“Not clear on what you are trying to say.”

No, the US is known for sanctimonious douchebags who justify the targeting of civilian populations with nuclear weapons by claiming it was done to stop the use of nuclear weapons.

Because the critical difference in historical perspective between American soldiers playing football at the site of a recent nuclear blast and that of anyone looking back seven decades later has to do precisely with how the United States has actively maintained its monopoly on the use of nuclear weapons in warfare.

I…

What I wrote says nothing even remotely like “nukes are infinitely worse than conventional bombing of civilians.” You’re having a conversation with a straw man, not me.

Who is “pretending that nukes are infinitely worse than conventional bombing of civilians”?

You’re citing the reasoning of Americans in December of 1946. Why?

“i was just typing in this language we call English... ?”

Civilian casualties are going to happen with an all out war.

“We may have done so... but...”

It wasn’t a flash of bright light that killed more than one hundred thousand people.

The way we look at it today is quite different from the people who survived it.

All coordinate systems are human constructs. That doesn’t make them insignificant. Indeed, the only way anything acquires significance is by someone investing it with significance.

“How to Watch the First Blue Moon in 150 Years”

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What you quite explicitly said is that it “no longer exists.” That you later acknowledged that it never did exist only demonstrates that you’re happy to move your own goal posts as it suits you.

Oh please do go on about that time when objectivity existed in public discourse, Professor Habermas.

Well if his rocket blows up it will certainly be because he hit the firmament.

Because the botched Kursk rescue taught no one anything.

I always figured that this sort of app-shaming feature was omitted from the OS by design, since developers for the Google Play Store would balk at producing software for a platform that told users to blame them for their dying battery.

None of the women who came forward were ever in a position where I could make or break their careers. Sexual Harassment requires that I have such power.