marxistbarbie:

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battlships:

marxistbarbie:

ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.

“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole

i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok 

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that: 

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56 

- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:

“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380

- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441

- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:

“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71

- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source

- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:

“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here 

- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:

“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source

- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:

“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145

So to recap: 

1. A lot of American generals were against using the bomb as they felt it served an empty purpose.
2. Those who agreed with its usage completely disagreed with dropping them on cities.
3. Truman went ahead and had them detonated in two highly populated civilian cities anyway. Two cities that had remained mostly untouched by regular bombings throughout the war precisely bc of their lack of value to the Japanese war effort.  

Draw your own conclusions. 

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“We’re Not So Different, You And I” - Part 59

(check out the other parts here)

What do these four have in common?

Enemies with a wolf

Correct!

• Little Red Riding Hood is preyed on by the Big Bad Wolf
• Puss from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is hunted by Death, taking the form of an anthropomorphic wolf
• Zant from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is trying to stop Link, who in this game can take the form of a wolf
• Professor Marmalade from The Bad Guys is enemies with Mr. Wolf, who is an anthropomorphic wolf (as his name implies)

Next:

What do these four have in common?

They have names with repetition?

Correct!

• Jeong Jeong from Avatar
• Moto Moto from Madagascar
• Señor Senior Sr. from Kim Possible
  
• Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo from Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
  

Next:

What do these four have in common?

Destruction of the Moon

Correct!

• Clara from Doctor Who destroyed the moon by letting a creature hatch out of it
• Korosensei from Assassination Classroom blue a giant chunk out of the moon, making it a permanent crescent
• Dr. Eggman from Sonic used his space station’s laser to blow up the moon
• Piccolo from Dragon Ball used a chi attack to destroy the moon to stop Gohan’s Saiyan transformation

Next:

What do these four have in common?

Famous Tumblr Posts

Correct!

• Do you like the color of the sky?
• Are fedoras really that bad?
• I like your shoelaces
• spiders georg is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Last one:

What do these four have in common?

they all have the initials PW ?

Correct!

• Pharrell Williams
• Pendleton Ward
• Patrick Warbutron
• Paul Walker

That’s all, folks! (…or is it? can you tell what the hidden theme is?)

Oh my gosh it is moon moon

Wolf

Double name

Moon

Meme

First and last letter of your name

Goddammit moon moon!

Correct!

More specifically P.W were the letters that formed “Moon Moon” in the original post

Now that’s all, folks!

Thank you so much to @pikachu-says-peekaboo​ for coming up with the brilliant theme and helping me out with the questions.

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lordofseagulls:

Lil Nas X should not be allowed to be this funny

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ot3:

ot3:

it’s been long enough i’m making an executive decision that we all need to go reread the tgi fridays infinite mozzarella sticks article

still just as good as i remember it

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toastyglow:

I often think I could be such a good writer if I were better at writing

Unfortunately, the only way to improve your writing is to write.

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sofigrace:

The odds of Chetney being Orym’s father are low but never zero.

candela888:

Cheek-kissing as a form of greeting throughout the world (and number of kisses given)

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Detainees and advocates decry 'horrific' conditions at Louisiana ICE detention center

People held at the Winn Correctional Center are subjected to undrinkable water, the constant threat of solitary confinement and limited acce

NBC News

An ICE detention center for migrants in Louisiana that has been the subject of years of complaints about inadequate medical care, filthy accommodations and mistreatment of detainees has failed to remedy the issues in the year since immigration officials said the facility would improve living conditions and scale back the number of people who can be housed there, advocates and asylum-seekers said.

Three people who are or were recently detained at the Winn Correctional Center in rural Winn Parish, as well as advocates and lawyers who have been to the site and have clients there, said by phone that those detained there are subjected to undrinkable water, the constant threat of solitary confinement and limited access to doctors, even in critical situations. 

“This is an extremely problematic facility,” said Sofia Casini, the director of monitoring and community advocacy at Freedom for Immigrants, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It has been for a very long time, and we have not seen improvements.”

As of the week of June 12, more than 1,110 people were detained at Winn, a major detention center operated by a private company for male immigrants who entered the U.S. at its southern border. The figure is up 53% from September, according to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The population has climbed and the poor conditions have persisted despite ICE’s assurances last year that it would reduce the facility’s “guaranteed minimum” number of beds and renovate it to address housing concerns, advocates said.

“There’s a lot of horrific things that have gone down and that continue to go down at that facility but also just that are endemic to the entire New Orleans ICE field office,” said Mich González, the associate director of the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has represented dozens of people detained at the facility, which has been housing migrants since 2019, González said.

“Nothing has changed about the conditions of this facility,” said González, adding that “horrific things” were happening on his last visit in April. “People with open wounds not getting the treatment that they need. People on crutches being told that they don’t have a humanitarian interest in being released even though they’re not a danger to anyone and they have people waiting for them at home. People detained for upwards of a year unnecessarily.”

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