Yeah a lot of people don’t seem to realize what not dropping the bombs meant. Conservative estimates would have put the fighting in the Pacific theater lasting 1-2 more years and an expected loss of human life greater than 3 million compared to an estimated 300,000 for the two bombings. 

I get that Landis is really, really into the planet Venus and SFF is cool but yes, this is massively impractical. 

the problem is Japan maintains they did nothing wrong, there was no operation cherry blossom, there were no sex slaves, or if there were they were enthusiastic volunteers, etc. etc.

Japan refuses to apologize for their atrocities in China, as well as the kidnapping and raping of Korean “comfort women” In fact they’re less than apologetic and often exclude these things from their school books. They actually held parades celebrating their soldiers for decades. Japan was no better than Hitler and…

So let’s get past the mass war crime atrocities japan carried out but let’s be sensitive about dropping a bomb on Japan after they attacked US soil? That’s a seriously hot take to put it nicely.

Seriously, just go to your local burger joint instead of some cash grabbing youtuber.

Smithers, I’m starting to think this Elon Musk fellow is not the brilliant tactician I thought he was.

Feel free to drink or bathe in the water used for this.  Drink a lot of it.

It’s water, being used in an industrial process (launching a rocket) that becomes waste and needs to be treated before being released into the environment. Pretty simple to see.

I hate this so much. Can’t we just keep humans involved in dealing with other humans? We’re all fucked.

Every soldier was a civilian at some point. That argument acts like if they’re two different species.

No, the people of Nanking were civilians. The people of Japan killed 200,000 of them, while raping 80,000 of them.

As soon as Japan starts respecting literally anyone else. As soon as Japan stops pretending that massacres and rape aren’t an explicit part of their military culture.

Those Japanese getting so offended CLEARLY don’t know the military history of their own country or they would be keeping their heads down and their mouths firmly shut.  

I get that the Japanese feel a little bit differently about the atomic bomb because it was dropped on them, but in reality it wasn’t any more destructive than other bombing campaigns during the war (look up the firebombing of Tokyo for instance). Besides, there was going to be a hell of a lot more death if we hadn’t…

I’m not sure japan is the petty party here.

Yeah Japan and Germany were in a heated race to see who could do the most fucked up shit and if you know the history of korea and nanking you know it was a close race.

It’s kind of rich for Japanese media to take issue with depictions of other nations’ WWII war crimes.

We really don’t need to call it “X.”