• Enzy@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Well the bomb was retaliation for the Bataan Death March.

    Either way, no side is innocent.

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      Yeah, I’m so glad the civilians in Hiroshima got punished for participating in war crimes

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        4 days ago

        I feel like it’s how my gut flora aren’t responsible for my actions or anything but will suffer my choices and others’ choices involving me.

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      The bomb is one of the many crime against humanity US have commited and have not been punished for. Hiroshima museum is a testimony of this crime.

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        Promptly swept under the rug and censored so the country doesn’t get a bad rep

        … oh wait

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      It’s not clear that this affected the decision to drop the bombs let alone the sole reasoning. Frankly, there was little justifiable strategic argument for use of them at that point in the war aside from as a form of intimidation against the Soviet Union. More likely the US would have dropped the bombs regardless and it was used as a justification after the fact: “the Japanese were barbaric, so this justifies our barbarism!”