Another one is that the “no surrender” mentality was a direct result of the terms of the Potsdam Declaration which demanded “unconditional surrender” from Japan. Japan knew they had lost, they were just hoping to fight for the SPECIFIC surrender condition of the preservation of the Imperial line (aka, let the Emporer still be the Emporer, preserve the family).
It should be pointed out that this is what ended up happening, so whoopsie daisy on the whole nuke thing
Well, kinda, since the parties swapped roles in the Southern Strategy as a response to the civil rights movements, back then the democrats were the overtly racist ones. So the GOP would still exist but it would look nothing like the “modern” (hah) version.
The number of examples I have seen of people being told to shut up about their lived experiences with sexual abuse in the past 24 hours on this platform is deeply disturbing....
Though honestly, without keyboard knowledge, I would have assumed changing Belgium’s name for something else is a white supremacist dogwhistle. This is 4chan afterall.
Lord Cameron said while he would not support a major ground offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah, the UK would not copy US plans to stop some arms sales....
Explosions will fuck you up harder underwater though won’t they? Or is that when the explosion happens underwater? I feel like there was a MythBusters episode on this
President Biden laid it out for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel long before letting the public know. In a conversation bristling with tension on Feb. 11, the president warned the prime minister against a major assault on the Gaza city of Rafah — and suggested that continued U.S. support would depend on how Israel...
Tens of thousands of Palestinians were fleeing Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, on Saturday, after Israeli warnings to evacuate before an imminent military assault that will open a bloody new phase of the seven-month-long conflict....
Fun fact about asparagus that I didn’t fact check: Only some people have bad smelling pee after eating asparagus and only some people can smell the bad pee at all. There was science done on this.
Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
Noice
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The number of examples I have seen of people being told to shut up about their lived experiences with sexual abuse in the past 24 hours on this platform is deeply disturbing....
Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president calls Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’...
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r*ddit
UK ban on selling arms to Israel would strengthen Hamas, says Cameron (www.bbc.com)
Lord Cameron said while he would not support a major ground offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah, the UK would not copy US plans to stop some arms sales....
Chilling (mander.xyz)
Stellaris director insists “ethical use of AI is very important to us” after generating voices in latest DLC (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
maybe the woke was inside us all along (lemmy.cafe)
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The Long, Tortured Road to Biden’s Clash With Netanyahu Over Gaza War (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden laid it out for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel long before letting the public know. In a conversation bristling with tension on Feb. 11, the president warned the prime minister against a major assault on the Gaza city of Rafah — and suggested that continued U.S. support would depend on how Israel...
Terrified families flee Rafah as Israel set to open all-out assault (www.theguardian.com)
Tens of thousands of Palestinians were fleeing Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, on Saturday, after Israeli warnings to evacuate before an imminent military assault that will open a bloody new phase of the seven-month-long conflict....
physics ≠ magic (lemmy.ca)
Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs (www.theverge.com)
Shaq (i.imgur.com)
UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid (apnews.com)
That special milk (sh.itjust.works)
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two schools (www.cnn.com)