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Since like half of the comments are saying this was racist can anyone explain how?
Genuinely what the fuck are you guys on about. I would understand if she was an ethnically Japanese leader/diplomat from Brazil or something but what. So obsessed with race that you forgot Japan is a country?
It’s a stupid deflection but it’s not racist. The thought process is pretty obvious ‘Why didn’t you tell Japan before the attack’ -> ‘To keep the element of surprise’ uhh Japan + Surprise attack -> ‘Who know’s better than Japan about the value of stealth for a surprise attack, like pearl harbor’.
He just doesn’t even have the capacity to coherently make the bad comparison. He also completely whiffed the cadence of the joke he was trying to make causing it to come out even weirder. It’s a brain in decline trying to fall in to patterns that it used to be able to somewhat execute on but is now just grasping at straws.
*thing bad, so anything negative about thing must be correct and must not be questioned. I hate lemmy sometimes.
Yeah people make fun of ww2 germany all the time and it’s totally fine
You disagree with his comment being racist? Well since you’re not with us, you’re against us! There’s no middle ground, no nuance and no discourse in this community!
Guess his joke bombed.
This guy needs to be put down like a rabid dog.
Not according to republicans and the GOP that controls them.
Does anyone know the Japanese response yet? Or are they staying quiet?
You will not be pleased.
Thanks.
Yeah, non statement as per MO.
Remember that the US nuked Japan in response. So I guess he’d be ok if Iran nuked the US in response?
They also put a tooon of Japanese people in camps
Same thing they’re starting to do to immigrants, trans people, and dissenters
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.
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
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.
What about zombie FDR. He probably made Trump attack Iran too
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.
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.
There have been plenty of dumb in the esteemed position of POTUS, but I would like to make the brave claim that Trump is on an entirely different level intellectually compared to most, if not all, previous presidents.
Remember that the US nuked Japan in response.
Twice.
I don’t see what the problem is.
Which is why you have no close friends.
My close friends are Neo Nazis
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.
I’m noticing more discourse on Lemmy. I’m not saying I want Lemmy to be a hive mind. But there’s clearly more and more comments seemingly just giving really “wrong side of history” takes.
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
Something something narcissist’s prayer.
Ehh not suprised with how stupid donald is.
anything to keep epstein files from the news, by having TRUMP being a clown
Time for Japan to dump their 1 trillion in US bonds. That’ll be worse than Pearl Harbor for them.
Japan is like the rest of the world, they bought into the idea US was too big to fail. You can’t just “dump” $1T in bonds.
BRICS replacing USD is like how we declare every year the year of the linux desktop lol.
When USD goes down, its gonna bring down the world with it
lol.Alternatively we can transition to the Eurodollar, which some people trade with already.
yeah that was super hilarious never has a double lol been more appropriate you should be a comedian
lol
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It was the only one that survived along with lmao
RIP roflcopter
Haha
The dementia really reduces the inhibitions, doesn’t it?
The USA has never felt shame for dropping two nuclear bombs on civilians without warning. Which is why it is likely to happen in the Middle East.
shame? the usa is fucking proud of it.
I can’t think of a bigger war crime in human history.
ITT: Lemmites Letting the mask slip
People can find it funny for several reasons, some may be laughing at the pure stupidity of comparing the two. I would say we have seen few countries Trump considers allies. And Russia, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia seem to be the only 3 re-occuring allies he seems to consider.
And Russia, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia
Which one of these is Israel?
Touche, I’m not sure I can tell the difference between Israel and Florida at the moment, Israel gets more benefits than Florida does though
And Argentina lmao
Stop making vertical territories. Just stop it. If it’s a long skinny shape on a map, it shouldn’t exist.
All countries should be hexagon shaped for mathematical elegance!
I mean, out of all the heinous fascistic shit Trump has done, this is probably among the least egregious. Plus as a dark comedy enjoyer, I can appreciate this on a “who the fuck starts a conversation like that; I just sat down” sort of level.
If this is what makes you clutch your pearls then you are going to audibly gasp at all the other shit Trump has said.
This is pretty harmless, especially by his standards.
I don’t see a problem laughing at this.
Nobody is mentioning he said why didn’t you warn me.
I caught that too and was flabbergasted.
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