someone: so what do you think is the solution to homelessness?
me, socialist:
Let homeless people occupy peopleless homes, build houses for use rather than exchange, 3D print comfortable houses in a day, convert corporate skyscrapers into housing and commercial malls into publicly-accessible community centers with living commons and entertainment
When you say it to people and they break
“But the money? … we can’t just? But, Money? We can’t just… help… people? Can we? The Money. We can’t just help people? Like that? We can’t just? Money?”
people who are like “I’m not against the decision to remove a good chunk of the income a lot of sex workers make from this website” are like so fucking wild because of course banning pedophiles and nazis is literally impossible to do without banning “female-presenting nipples” (however the fuck that ends up being interpreted) lmao.
They are not going to ban the pedophiles and Nazis because they don’t tag their posts in a way that Tumblr’s censorship will pick up. They make random insider codes for everything to hide it. The pornbots don’t tag anything. Meanwhile the Trans and sex worker blogs and the NSFW art blogs tag everything to make it obvious that they don’t want minors viewing their stuff and they will be the ones punished for it.
ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.
Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.
“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole
i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok
“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” – page 52-56
– Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:
“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” – page 380
– Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:
“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” – page 441
– General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:
“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” – page 70-71
– On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:
“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” – online source
– The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:
“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” – diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here
– Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:
“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” – online source
– Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:
“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” – page 145
So to recap:
A lot of American generals were against using the bomb as they felt it served an empty purpose.
Those who agreed with its usage completely disagreed with dropping them on cities.
Truman went ahead and had them detonated in two highly populated civilian cities anyway. Two cities that had remained mostly untouched by regular bombings throughout the war precisely bc of their lack of value to the Japanese war effort.
Draw your own conclusions.
I hope y’all know that this is common knowledge to everyone of every other country
Whenever someone says “you clearly only criticize rich people because you’re jealous” it tells me that they have no idea what it’s like to actually care about other people in ways that don’t immediately benefit themselves.
The only reason I’d ever want a billion dollars, like any normal person, is to help other people with it, which would expend almost all of it pretty quickly. That’s why all existing billionaires are selfish, destructive parasites: good people don’t become or remain that rich.
Seriously. I look at the accoutrements of the ultra rich and I’m like. I have no desire for a private plane? A golden toilet? Gold leaf covered hot wings? Ten cars? What the Hell would I do with all of that garbage? I don’t want staff in my house because it’s too big for me to care for, the lack of privacy would kill me. Who in their right mind would be jealous of all that clutter? It’s like being jealous of a hoarder.
Some people just go through their lives obsessed with status and image and badly want other people to be impressed by what they can afford. I think when they show off their golden-plated toilets and it goes viral on social media they really don’t get that almost all regular people are just disgusted and incredulous at such an embarrassing waste. They assume the attention is envy and awe at how amazing they are.
The petty bitchy fights that go on between these three must be absolutely incredible.
And then there’s Jello.
Jello is probably like that one friend of that one girl that always gets into catfights and is hated because she is always around her friend which causes people to associate her with bad stuff lol
Even though it’s probably because jello is adored by omurice which is something that doesn’t sit right orange juice, and mango pudding automatically hates everyone that prettier than her
Shino/Dawn 