On our way to Tikal with my little explorer, testing out the route for the extreme adventures I'm planning. One day we'll meet up in Guatemala for some #NostrFreaks fun! 🌴🌄🕵️‍♂️

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Hindsight is 2020. This isn't rewriting history but learning from it so we don't commit the same crimes and avoid the evils of the past.

We needed to respond, but we also needed to have avoided evil acts, and attacking innocents is one of the worst crimes. If we instead attacked a military compound, the blood of the innocents would be on the hands of the Japanese military because they put them in harm's way.

Why is it that gaming for 12 hours straight is perceived as worse than binge watching tv for 12 hours straight?

I’d argue that gaming is much more mentally challenging. Thoughts?

Yes, I don't agree with it all, but that's an alert of how bad democracy is, and we're living its results.

"God forbid that we should ever be so miserable as to sink into a Republic.” 6 One of the Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, perhaps the most gifted of them all, regretted that the United States could not become a monarchy. Van Buren saw in Hamilton a monarchist, 7 certainly a conviction well grounded in facts 8 in view of Hamilton’s speeches at the Federal Convention in 1787 and 1788 in New York. And Francis Lieber very rightly pointed out that the Declaration of Independence is not really an antimonarchical document. 9 The sentence, “A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people” merely condemns George III but, at the same time, voices great respect for the royal office. The average American today would be surprised to hear the term “ruler of a free people” in which he sees a contradictio in adjecto. But in formulations like these we perceive a few aspects of Jefferson’s highly contradictory character and mind. He does stand near the mainstream of American leftist thought and deserved Hamilton’s severe strictures. 10 But then he was also the man who, in a letter to Mann Page, spoke about the “swinish multitudes.” 11 And Gouverneur Morris, on the extreme right, wrote to Nathanael Green in 1781, “I will go farther, I have no hope that our Union can subsist except in the form of an absolute monarchy.”

Of the American founders, Alexander Hamil-

ton was a monarchist. Likewise, the Governor of Pennsylvania, Robert Morris, had

strong monarchist leanings. George Washington expressed his profound distaste of

democracy in a letter of September 30,1798, to James McHenry. John Adams was

convinced that every society grows aristocrats as inevitably as a field of corn will

grow some large ears and some small. In a letter to John Taylor he insisted, like Plato

and Aristotle, that democracy would ultimately evolve into despotism, and in a

letter to Jefferson he declared that "democracy will envy all, contend with all, en-

deavor to pull down all, and when by chance it happens to get the upper hand for a

short time, it will be revengeful, bloody and cruel." James Madison, in a letter to

Jared Parks, complained of the difficulty "of protecting the rights of property

against the spirit of democracy." And even Thomas Jefferson, probably the most

"democratic" of the Founders, confessed in a letter to John Adams that he consid-

ered

the natural aristocracy .. . as the most precious gift of nature, for the

instruction, the trusts and governments of society. And indeed, it would

have been inconsistent in creation to have formed men for the social state,

and not have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns

of society. May we not even say that that form of government is best, which

provides most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the

offices of government?

Characterizing the general attitude of the founders, then, the most appropriate pro-

nouncement is that of John Randolph of Roanoke: "I am an aristocrat: I love liberty, I

hate equality."

It was more about destroying their culture and incompatible values with democracy. Democracy is evil.

Bombing civilians is factually a war crime. Whatever Japan's government did, the people who were vaporized were not responsible for it. By this logic, the are about 330 million Americans who deserve to be nuked because of what DC does.

Love is a gift… 💜

A more humane way to end the war IMO was to drop an atomic bomb on a military position or naval port which would have little civilian casualties, and then tell the Japanese that Tokyo would be destroyed next if they did not surrender that perhaps would have ended the war.

But it is very easy in 2023 to talk about what leaders in 1945 should have done. In August 1945 countries had just had more than a half decade of destroying each others cities and civilian populations already, and Truman was not going to risk the deaths of 100s of thousands of his troops to invade Japan. The Emperor would likely fought to the last man if not for the atomic bomb, based on historians judgement of the man.

Like the Nazis did to the Brits?

It's easy to criticize these actions when us civilians have been isolated from the effects of war for so long.

Yes, Nukes are pure evil and should never be used in war again. But they also served as an effective deterrent against civilian attacks, creating the relatively peaceful world we take for granted today.

History should be remembered to learn from our past mistakes, not assign blame through the lens of today.

Bombing a massive amount of innocent people because the rulers over them did bad things is pure evil. Go to bed and stop arguing such a preposterous thesis. You’re now muted.

Stop looking for excuses for genocide

So if your neighbor was a jerk, I can slap you. When you get mad at me, I say, “But your neighbor was a jerk so what I did wasn’t wrong.” <- totally sound logic…

The vast majority of the people murdered in the bombing were innocent. It was the city with the largest Christian population, and one of the major anti-war cities in Japan.

They're not responsible for the crimes of others just because they lived under the same government, have similar genetics, or any other such nonsense.

Nasal swab, i.e. they gather stuff from your nose to check for covid

Is it normal that airports in the US have people ready to swab you upon arrival? I told them no and they got mad at me but then they just moved on to the next person🤷‍♂️ Weird encounter..