millennial and when I think of the Vietnam War all I feel is shame. We for sure “lost” in so many senses but we’ve “lost” just about every armed conflict we’ve been involved in since WWII.
America always seems to make the worst of a bad situation and escalate things. Really we should have only kept our bases in Europe and Asia long enough for them to recover from WWII and then begun transitioning back to local allies.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 5 days ago:
Obviously a guy that thinks being as dishonest as it is possible to get away with is perfectly good business.
That’s the secret to “earning” billions of dollars.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 5 days ago:
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 6 days ago:
This right here. The US was isolationist prior to WWII but then got attacked and drawn in to active war.
Since the mainland of US was untouched by war directly, and industry boomed post depression and during the war they came out of it better off than Europe, which had a lot of rebuilding to do.
As a result of the war and the need for defense they established bases all across the globe and for the last 80-90 years as the political system grew more corrupt the increase of American hegemony followed.
- Comment on Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial 1 week ago:
Did you know, John Deere never saw a tractor.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 week ago:
Yes! I loved playing this game on our old 486.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
Truth.
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 1 week ago:
I think you misunderstood. I wasn’t talking about the people who claim to have some European origin but the practice in general in the US of acknowledging ancestral ethnic heritage as part of where you’re from.
Descendants of slaves generally have very little knowledge about the origin of their ancestors.
This might be true now, but 200 years ago people were brought here from other countries unwillingly and had children here. If we’re were forcefully taken to another country and then had children at some point I would talk to them about the people left behind and where I came from.
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 1 week ago:
I wonder if some of it doesn’t come from the people who came to America through forced immigration (I.e. the slave trade).
I think it makes sense for people brought unwillingly to America to hold on to that ethnic heritage and culture pork hard to instill it in their children, even if they were born in America.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
The original question was should the US have entered in 1939. That word implies a moral perspective.
Should verb
- used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness, typically when criticizing someone’s actions.
I can assure you, since it was my question, that should was used in reference to obligation or duty. So while it can be referencing correctness (morality), it wasn’t.
The US was isolationist, but should it have been. Should any country be? (Draw your own historical parallels to today).
Assuming your asking about correctness then that would depend on the person answering’s opinion and when they are answering from. Again, it is easy to say now, with access to all the information post-event but, clearly, in 1939 the reigning belief of the US population seems to have been “no”.
America shouldn’t be the world police, but it should help resource a world police force. And to be fair, the US did provide a huge amount of non military resources to Europe throughout WWII.
Here we agree, mostly. America also contributed 407,316 lives of its soldiers and 671,278 injuries to others.
I myself wonder if American hegemony would exist today if they had entered the war in 1939.
A large part of both the rise of America as a world power and world police role came about initially because of the war.
Between a form of legal profiteering in lend/lease, the huge industry boom during and post-war and the fact that Europe faced so much destruction and needed a lot of rebuilding, America’s rise came about. Then, rather quickly after I’d say, the perversion of their role began into what it is today.
In my opinion, America should have worked to withdraw over time and let their allies take over the “policing” role in their areas of concern, or actually allow NATO to work as intended.
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 2 weeks ago:
To me it just looks like a cook top on top of a washing machine as though limitedon space.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Will do!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Solid suggestion. Thanks!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ok, thanks!
- Comment on IRS tax filing software released to the people as free software 2 weeks ago:
Did the government claim it was accurate to the law? I’m guessing just providing code doesn’t open the government to liability. That would fall on anyone who implemented it. I always assumed that’s why for-cost software has Ts&Cs that indemnify them unless you pay extra for the protection.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t hear anything else on this. Please let them know it’s there’s if they want it but if I don’t hear back today I’ll be reaching out to the maker space another user suggested.
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for posting this! Saves me from waiting until I see it in my All feed collection to block it.
- Comment on lemmy.blahaj.zone has setup a piefed instance. 2 weeks ago:
I see what you mean on the growing healthy communities bit.
That plus private votes, nah, I’m good.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, I’ll keep them in mind! I’d maybe take it there myself. I went to college in Mankato and have been meaning to take a weekend drive back there.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ok. I updated the post. I’ll give it until tomorrow and if there’s a lot of interest in a local pickup I’ll have to work out a lottery system.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
The US should have been part of the League of Nations. It was cowardly not to have been.
Maybe they should, Wilson certainly wanted
them to. Whether it was “cowardly” is entirely opinion based.
The US did not join the League of Nations primarily due to strong opposition within the Senate and a prevailing isolationist sentiment in the country. Concerns about the League’s potential impact on US sovereignty and the entangling of the US in foreign conflicts, particularly in Europe, fueled this opposition.
If it were moral for England and France to enter into war, then why would it not moral for the US?
Looking back at it now or in 1939? I’m not arguing morality because that’s the problem. Knowing what the world knows today it’s easy to say it was moral to declare war, but if the Allies were looking for help at the start of the war, why did they not share information about the concentration camps to spur others into action? Maybe because nobody knew in the beginning?
Taking a 1939 perspective? I would say that if the prevailing sentiment among Americans was isolationism, is it not moral for the elected representatives to work in the interests of their constituency.
We’re talking about people in a country half a world away, that is only a few years removed from the Great Depression, with the memory of fighting another war in Europe fresh in their memories.
Remember, in the 1930s people in the US had virtually no televisions or 24/7 tv news, only about 1/3 of homes had telephones. The world is very different now than it was 90 years ago.
Your opinion might be that the US “sat and watched for 820 days” but that’s rubbish. It’s not supported by the facts or history.
An American could have the opinion that WWII occurred because Neville Chamberlain, the UK, France and the rest of the League failed to appropriately address the threat prior to 1939. Guess what? The facts and history don’t bear that out either.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
No, he’s not. Your quote is from a radio broadcast on September 3, 1939 where Chamberlain was speaking about England and France declaring war.
Note, this is also the same Chamberlain who made a speech in 1938 after signing the Munich agreement where he said, “My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time….”; The speech would later seal Chamberlain’s reputation as the chief architect of appeasement..
What I’m gathering is that everyone here seems to think the US had some moral obligation to declare war earlier, which is easy to say in retrospect but history doesn’t support that idea when viewed in situ.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
That explains the UK and France since France and the United Kingdom were the two dominant players in world affairs and in League of Nations affairs, and usually were in agreement.
However, the US was not part of the League of Nations, had not been attacked, had adopted an isolationist approach to foreign policy between WW1 and WW2 and had already fought in one European war. There was no UN, no NATO, no mutual defense agreements like exist today because WW2 was the catalyst for many of those things.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” – attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
The person I responded to made a claim that everyone else in the world was fighting in WWII but not the US.
Thats simply not true.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
No?
During the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, the USS Arizona (BB-39) and the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) were sunk. The Arizona, a battleship, exploded and sank after a bomb hit a powder magazine, resulting in the deaths of over 1,177 officers and crewmen. The Oklahoma was sunk by multiple torpedoes, causing it to capsize and resulting in the loss of 429 crew members.
That sure seems like an attack on America.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
Spain, whose civil war had just ended at the beginning of World War II, sent troops to the Russian front to help German armed forces. I don’t think they ever declared war.
Nazis purchased critical war material from neutral countries using Swiss francs gained in exchange for gold looted by the Nazis from occupied countries and from individual victims of concentration camps. Switzerland continued to trade until the end of the war in 1945.
The Phillipines was attacked 9 hours after Pearl Harbor on 12/7 and did not declare war but was drawn into it as a result of the attack. The US declared war on 12/8 and had war declared back on 12/11.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
It’s plenty articulate but wrong on both accounts. It’s hypocrisy to criticize (wrongly in OPs case) the US for not involving themselves fast enough in one breath and then criticize the US for being “world police” in the next.
Especially considering what the landscape might have looked like had the US remained on its isolationist track and not joined the war.
As for articulating why, with what they knew in 1939, the US should have declared war; you typed a lot but failed at the task. You say fascism like it carried the weight in 1939 that it does today. Fascism rose to prominence in early-20th-century Europe. Hmm, wonder who that was.
Swing and a miss!
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
More false information. Let’s see who entered WWII at, or after December, 1941.
- Phillipines
- China
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Dominican Republic
- Honduras
- Cuba
- El Salvador
- Costo Rica
- Brazil
- Bolivia
- Mexico
Sure looks like most of the western hemisphere didn’t join until after the war came to their part of the world.
I wonder who remained neutral?
- Turkey
- Spain
- Afghanistan
- Argentina
- Yemen
- Saudi Arabia
- Sweden
- Portugal
- Switzerlamd
- Ireland
- Uriguay
- Lithuania
- Latvia
- Estonia
- Bhutan
- Iceland
- Andorra
- Liechtenstein
- Monaco
- San Marino
- Vatican City
Any other lies you’d like to tell?