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@PrishaMosley that's ridiculous. you don't care about the truth, you've started from the position that she's evil and are working backwards to justify it. i don't know what's going on in your life, but dedicating yourself to hating trans people isn't going to fix it.

@eeuuuggh No one who doesn’t have a sick mind would put those words together. That’s his opinion.

Reminder that Ethel Cain thinks 12 year old girls are “breedable”

@bingtangjiu @inari_oji @yuwei77721 Of course, Japan was a genocidal country that was perpetrating a massacre in China. This is not to disregard that. But, the U.S. has never been a country moved to military action out of empathy. I just find the comment above a little historically inaccurate, is all.

@bingtangjiu @inari_oji @yuwei77721 If you look at summaries of war room meetings, public announcements, and private diaries of U.S. top officials relating to the bombs, none of them mention Japan's actions against China. America was acting with it's own national interest in mind when they dropped the bombs.

昨夜､娘から衝撃的な発言があり急遽家族会議をしました…。 娘曰く「日本人に見られるのが恥ずかしい…」と…。 なぜなのか問いましたら「歴史の授業で南京大虐殺を知った」と。 娘はインターナショナルスクールですので､私は「それは日本人の先生から教わったの？」と訊きました。 すると､「IGCSEのカリキュラムの中でイギリス人の先生から教わった」と…。 ※IGCSE（Cambridge IGCSE）とは、14〜16歳（日本の中学〜高校1年）を対象とした世界的に認められた中等教育修了資格です。 イギリスが中心で､この後にIBやAPなどに進みます。 家内が「そんなこと､していないのよ！」と言いますと､「ママやパパの頃は事実が分からなかったのよ」と… 私から､「1985年に南京大虐殺記念館が中国でオープンするまでは､南京事件って言って中国も騒いでいなかったんだよ」と言っても「それは日本の視点で､世界からは違うよ」と…。 衝撃を受けました私は､添付の記事（日本のメディアではなくNYタイムズ）を見せて､冷静に虐殺する合理的なメリットがないことや､中国のプロパガンダの特性などを話しました。 蒋介石の行動や､南京での日本軍と現地の方のスナップ写真なども見せました。 娘はまだ半信半疑のようです。 私が心配しているのは､上記の内容を海外の教育プログラムに入っていること…。何とかできないか模索中です。

@Adler43769 @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 It's okay, it's Twitter after all, that's what it's designed to do haha

@eeuuuggh @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 Yeah I'm sorry. Maybe I'm being a bit argumentative because I see so many vile people denying atroctities in the post and replies.

@windtrack_QH @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 I think this is a product of discussion through online translation. I'm not arguing for or against their use in that post, I'm just disagreeing with the characterization of U.S. leadership at the time, and their thought process with the strikes. Hope you have a good day :)

@eeuuuggh @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 Oh, if no nuke force Japan to surrender, how many Asian civilians and US soldiers would have died for every single extra day the war dragged on? Would you be willing to go die in their place just so no nuke? Stop pretending to be some fucking saint, you piece of shit.

@Adler43769 @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 I agree. Of course civilian lives would have been devastated, but I'm discussing the US strategic reasoning at the time. I didn't mean for it to come across that I was arguing for/against the use of the bombs, I just disagree that they were used because of Nanjing.

@eeuuuggh @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 That and civilian lives. A ground invasion would have killed far more than bombs. I'm not gonna call dropping them a heroic act, but there was no other choice as long as Japan wasn't gonna surrender.

@Adler43769 @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 'Purely' is a bit hyperbolic. My point is there isn't evidence that Truman was motivated to order the nukes because of what Japan was doing to China at time.

@eeuuuggh @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 Purely self-interested and it's putting an end to the biggest war in history lmao

@Adler43769 @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 American soldiers. I'm using 'costs' in a broadly applying manner. Waging a traditional war on Japan (Operation Downfall) would've had a large amount of American casualties, and in a monetary sense, they were spending around 10-15 billion $'s per month already.(1945 money.)

@eeuuuggh @Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 What do you think the most valuable cost of the invasion would have been? Military equipment?

@Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 I invite you to read Truman's Potsdam diary, as well as other sources from the time. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/28466… nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/28467… doug-long.com/byrnes.htm

@Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 I agree with that description of Japan. But the rationale of the United States, as reflected in both public and private documents, focused on forcing Japan’s rapid surrender to avoid costs of invasion, while also furthering geopolitical goals - especially in regards to the USSR.

@Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 Paul Tibbets was following the orders given to him by Truman. Nanjing cleared his conscience, yes, but the atomic bomb was going to be dropped regardless of his opinion. This is apparent as he only dropped one of the two bombs, the other plane being flown by Charles Sweeney.

@eeuuuggh @inari_oji @yuwei77721 投放原子弹的保罗说他扔这个原子弹的时候良心非常过得去，因为他看到过南京大屠杀纪录片，深知日本人的恶行，所以在扔的时候没有任何心理负担。

@Lin0211Lin @inari_oji @yuwei77721 While I agree that Japan committed the Nanjing Massacre, most evidence points towards the U.S. being purely self-interested in their bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

@inari_oji @yuwei77721 你是不知道你们为什么会被扔两颗原子弹吗？

@inari_oji @yuwei77721 adhoc.yalepages.org/Collections/Na…

@yuwei77721 大虐殺の証拠を出して

@sylvie_longeron fantastic composition

David Lynch photographed by Richard Ansett, 1999.

@FreedomBro1 @robertlasagna1 @JadeAtrophis i understand and agree with the heart of your post 100% - lots of jazz is totally accessible - but Coltrane also made ascension lol

@robertlasagna1 @JadeAtrophis Anyone can enjoy this, you don’t need to know how to play an instrument. I agree that some jazz might require that, but Coltrane is user friendly

The jazz question is simple: it's very fun to play, it's not very fun to listen to. To enjoy listening to it you must have a combination of technical skill and vivid imagination and be able to imagine yourself playing. It differs in this way from other high skill genres, which can be passively enjoyed at any technical level. You can train passive musical appreciation and get more out of classical music, or other complex styles, but not so for jazz, because jazz is an inside joke

@MourningScholar @JayBigglesworth @Emily_14568 the petit bourgeoisie value their Social Capital - in a bastardized Bourdieusian use of the word, not even a Marxist one since were just using the aesthetic of words to larp on the internet - more than Money. wow! who knew?!

@JayBigglesworth @Emily_14568 well yeah becuz he's a petit bourgie. money and physical capital matters less to him than his social capital, which is the ability to be a funny artist guy on the internet but with added weeb flavour

the whole thing just boils down to the chauvinism of the petit bourgeois 'artist' and their freeloading off the commons. oh no you won't sponsor a professional, adequate translation of your work, but you will 'graciously' accept the unpaid labor of your foreign fans

@MourningScholar @Emily_14568 why are there only two ways? he's already found a third way: marking those translations that fulfill his creative vision perfectly as official, and allowing other imperfect translations to be consumed under the knowledge that they are unoffical. and thats not how a ; works

@Emily_14568 or in another way; there are only two ways one is ever retaining 'total creative control' of a work; either they limit it to as exclusive of an audience as possible, or they do everything in their power to dominate the space of its interpretation. There is no middle road in this.

@MourningScholar @Emily_14568 its capitalist logic to value the quality of ur work over the possible capital gain from expanding his market access? and if it doesnt have to be perfect, then whats the problem with fan translations, provided by the "legions of people who would do anything to advance his vision"

@Emily_14568 limitations aside he has plenty of money and legions of people who would do anything to advance his vision, and noone said a translation had to be perfect on the first pass save his pride and capitalist logic. so we're afraid we can only chalk this up to a failure in imagination

@TheAliceSmith @arvofart "There is master morality and slave morality—I add at once that in all higher and mixed cultures attempts at mediation between the two are apparent and more often, [...], in fact, sometimes their harsh juxtaposition appears even in the same man, within a single soul." ???

@arvofart By which he meant moving beyond *traditional* concepts of good and evil (slave morality), to replace them with the concepts of good and bad (master morality). He still believed in a dichotomous ethical system. Basic.

Every time I hear some woke screenwriter or reviewer talk about the need for “morally complex” plots or “morally grey” heroes, I think of this quote from Nietzsche. “They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”