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Old 09-22-2019, 09:02 PM   #3531 (permalink)
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To be fair, if America didn't use it first then Japan or Germany might have done it instead. It's not like taking America out of the picture would have stopped the development of nuclear weapons or that, say, Hitler or someone else might not have used one.

One of the reasons nukes aren't flying left and right is precisely because Hiroshima was so damn horrific. But I'm pretty sure someone was gonna get nuked no matter how you slice it.
But it turns out it was us. That’s that. Woulda coulda shoulda be damned.
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Old 09-22-2019, 09:03 PM   #3532 (permalink)
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I'm pretty sure I know why Japan doesn't have nukes, but I imagine all those countries who have no ability to be any kind of top dog while also being the homeboys of a nuclear nation find no need to deal with that **** and don't want the scary **** that goes along with it. Basically Sweden is our beta male and smiles with our semen dripping out of their mouth. I'm honestly dubious that European democratic socialism isn't based on benefiting off of American imperialism so that they don't have to spend the military dollars on being imperialist themselves.
I’ll give you all that.
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Old 09-22-2019, 09:13 PM   #3533 (permalink)
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So, OH, America isn't the evil empire. America is the face of an even vaster evil empire that pretends we're the entirety of the evil empire so the rest of them can sleep at night while benefiting off of our oppression.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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They have absolutely counted on the American empire to defend them.
Defend implies we're talking about a defensive action.
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So, OH, America isn't the evil empire. America is the face of an even vaster evil empire that pretends we're the entirety of the evil empire so the rest of them can sleep at night while benefiting off of our oppression.
In a certain frame of mind I can see that as a significant part of the story.
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Defend implies we're talking about a defensive action.
No. Most defense never rises to the level of action, but is rather just strategic positioning which deters anyone from attacking.
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Old 09-22-2019, 09:32 PM   #3537 (permalink)
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In a certain frame of mind I can see that as a significant part of the story.
I'm not saying don't hate America. That's perfectly valid. I'm just saying that concentrating on America is like Hitler saying that German Jews were an isolated threat.
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I'm not saying don't hate America. That's perfectly valid. I'm just saying that concentrating on America is like German Jews saying that Hitler was an isolated threat.
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I mean same idea so yeah. Check your PMs. I'm about that **** hard.
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