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chainsaw

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  1. I think it's one of those twitter portals
  2. pics not loading
  3. Without Samoan converts BYU is gonna drop down to 6-Man
  4. Do you think we'll at least get to see Arch lead the Horns to back to back undefeated seasons and national titles from the concentration camps?
  5. Don't even joke about this
  6. Or we've been lying about the full capacity range of the stealth bombers.
  7. No, if you scroll back you'll see my original point was that the nukes were unnecessary. I have no reason to doubt the truth of the MacArthur memo, but that doesn't matter to my original point.
  8. Lopez might be too old but yes
  9. Drafting bigs is always a gamble because so many simply can't adjust to the NBA. Much smarter to sign a proven commodity than trying to develop a rookie.
  10. You clearly haven't been following the Blake Lively thread
  11. He has no credibility on the world stage and I think the fracture in his base is still there. Disastrous consequences
  12. I completely understand the skepticism surrounding the MacArthur memo and Japan's willingness to accept virtually the same terms of surrender that eventually were imposed after Hiroshima, but the more important point that's still relevant today is that it was well understood by all sides that Japan had lost the war long, long before Hiroshima. There was no strategic justification for the civilian atrocities we inflicted and we're teaching a whitewashed version of history when we allow people to believe that the war was going to rage on without the atomic bombs. We are proud of it when we should be ashamed.
  13. Am I out of touch? No, it's the voters who are wrong.
  14. You're right about this. The consensus among the military brass at that time was Japan was already at the table willing to cede its sovereignty to the US. The reason was our non-nuclear firebombings were already completely effective in getting Japan to bend the knee, and yes people completely overlook how much destruction our non-nuclear strikes were capable of and did inflict in Tokyo. The nukes were completely gratuitous killings, for no reason other than to intimidate the Soviets. haven't seen as much press about it
  15. that explains it
  16. So that was worth killing 200,000 innocents?
  17. Then why were the same terms accepted after the bombs were dropped?
  18. Because he wanted to kill 200,000 civilians instead of end the war. Right? That's my point. It was completely unnecessary to end the war.
  19. This blogger seems pretty argumentative and not particularly scholarly, but even setting aside his tone and motivations his analysis is focused on discrediting two historians without addressing the others such as Dennis Wainstock and Edwin Hoyt, cited in this article from Mark Weber. It was pretty common knowledge that Japan was willing to accept any terms of surrender including the exact same terms that were accepted after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To bring us full circle, it was the onslaughts from the B-29s that truly won this war for the Allied Powers. Everything after that was garbage time and Japan was already completely desperate to cease hostilities and had conveyed via McArthur to FDR the same terms that were ultimately accepted after the nukes were used. https://ihr.org/journal/v16n3p-4_Weber.html
  20. Hard to accept for some but it's true. We are the only country ever to use nuclear weapons, and it was all completely unnecessary. Cope all you want, but it's true.
  21. I thought republicans were the party of religious freedom?
  22. Internet seems to think the Spurs have had an outstanding draft so I guess he's pretty good
  23. I'd be pretty pissed if I was a lottery pick and got stashed to the G-League
  24. I wonder if he'll contribute
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