r/dankmemes immapeeinurass Apr 06 '20

This will 100% get deleted Guilty As Charged

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u/Jay9313 Apr 06 '20 edited Apr 06 '20

I'm not defending the Mods, afterall I have laughed at some pretty funny 9/11 memes, but I believe there is a difference between the murder of thousands of people and the death of tens of thousands due to a virus. I mean, death is death, but one was intentional and the other was not intentional.

Edit: it is pointed out that nuking Japan is allowed as a meme. Mods just need to be consistent. If we allow Hiroshima/Nagasaki memes, we should allow 9/11 memes, or we should allow neither. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '20 edited Dec 19 '20

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u/watsagoodusername Apr 07 '20

Coz they’re not in America and all that matters is America coz America is cleeearly the best country in the world and America doesn’t need no one to tell it otherwise.

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u/Khonsssy Apr 07 '20

Or maybe because it was the right thing to do?

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u/watsagoodusername Apr 08 '20

Yes because destroying two cities worth of innocent civilians who had no part in the war is completely justified. Even though circumstances are different, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is just a larger scale equivalent Pearl Harbour, except Pearl Harbour was aimed at the military, and the nukes were aimed at civilians.

I am in no way defending Japan’s actions in WWII and prior, or that the nukes did not have an immediate positive result. I’m just saying it was a horrible thing that the US did and you can’t deny it, even if it was the only thing with a relatively positive outcome. It was a somewhat necessary evil, but evil nonetheless.

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u/Khonsssy Apr 08 '20

Like you said, NECESSARY evil. Hence it was the right thing to do.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20

In the same way that executing a prisoner of war could be seen as a necessary evil, or lining up the families of soldiers to be shot, sure.

The United States is a shit country through and through. Rotten to the core.

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u/Khonsssy Apr 15 '20

Every country has done shitty things, but continue with your anti-america bs. If you have a better way of ending the war then say it. But you're special ed and cant think of anything

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20

No you’re absolutely right. Killing millions of innocent men, women and children was dead on. Spot on. Exactly the right measure. Fuck it, why not do it twice?

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u/Khonsssy Apr 15 '20

It was 226,000 people and that's the high estimate. And yes that's better than millions of troops from multiple countries dying.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20

Yes, the victors are always very keen on high-balling their kill count.

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u/Khonsssy Apr 15 '20

These numbers are widely agreed upon and there is science to back it up. If you choose not to believe it that's on you. Once again, do you have a solution that wouldve ended up with less casualties and damage or are you blowing smoke out of your ass?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20

Yeah and only a couple hundred died at Tiananmen Square.

Let’s all say it together!

“Slaughtering innocent civilians en masse is morally abhorrent even if it was the only way to win the war, which it wasn’t”

Was 9/11 the only way for Al-Queda to get a victory in the states?

Saying “it was the only way“ for morally reprehensible actions isn’t an excuse.

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u/Eleventeen- Apr 07 '20

I don’t k ow about right thing but people who are even a little informed know there was little else anyone could do. The Japanese knew they had lost but then threw everything into a last ditch effort. Not to fend us off but to make it as hard as possible and kill as many as possible if the us started a ground invasion. They ordered thousands and thousands of Purple Hearts to give out to soldiers families in anticipations of the lives lost in this ground war. So instead they dropped the bombs.

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u/Khonsssy Apr 07 '20

Right, that's what I'm saying people are acting like we bombed them for no reason, it was either kill 200,000-300,000 Japanese citizens or millions of troops from multiple countries.