*unconditional* surrender. the japanese leadership were already asking for peace, they just refused to surrender unconditionally (and even after the bombs & russian declaration of war, they only offered to accept surrender terms if they got to keep the emperor)
the japanese leadership are absolutely guilty of continuing a hopeless war, to be clear. but they don't take the full blame for the actions of the allies. a lot of civilians died needlessly because of the shortcomings of the leadership on both sides
to everyone saying japan didn't deserve to dictate terms - i agree! but they kept their emperor anyway, didn't they. all those war crimes, and the US blows up some schools and hospitals as retribution and then lets the emperor off the hook. great job
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obvious point but worth repeating every so often: the right-wing stance on lgbt+ rights exposes their claimed love of individual liberty as a lie
shouldn’t the right - with their claimed love of individualism and hate of ‘big government’ - fully support the right for each individual to present as they wish, to love who they wish, to act as they want with any other consenting individuals, free of government interference?
what we actually see, of course, are conservatives using the big governments they claim to oppose to limit the freedom of individuals. enforcing traditional power structures and behaviors takes precedence over any supposed love of freedom
musk's basic problem is that twitter was not being run by lefty sjw types surpressing free speech, it was being run by business people who were trying to make money. with the same aim he'll end up trial-and-erroring his way back to their exact policies
a series of "oh, so that's why they were doing it like that" moments
i mean the actual process would involve a lot more whining and pretending the new policy is different to the old policy ofc. but this in spirit
i hope the guy kiwi farms doxed thinking he was me never got any shit over it
they watched graduation videos from my university until they found a guy called shaun they reckoned looked like me. he didn't. i didn't even go to my graduation
that place had a weird combination of putting in an extreme amount of effort in order to find something intimidating and zero effort into making sure it is accurate. they were so wildly off the mark with everything wrt me that i'd never trust anything from there about anyone else
the heroine of rowling's new book has an awkward interaction with a man asking her out, and then later, bemoaning her lack of social skills, worries that he "probably thinks I’m special needs"
yes i'm reading it. so what
i would advise not reading it unless hundreds of pages of fake internet chatroom drama sounds like a good time to you
that series dropped so many balls at the end. harry not becoming the dark arts teacher was such a missed open goal. similar with zero of the slytherin students swapping sides. none of them! lol. all evil sorry
even snape swaps sides not because of any developed sense of ethics or justice or whatever he just has a weirdo incel crush on a teenager that he maintains into adulthood. what's brave about that, it's just bizarre