• manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com
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        1 year ago

        The US dropped two nukes on Japan, invaded Vietnam for no reason, instigated coups in a variety of sovereign countries and committed countless other atrocities to sustain the military industrial complex. That’s a lot more than some 3000 deaths

        • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          The same thing can be said about Japan. A lot more people died by the hands of the Japanese Empire during WW2 than those two nukes did.

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            1 year ago

            Still, dropped it on two civilian targets.

            Imagine Russia taking out LA and NYC; you guys would never let anyone forget that no matter what

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                1 year ago

                Agreed, not a good thing. Abu Ghraib ring any bells?

                See? We can do this all day long but in the end the fact is that these “tactical nukes” weren’t used to take out parts of the command structure, but to vaporise not one but two major civilian population centres.

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                  Agreed, not a good thing. Abu Ghraib ring any bells?

                  That’s not even fucking close.

                  but in the end the fact is that these “tactical nukes” weren’t used to take out parts of the command structure,

                  Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both chosen for their military and industrial importance.

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                    1 year ago

                    Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both chosen for their military and industrial importance.

                    I could probably say the same for San Fransisco if it was chosen.

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            1 year ago

            Who the actual fuck was saying that?

            They were saying that compared to the damage the US has inflicted on other countries, including innocent civilian populations, the damage done by the 9/11 attacks is much smaller

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      I don’t think you can really compare terrorist acts on a tit for tat basis. Two wrongs don’t make a right. The last 20 years has proved it didn’t really achieve much good for anyone ever, just a lot of bullshit.

      Like were the people who died in 9/11 directly responsible for the horrible shit their government did? No.

      Why was the attack not on a political building anyway?

      • Sassy@lemm.ee
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        The Pentagon is a government building. Everyone seems to focus on the towers and forgets American Airlines Flight 77.

        Regardless, the point of terrorism is to cause terror, not necessarily to kill people who “deserve” it.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, good, whataboutism for terrorist attacks by Saudi extremists on unambiguous civilian targets. Guess this is left praxis now.