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  1. 45 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    FWIW, I listened to portions of the birthright citizenship case and when they were not discussing injunctions, at least 6, and possibly 7 judges were extremely skeptical of the government’s position. 

    Would you say they had a furrowed brow?

    23 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

    Just like napoleon, he would take it away and put it on himself

    Trump's tiny little hands would have dropped the crown.

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  2. 20 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Big Government at its finest.  Since they won that victory, they won't stop - we will get feature creep at a massive level. They'll redefine what an "adult" site is, which could easily rope in a lot of online forums, etc. and probably try to expand the scope to mentions of marijuana, etc.

    "To protect the children".

    If I'm a VPN provider

    Anthony Adams Slow Clap GIF

    Victoria's Secret should fire up the old print catalog and charge $1 for a monthly subscription.  They'd rake it in.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    if we're talking sheer size, in modern history, it's kursk:

    2.7 MILLION men

    9868 tanks

    38832 guns (artillery)

    5000+ planes

    My issue with throwing Kursk in here is that the overall battle was 6 weeks.  

    Pearl Harbor and Midway are better comparisons.  Yes, the logistics lead up to both took time but, especially at Pearl Harbor, the action was intense and brief.  

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  4. 1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

    I completely understand the skepticism surrounding the MacArthur memo and Japan's willingness to accept virtually the same terms of surrender that eventually were imposed after Hiroshima, but the more important point that's still relevant today is that it was well understood by all sides that Japan had lost the war long, long before Hiroshima. There was no strategic justification for the civilian atrocities we inflicted and we're teaching a whitewashed version of history when we allow people to believe that the war was going to rage on without the atomic bombs. We are proud of it when we should be ashamed.

    And you just completely moved the goal posts.  No one is going to dispute that the Japanese were going to lose in 1944 and early 1945. 

    We were going to win by that point.  The issue was how many more Japanese (plus Brits, Indians, Aussies, Kiwis, Chinese, Americans, etc) would have died.  

     

     

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  5. To Chainsaw's point, it was my understanding that these early 1945 peace overtures were unofficial communications by Japanese government backbenchers. They were initiated through the Soviet Union and were not sanctioned official Japanese government offers.  And that's if they even happened at all because other than Trohan's memo, there is zero historical record of these attempts.  

    If you go back and look at the disorganization and chaos in their government after Hiroshima was nuked, the Japanese still had a hard-core contingent on the Supreme War Council that wanted to continue fighting.   

    Here's an interesting counterpoint to what Chainsaw has been trying to sell.  

    https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2022/05/06/did-the-japanese-offer-to-surrender-before-hiroshima-part-2/

    It's a fairly long read but well worth it for WWII nerds.  

    The author of this article seems to think that the Trohan memorandum was a far-right, pro-MacArthur attempt to lionize Dugout Doug, blame FDR for prolonging the war to let the Soviets join and, ultimately,  the "loss" of China in 1949 to the communists.  

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  6. 7 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Isn't he supposed to be in a NATO meeting right now?

    There are a lot of things he's supposed to be doing.  And even more that he shouldnt.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    I'm not. I'm ready for Trump to claim total success and then to fuck right off.

    Then Fox and OAN can report that he's the bestest POTUS ever.  Him reporting a ceasefire while bombs go off can't really be ignored.

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