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oldpainless posted:I don't know if thats true. It's probably not I mean it's a goddam museum so they probably got their facts straight. I just wanted to be part of the conversation cuz it's been a rough day and I needed some human contact this was a big mistake forget i said everything ok 
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May 31, 2016 14:58
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High school hatefollow is at it again. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that weeaboo Trumpers are a thing that exists. 
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May 31, 2016 16:22
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I don't get it. This man loves LeBron James so much that he literally wishes he had given birth to him. Sometimes you just have to discipline bad children through nuclear annihilation. Henchman of Santa has a new favorite as of 16:25 on May 31, 2016 |
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May 31, 2016 16:23
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"I am not ok with militant dictators having nuclear weapons. I would however give them to Trump in a heartbeat."
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May 31, 2016 16:28
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"They would have fought to the last person if something awful wasn't done." We did it y'all. We stopped a war!
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May 31, 2016 16:30
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chaoticgeek posted:Not exactly what you wanted, but the sentiment of UGH WHY DO SHEEPLE CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THINGS OTHER THAN THIS THING THAT I REALLY CARE ABOUT is the same: Matt Walsh is an enormous piece of poo poo and every hot piece he writes is basically 'why care about X when n babies were aborted?'
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Hecuba posted:High school hatefollow is at it again. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that weeaboo Trumpers are a thing that exists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXfk5lpLew
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May 31, 2016 16:47
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Possibly the best sentence ever uttered on TV.
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May 31, 2016 17:00
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I love the woman's reaction.
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May 31, 2016 17:12
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You read it here, Something Awful ended WWII.
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May 31, 2016 17:13
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I wish this was still true and no one but those guys wanted to vote for Trump.That way he would not have a serious shot at being elected.
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May 31, 2016 17:20
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Wasn't Japan in the process of/close to surrendering when the bombs were dropped? I've heard that mentioned a couple of times, but my knowledge of the Pacific theatre is very limited.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Wasn't Japan in the process of/close to surrendering when the bombs were dropped? I've heard that mentioned a couple of times, but my knowledge of the Pacific theatre is very limited. They actually turned down surrendering a week or two before the bombs dropped.
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May 31, 2016 18:08
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Many Japanese wanted the war to end and knew they weren't going to win. The Allies had the Potsdam Declaration which was total and unconditional surrender which the emperor didn't agree to. So then the Allies dropped the two bombs after which Japan surrendered.
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oldpainless posted:Many Japanese wanted the war to end and knew they weren't going to win. The Allies had the Potsdam Declaration which was total and unconditional surrender which the emperor didn't agree to. So then the Allies dropped the two bombs after which Japan surrendered. If memory serves it's a bit more complicated than that; the emperor was mostly just a figurehead. The military had the real power. A ton of high-ranking military people who held a lot of influence thought that it was literally impossible for Japan to lose. When it came to the people who could make the decision to surrender actually discussing actual surrender put one at risk of assassination; it was disturbingly common among this group to suggest that Japan should fight to the last man no matter what the cost. Even so by the time the bombs were dropped Japan had already had its defense utterly ruined. There were discussions amounting to "we're hosed, let's pack it in" but people wanting to continue the war anyway. Apparently there were also plots to assassinate the emperor and remove the position entirely because he was starting to think "you know we should probably surrender like...real soon."
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Is it just me, or are "ignoring the Holocaust" and "bombing the Japanese" two weird examples to put next to each other? It faults the USA for participating and also not participating in WWII.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:If memory serves it's a bit more complicated than that; the emperor was mostly just a figurehead. The military had the real power. A ton of high-ranking military people who held a lot of influence thought that it was literally impossible for Japan to lose. When it came to the people who could make the decision to surrender actually discussing actual surrender put one at risk of assassination; it was disturbingly common among this group to suggest that Japan should fight to the last man no matter what the cost. Yeah, even when unconditional surrender was on the table, there was a near-coup by the Army to stop it. They got as far as taking over the Emperor's palace and NHK before finally being convinced to stand down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident
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Didn't we modify the whole unconditional surrender part after the bombs were dropped? Part of the debate is whether that would have made a difference before the bombs were dropped. On the other hand, Japan got nuked and still acted all, "war crimes are so subjective." Germany was a truly defeated nation after WW2. I'm not entirely sure Japan would have been had we not gone nuclear.
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May 31, 2016 19:43
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trapped mouse posted:Is it just me, or are "ignoring the Holocaust" and "bombing the Japanese" two weird examples to put next to each other? It faults the USA for participating and also not participating in WWII. The people who conflate the two usually believe that Japan would have peacefully surrendered without an invasion or bombing and that everyone should have seen "obvious signs" that Jews were being genocided. As usual, the truth is more complicated than that. The ambiguity of Japanese surrender has already been discussed, but the true magnitude of the Holocaust wasn't really known until GIs started stumbling upon concentration camps. Even the local Jews spent much of the war knowing that they were being taken but not knowing that mass executions were occurring. Much like the Pearl Harbor conspiracy theories, they rely on hindsight and information that the historical people lacked at the time.
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May 31, 2016 19:44
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The article is about firefighters coming over from South Africa to help fight the fires in Fort McMurray, Canada (which have pretty much destroyed a city and are really loving things up). It's a pretty good feel good story about people from another part of the world coming to help fight a natural disaster. Most of the comments on Facebook about this have been positive and thankful. Please notice I said most.   I figured I would give the idiot the colour black because that seems to be his favourite comment, and at least people were calling him out.
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May 31, 2016 20:11
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Is Notch a good example of a Libertarian or would you just call him a FYGM idiot?
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"My post has nothing to do with race. Blacks in South Africa are a very dangerous group." How can someone even manage to seriously put those two statements right next to each other 
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May 31, 2016 20:23
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oldpainless posted:Many Japanese wanted the war to end and knew they weren't going to win. The Allies had the Potsdam Declaration which was total and unconditional surrender which the emperor didn't agree to. So then the Allies dropped the two bombs after which Japan surrendered. The bombs being dropped were the first steps in the Cold War. America wanted to let Russia, who was going to start operations against Japan shortly, know that they were willing and able to use an atomic bomb on a nation. There was also the added bonus of finally convincing Japan to surrender days before Russia would have been able to claim some sort of cooperative role in the Pacific. The bombs weren't dropped to "end the war" the bombs were dropped to avoid the next war.
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RareAcumen posted:Is Notch a good example of a Libertarian or would you just call him a FYGM idiot? I don't recall him being a libertarian. I thought he was just a coward.
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 Despite numerous headlines how OBUMMER wasn't going to apologize for dropping the A bombs the AMERICAN PATRIOTS know ODUMBER can only get his rocks off by secretly apologizing for tragic circumstances 70 years ago. Also lol baracks a muslim. This was posted shortly before the kid was tagged shirtless chugging a bottle of Jameson. What a great memorial day tribute.
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RareAcumen posted:Is Notch a good example of a Libertarian or would you just call him a FYGM idiot? His deal with microsoft is a great example of FYGM. Though he was still sad because even after pocketing ALL the money for himself and NONE for the people who were actually working on the thing, he didn't get to keep their friendship. You really can't have it all  Grem posted:Last page firefighter guy was brought up but I more fondly remember Titanic guy. May they both rest in peace. Who was Titanic guy?
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nerdz posted:His deal with microsoft is a great example of FYGM. Though he was still sad because even after pocketing ALL the money for himself and NONE for the people who were actually working on the thing, he didn't get to keep their friendship. You really can't have it all It's the loving liberals that are destroying America. Not the immigrants, or the terrorists, not the government, and not Trump. They have become these giant bigots who can't tolerate the slightest bit of criticism without resorting to violence. They're children who like to throw a fit about anything that doesn't go their way, and at the same time they expect you to go along with all their bullshit.
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Someone shared this on Facebook with me.  A picture of a print out of a Facebook meme. I was going to print the picture and then fax it to my email and then post the PDF here. Decided against it.
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RareAcumen posted:Is Notch a good example of a Libertarian or would you just call him a FYGM idiot? Notch isn't a libertarian, he's just the latest example of money and attention amplifying a person's character traits. Donald Trump will do literally whatever it takes to get his face on TV, Elon Musk thinks technology is cool and doesn't care so much about people, Notch is a self-aggrandizing, paranoid misogynist. If you want a prominent "Got Mine" libertarian, try Peter Thiel, who apparently spends his time and billions of PayPal dollars these days bankrolling lawsuits against people who are mean to him.
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RareAcumen posted:Is Notch a good example of a Libertarian or would you just call him a FYGM idiot? The latter. If someone is a Libertarian, they'll let you know.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:It's the loving liberals that are destroying America. Not the immigrants, or the terrorists, not the government, and not Trump. They have become these giant bigots who can't tolerate the slightest bit of criticism without resorting to violence. They're children who like to throw a fit about anything that doesn't go their way, and at the same time they expect you to go along with all their bullshit. gently caress Lottery of Babyloned again
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Immolat1on posted:
Hey be happy with your right wing idiot meme bingo.
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Kajeesus posted:The latter. If someone is a Libertarian, they'll let you know. Okay, gotcha. Great responses all around.
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nerdz posted:Who was Titanic guy? A Facebook aquaintence of goon Old Memes. He was quirky, spouted off randomly about odd things and had an irrational love of all things Titanic. The books, history, movie, Celene Dion, etc. It was adorable and a breath of fresh air in a thread full of the worst humans imaginable.
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If God actually cared about abortion he would stop them. Unless of course he is building a fetal army in preparation for the final battle of good and evil.
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Besesoth posted:Notch is a self-aggrandizing, paranoid misogynist. God drat this description fits so well after his "stop using mansplaining #cuntfused" twitter meltdown.
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FreudianSlippers posted:If God actually cared about abortion he would stop them. Unless of course he is building a fetal army in preparation for the final battle of good and evil. Head crabs?
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