• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    The list is so long. I picked the nukes because they tested the nukes, they knew what they would do. They chose not to bomb Tokyo because they needed someone left alive to surrender. They did it…twice. Almost completely consisting of civilian casualties.

    Most of my fellow Americans do not carry shame for it. I do.

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      14 hours ago

      and every generation fewer people really get more than a paragraph in history class about japanese americans who had nothing to do with anything, but were tossed into internment camps.

      now, it’s anyone who’s not 100% white, citizen or not, criminal history or not-- ICE can fucking murder you and face zero consequences. what progress we’ve made…