We did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese.
How in the ever loving fuck was Hirohito allowed to stay in power then?
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this is what happens when you don't elect people to congress who couldn't pass fucking freshman high school history
These fuckers can't pass a 5th grade literacy test. Also I think learning anything non bible related is a sin to them
To be completely fair, they don't learn the Bible correctly either.
to anyone thinking this reply is exaggerating, here are the stats:
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025literacy-statistics
54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).
More than anything else, to me this era is defined by the number of people in positions of power who are brutally obviously full-blown psychopaths.
It's to the point that I'm not even sure if this is most accurately considered a political crisis. It seems more a mental health crisis, marked by the fact that so many positions of power are held by people who are so profoundly mentally ill that they likely shouldn't even be allowed in public unsupervised, much less allowed to hold any sort of authority over anyone else.
America reveres the mentally ill, of your condition leans the right way. Have no empathy or care for others? You might fit in with the GOP. Think hoarding wealth and resources for yourself is a great way to be? The GOP is calling your name! Do you want to over tax people with nothing so people with everything don't have to worry about anything? You guessed it, welcome to the Republican party.
In a fair world his comment should warrant a 72 hour psych hold.
Remember, calling for violence against civilians is illegal.... unless they aren't white.
Calling for violence against the powers-that-be is how revolutions get shit done, however.
Here's a story. Back at my previous job I had to work with this super MAGA heavyset Israeli man we'll nickname A. This guy had a chubber for Trump. Back when Trump was separating immigrant families at the border and sticking them in camps, A justified it by saying that "we used to do the same thing to the Japanese and no one cared about it then, so why is everyone up in arms about it now?"
This was a 50-something man from Israel. I can only imagine he'd be wholeheartedly in favor of this.
The silver lining is he got laid off after the company got fucked over by Trump
Mental illness is a prerequisite at this point.
Nuke his district
Maybe try near or around the Kremlin?
Republicans telling us who they are again.