Film about ‘father of the atomic bomb’ finally opens in Japan after being delayed by outrage at ‘Barbenheimer’ memes

Archived version: https://archive.ph/8vjF7

  • @[email protected]
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    38 months ago

    Lol everytime I go on Lemmy and suggest that your nation returns my nation’s looted treasures, you guys say “see no cause they’re safer with me, your country is a shit hole” and you still to this day ignore all the atrocities you guys committed against us. Don’t try to tell me the people you nuked weren’t victims, just to avoid the reality that you guys did something so evil, and made it out to be a hero move

    • @[email protected]
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      128 months ago

      Of course they were victims, but they were victims of their imperialist government at least as much as they were victims of the US if not more so. The Japanese military led an aggressive, savage campaign. They raped and brutalized with impunity. They tortured POWs with impunity. They carried out disgusting medical experiments and vivisections with zero humanity. Perhaps you are familiar with the rape of Nanking? Unit 731?

      They sneak-attacked the US and pulled them into the war, and even after they were completely defeated they would. not. stop.

      It’s a very complicated issue. Debate will go on forever about whether or not the US nuking Japan was the “right” choice. It will never end because it is based on hypotheticals about what might have happened in an alternate timeline, and what the true motivations behind it might have been.

      One thing is very clear though: Japan’s government and their military were beat and they should have surrendered but they did not. Their military continued to operate their systematic campaign of torture and rape.

      The US had atomic bombs and responded by using them. Was it the right thing to do? Who knows. Japan’s government fucked around, repeatedly, and their citizens found out.

      Putting it all on the US is a level of cope beyond anything science could have imagined.

    • @[email protected]
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      98 months ago

      So you’d rather have twice as many die during the invasion that would have been needed for Japan to surrender without the bomb?

      Nukes are the only reason Japan wasn’t wiped out entirely via invasion.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        It’s nice when you develop entire what if scenarios after the fact, to justify your war crimes

        • Nubbly
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          58 months ago

          That isn’t a “What If”, that was literally our plan if the bomb was not developed in time.

            • Nubbly
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              68 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.

              • @[email protected]
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                18 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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      78 months ago

      That’s interesting, do you ever get that about the treasure stolen and hoarded by the Japanese occupiers and soldiers from the Chinese and Korean people?

      I recall that being a huge issue back on the early 2000’s without being addressed.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        Yeah it’s a big issue when anyone steals artifacts. But I don’t want to hear from Americans about it. That’s like a serial killer complaining about another guy committing assault.