• PhAzE@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Remember that the US nuked Japan in response. So I guess he’d be ok if Iran nuked the US in response?

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      10 hours ago

      They did not nuke Japan as a response to Pearl Harbor. It was a response to Japan stupidly ignoring the Potsdam Declaration when Germany had already been defeated.

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        4 hours ago

        How would you know what FDRs motivation was?

        “This is for Pearl Harbor, I’ve been waiting a long time for this”.

        It could have been his response to Pearl Harbor, so your correction is REJECTED

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          23 minutes ago

          FDR was dead before the first nuclear test dentonation ever occured…

          So I can pretty conclusively say that dropping atomic bombs on Japan was not his response for pearl harbor.

        • Policeshootout@lemmy.ca
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          51 minutes ago

          I’m going to nitpick a bit but FDR was president and made the decision to go to war with Japan over pearl harbor. Truman made the final decision to drop the nuclear weapons on Japan.

          Roosevelt had likely a plan since the Manhattan project was under his presidency but Truman inherited that.

          I think it’s mostly accepted that the USA did not nuke Japan specifically because of pearl harbor but more to force a rapid surrender. Japan was being extremely stubborn and the estimated loss of US forces was very high to continue the war.

          I also think FDR and his admin were motivated to pursue the Manhattan project in the first place due to the intel that the Nazis were also researching nuclear weapons. Nothing to do with Japan.

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          2 hours ago

          I’d just like to take a moment to say how glad I am that most US presidents didn’t have social media to tell us their thoughts 24/7.

          It’s very possible that some of them were just as dumb as their 21st-century counterparts, but at least we don’t have the tweets to prove it.

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    14 hours ago

    Bro. The people coming to his defense is mind blowing. “That’s not what he meant!”, “He didn’t mean it in a racist way!” Shut the fuck up. He knows what he’s saying. He doesn’t care. The mental gymnastics his cult does for him is crazy. Just own up to it. He’s the racist pedophile Uncle who makes bad jokes at a family gathering that you wouldn’t leave your 10 year old with.

    It is what it is.

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      12 hours ago

      It’s the same shit they repeated on the campaign trail god I got tired of being told “it’s all hyperbole” from people I know didn’t even know what the word meant

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Time for Japan to dump their 1 trillion in US bonds. That’ll be worse than Pearl Harbor for them.

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      1 hour ago

      His handlers would probably just claim that he meant “Why didn’t you warn POTUS?”

      But that doesn’t mean that every news outlet shouldn’t be pointing out that what he said, in addition to being extremely rude and undiplomatic, was utterly nonsensical.

      If you compare his performance now with videos of him from his first term, the decline is extremely obvious.

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    22 hours ago

    Its crazy how well he represents the worst of america so well. Let me tell you folks no one does it better. The best people are all saying it. Top people in fact.

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      4 hours ago

      This is what we deserve for decades of celebrity worship, it is strangely appropriate that he is our President

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      They tell me, sir… They come to me and say, mr president you do it the best. Embodying the most tremendous and bad stuff about the US. Nobody does it like you sir…

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      15 hours ago

      Japan has been known to fire/jail their PMs so she might be pushed to do something like sell-off their US bonds.