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Film about ‘father of the atomic bomb’ finally opens in Japan after being delayed by outrage at ‘Barbenheimer’ memes

Archived version: https://archive.ph/8vjF7

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are you a willing and eager subject to the current genocide being funded with your taxpayer dollars?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No, and unlike your bitch ass I've been tear gassed to prove it.

Fortunately, we can rest assured that the vast majority of Japanese citizens supported the war. Not only were are they as a people still largely unrepentant, we know what happened to the people who did resist:

They were killed or shipped to Korea as slaves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Your comment in "‘There wasn’t enough about the horror’: Hiroshima survivors react to Oppenheimer" was removed from [email protected].
Reason: Rule 3 - Respectful Communication.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So you acknowledge that public dissent had violent repercussions, but that somehow equates that all civilians were willing supporters and valid targets? That's an amazing display of doublethink. Paired with the ad hominem, you've shown yourself completely impotent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Something tells me you spend a lot less of your time worrying about what the Red Army did marching through Poland than what a bomb did to fascist collaborators.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Strawman to finish things off nice!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Are you under the impression you've been making logically rigorous arguments?