https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1506095895577870341?s=21

  • TechnologyMoth [comrade/them,any]
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    3 years ago

    I also enjoy how we have been brainwashed to rationalize the US firebombing and nuking civilian cities after an attack on a non-mainland military base.

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The US bombing campaign of Japan in WW2 killed many times the number of people that both atomic bombs killed. No one even talks about it.

      • TechnologyMoth [comrade/them,any]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah its wild. Thats why I included firebombs. Like imagine if the double standard didnt exist. US takes out a military installation in Iraq, they reapond by dropping two nukes on NYC and LA. Unimaginable because how does that make america save the world again like superman.

      • Tapirs10 [undecided,she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah. Without mad, nukes are just another kind of bomb. There wasn't anything uniquely evil about Hiroshima versus conventional saturation bombing