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KMFJD said:
facts?

Well that's a failure in the American education system , while the US made up the majority of the forces in the Pacific they where not the only ones there, Australia held the line in New Guinea , the Dutch fought them in Indonesia , British in Malay/Sri Lanka/Burma/HK (Canadians in HK as well for some reason) and that's not even counting the Chinese who lost way more than the US ever did.

I had family in the Japanese concentration camps on Java (not all made it out either), i had relatives that where in the Dutch submarine forces that sank a few boats at the start of hostilities

Tomorrow is freedom day here in the Netherlands (May 5th) , it's a major holiday , the area i'm in currently was liberated by the Americans, northern Netherlands was liberated by the Canadians and they and their graves are treated like family (i believe local families are individually assigned graves to maintain and they are taken care of with a lot of care)
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Well, to be fair, Pens1566 said "Europe" (which is why I didn't come back with "Australia"). But, yeah, UK, the Dutch, all the European powers that previously subjugated the natives out East were involved in, um, fighting off the wicked subjugating Japanese.

Apparently there was even some fighting between Germans and Japanese at one point (the Japanese murdered some German nuns who were doing missionary work out there, and also fought some Germans who were part of the French Foreign Legion).
 
KMFJD said:
facts?

Well that's a failure in the American education system , while the US made up the majority of the forces in the Pacific they where not the only ones there, Australia held the line in New Guinea , the Dutch fought them in Indonesia , British in Malay/Sri Lanka/Burma/HK (Canadians in HK as well for some reason) and that's not even counting the Chinese who lost way more than the US ever did.

I had family in the Japanese concentration camps on Java (not all made it out either), i had relatives that where in the Dutch submarine forces that sank a few boats at the start of hostilities

Tomorrow is freedom day here in the Netherlands (May 5th) , it's a major holiday , the area i'm in currently was liberated by the Americans, northern Netherlands was liberated by the Canadians and they and their graves are treated like family (i believe local families are individually assigned graves to maintain and they are taken care of with a lot of care)
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Yeah, "minimal" would have been better. The early protectorate/territory stuff aside, it was dwarfed by US efforts. Unless you count AU due to their status at the time.
 
Amused said:
Asked directly if it’s his duty as president to uphold the Constitution, Trump said, “I don’t know.”
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In the A-to-Z path from freedom to dictatorship, this is just like Step G, so don't worry about it. Everything is just fine.

Don't take my word for it, just ask any of the Trump apologists still turning up to defend it.
 
Amused said:
Asked directly if it’s his duty as president to uphold the Constitution, Trump said, “I don’t know.”
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nickqt said:
In the A-to-Z path from freedom to dictatorship, this is just like Step G, so don't worry about it. Everything is just fine.

Don't take my word for it, just ask any of the Trump apologists still turning up to defend it.
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I don't know.. how dems are so willing to be the useful idiots cooperating with the wanna be dictators.

Maybe they too are becoming accelerationists.
 
Amused said:
Asked directly if it’s his duty as president to uphold the Constitution, Trump said, “I don’t know.”
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I hope greenman, Felix, pcgeek, Brandon bull and others rot in hell and move to Russia you fucking traitors to America. Fuck you to hell. May you and every magat suffer the traitor’s fate you deserve. You absolute fucks. Burn in hell
 
Indus said:
I don't know.. how dems are so willing to be the useful idiots cooperating with the wanna be dictators.

Maybe they too are becoming accelerationists.
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I think it's a mix of denial and trust in institutions that are currently being set on fire.
 
I wonder if this offends Catholics who voted for Trump? Trump posted this on Truth Social and was reposted by the Official WH X account.

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KMFJD said:
Materially, i agree with you, but in lives? nah not even close, the Chinese lost millions (over 14 million people)

en.wikipedia.org

World War II casualties - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The bulk of Chinese losses you are referring to is actually more attributable to the Second Sino Japanese War, isn't it? Started in 37. WWII started in 39, after the atrocities in Nanjing. After the fall of Wuhan.

It does kind of all blend together at some level though doesn't it? Chinese Civil war had been going on since 27, and would continue on after the end of WWII. China had it bad, that much is certain.
 
brycejones said:
Pope Trump wants to reopen and expand Alcatraz.

apnews.com

Trump says he's going to reopen Alcatraz prison. Doing so would be difficult and costly

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that's been closed for more than 60 years.
apnews.com apnews.com
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But... the tourism industry? When I visited SF that was one of the highlights for visitors!

Maybe if you lock Trump up in it as the only prisoner, we'll all pay to come gawp at him?
 
Dementia Don is really living up to that name lately, wow. He's down to his last clump of brain cells, I think his cranium contains mostly fast food grease and Adderall residue at this point. Not a lot of oxygen making it in there, but he sounds more irritability clueless that normal lately. His crashing numbers are driving him nuts, it's wearing on him. Good.

Hurry up and stroke out, fucker.
 
Doug Henwood just did an interview with the author of this, and it sounds like he does a great job of summarising exactly the reasons why I've concluded the US Constitution is a piece of crap (rest assured, he uses much longer words than that).

press.uchicago.edu

The Constitutional Bind

An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world. Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst...
press.uchicago.edu press.uchicago.edu
 
KMFJD said:
facts?

Well that's a failure in the American education system , while the US made up the majority of the forces in the Pacific they where not the only ones there, Australia held the line in New Guinea , the Dutch fought them in Indonesia , British in Malay/Sri Lanka/Burma/HK (Canadians in HK as well for some reason) and that's not even counting the Chinese who lost way more than the US ever did.

I had family in the Japanese concentration camps on Java (not all made it out either), i had relatives that where in the Dutch submarine forces that sank a few boats at the start of hostilities

Tomorrow is freedom day here in the Netherlands (May 5th) , it's a major holiday , the area i'm in currently was liberated by the Americans, northern Netherlands was liberated by the Canadians and they and their graves are treated like family (i believe local families are individually assigned graves to maintain and they are taken care of with a lot of care)
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You'll have to forgive some of us Americans, we've been conditioned to understand that the only way anything ever happened was because we were involved. You should see how we celebrate the fucking Alamo man. You'd think it was Helm's Deep.
 
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