• @[email protected]
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    310 months 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
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      1110 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months 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

          • @[email protected]
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            510 months 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.

            • PugJesus
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              110 months 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.

              • @[email protected]
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                210 months 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.

                • PugJesus
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                  410 months ago

                  You absolutely could. San Fran was a major logistics hub during the Second World War.

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        10 months 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