Topic: Alliances
+Anonymous A — 6 months ago #67,426
I was just thinking about this randomly. In World War Two, the United States was enemies with Japan, Germany, and Italy, but after the war, those countries are our allies. That’s kinda weird if you think about it. I can’t think of a single time in my life where I didn’t like somebody, I won a fight, and then we were friends. If I don’t like somebody, and we fight, and I win, I still hate you. If I don’t like somebody, we fight, and I lose, I still hate you. Especially Japan though, the way they lost with the nukes and then they just never said anything about it. You’ve gotta wonder about that. Because the official story is they were all fighting because they thought the emperor was a god, and they only surrendered because the emperor told them to, except the United States didn’t punish the emperor because the emperor had nothing to do with the war and it was actually the Japanese prime ministers fault, because Japan was an absolute monarchy that had a parliament and a prime minister for some reason? I feel like there are holes in it.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 6 months ago, 3 minutes later[T] [B] #669,881
Then the whole justification for the nuke contradicts itself. The logic is that we had to nuke them because all Japanese people were willing to fight to the death. Except, if all Japanese people were willing to fight to the death then they would have just done that anyway. If you’re really not afraid of death then what difference does it make whether you die from getting shot, firebombed, or nuked? If you aren’t afraid of death, then it would really make sense that you’d be afraid of getting nuked but you wouldn’t be afraid of getting shot. Either they didn’t want to die or they didn’t care, but it can’t be that a loud explosion is more scary than dying so the Japanese people were all scared because there was a big bang and that made them change their mind but the prospect of dying they were just like, "Yeah whatever, I don’t wanna live anyway."
·Anonymous A (OP) — 6 months ago, 7 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #669,883
Then if you think about it the whole concept of destroying a city being something that scares people to the point they’ll accept surrendering even though they weren’t willing to surrender in the face of death sounds pretty absurd. I mean think about it, when that one town in Hawaii burned randomly all of the sudden back in 2023, unless you were actually in Lahaina, you wouldn’t have really noticed anything and it wouldn’t really have affected you at all. Like if you were in Chicago for example, and Russia nuked New York, you wouldn’t notice or have any emotions about it or be in any danger at all until somebody told you. It doesn’t make sense that destroying a city would scare people. Because I mean think about it, school shootings happen all the time. Nobody hears about a school shooting and thinks, "Oh wow that’s scary what if I get shot?" Because it’s not you that’s getting shot so it doesn’t matter. And Hiroshima wasn’t the first city to get destroyed in that war. So why would it have been any different?
·Anonymous A (OP) — 6 months ago, 5 minutes later, 16 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #669,884
Or like when an Islamic terrorist attack happens for example. Nobody is actually scared by that unless they’re in the immediate area. Everybody else either gets bored of it a week later when the media stops talking about it or racists will use it as an excuse to push some narrative about foreigners. But you can tell they were just itching to do that anyway and they don’t give a shit about any of the people who died because they never say a damn thing about the victims. It’s not human nature to be shocked by people dying if you don’t know them.