2.) introduced the plot point of a hole in the world
3.) didn’t let you fuck it. didn’t even let you TRY to fuck it. didn’t even let you DISCUSS THE LOGISTICS of fucking it. I tried every dialogue option that I thought might lead to the subject of sticking my dick in it and the game let me down every time. there’s a hole? in the world? you should be able to fuck it. you can wear a jacket that says FUCK THE WORLD but you never fucking act on it. what the fuck! it’s even called THE SWALLOW. why call it that if you’re not gonna let me fuck it?! JESUS IN HEAVEN. fuck!!!!
You know Elon probably saw this and was super mad he still can’t fire Halli.
I’ve already had one person in the notes claim dropping the bombs was the “only option” to end the war.
No.
Shaun has a wonderful breakdown of all the nuances surrounding the Japanese surrender.
If you do not have 2 hours to spare (or you can’t watch it at 2x speed), I will give you some bullet points.
Several American leaders of the time felt the bombs provided no assistance in ending the war.
Japan was already defeated. They wanted to surrender but were stubborn and wanted conditions.
Their only concern was their god-like emperor stay in power and not be executed.
That was their concern before the bombs. That was their concern after the bombs. Nothing changed in their minds.
They didn’t actually care that the bombs killed people. It took them several days to even have a meeting after the first bomb dropped.
The idea that dropping the bomb would save millions of casualties was invented *after* the bomb was dropped and was pulled out of someone’s ass to cover said ass.
There was never going to be an invasion.
People think we dropped the bombs and the Japanese leadership was like, “Oh shit! We give up!”
But in reality, we dropped the first bomb and they were like, “I’m busy tomorrow, can we have the bomb meeting on Thursday?”
We dropped the bombs to show the world we had the bombs.
Japan was a convenient and timely excuse to that end.
In American popular mythology, it is asserted frequently that the atomic bombing of Japan hastened the surrender of the Japanese government. This is simply not true. The two factors that precipitated the collapse of the war party in fascist Japan were dense mining of naval supply routes causing a collapse of domestic food supply and paralysis of supply lines to the Kwantung Army in Manchuria & the Soviet Union attacking Japan, which effectively ended the war party’s hope earlier in post-V-E-Day 1945 of a negotiated peace using Stalin as a neutral broker.
Both of those imposed fast-ticking clocks on the Japanese government to surrender, creating conditions under which the later surrender happened the more likely a peace would arise that made Japan irrelevant in world affairs and radically altered the structure of Japanese government going forward (occupation zones, the unseating of the Emperor, etc).
The bombs were war crimes. For that matter, so was the tactic of firebombing, which was practiced against both German and Japanese cities during the war, and which killed over or nearly a million people without appreciably altering the course of the war. They were grotesque and murderous expressions of power that should never be repeated in human history; they were not carried out under moral pretenses and should not be defended with moral sleight of hand.
If I have to add something here, it’s this: with few exceptions, states are composed of rational actors. The mythology that the Japanese were simply terrified by the bomb into making peace relies on the racist assumption that the balance of power was held by irrational, superstitious lunatics. The war party in fascist Japan had goals and a realistic picture of how to pursue those goals, and its illegal wars in Asia represented not insane fanaticism but calculated risk. The process of surrender was one in which they attempted to mitigate risks both to themselves and their vision of their country by stalling for time and attempting to negotiate, and the Allied refusal to accept anything but unconditional surrender was a roadblock they could not get over. The closest the bombings came to strategic thinking in Japan was formulating excuses for the Japanese public’s sake for a sudden change in course from total war to abject surrender.
[ID: a doodle of two people looking away from each other. The first person is thinking, “If they wanted me to know they would tell me. I shouldn’t ask about it.” The second person is thinking, “If they cared about it they would ask me. I shouldn’t talk About it.” End ID.]
So Universal Pictures may have just intentionally over-pruned all of the city owned trees in front of their LA corporate office in an effort to fuck with the WGA/SAG-AFTRA picketers during what is predicted to be the hottest week of the year so far:
