• manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    1 year ago

    The US dropped two nukes on Japan, invaded Vietnam for no reason, instigated coups in a variety of sovereign countries and committed countless other atrocities to sustain the military industrial complex. That’s a lot more than some 3000 deaths

    • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The same thing can be said about Japan. A lot more people died by the hands of the Japanese Empire during WW2 than those two nukes did.

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        1 year ago

        Still, dropped it on two civilian targets.

        Imagine Russia taking out LA and NYC; you guys would never let anyone forget that no matter what

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            1 year ago

            Agreed, not a good thing. Abu Ghraib ring any bells?

            See? We can do this all day long but in the end the fact is that these “tactical nukes” weren’t used to take out parts of the command structure, but to vaporise not one but two major civilian population centres.

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              1 year ago

              Agreed, not a good thing. Abu Ghraib ring any bells?

              That’s not even fucking close.

              but in the end the fact is that these “tactical nukes” weren’t used to take out parts of the command structure,

              Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both chosen for their military and industrial importance.

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                1 year ago

                Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both chosen for their military and industrial importance.

                I could probably say the same for San Fransisco if it was chosen.

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                    1 year ago

                    And we’d never hear the end of it, yet it’s no big deal when done abroad.

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        1 year ago

        Who the actual fuck was saying that?

        They were saying that compared to the damage the US has inflicted on other countries, including innocent civilian populations, the damage done by the 9/11 attacks is much smaller