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@alis-volat-prorilis
I have been waiting for this little guy to come back on my dash. He dances in sync with any music you play!
He’s dancing to Carry On My Wayward Son. It’s surreal.
Please make him dance to the song from the soundtrack of A Chorus Line: “Opening: I Hope I Get It.”
There are some great moments.
ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.
Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.
“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole
i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok
- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that:
“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56
- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:
“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380
- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:
“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441
- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:
“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71
- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:
“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source
- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:
“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here
- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:
“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source
- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:
“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145
So to recap:
A lot of American generals were against using the bomb as they felt it served an empty purpose.
Those who agreed with its usage completely disagreed with dropping them on cities.
Truman went ahead and had them detonated in two highly populated civilian cities anyway. Two cities that had remained mostly untouched by regular bombings throughout the war precisely bc of their lack of value to the Japanese war effort.
Draw your own conclusions.
I hope y'all know that this is common knowledge to everyone of every other country
Not the UK or the US…..hmmmm
I dont see a lot of people talk about Sky High, but man was it a fun movie.
Who could forget such favorites as…
Wonder Bread Boy
Non-Poison Ivy
Guinea-Goth 3000
White Zuko
Me At Family Reunions
Shine Bright Like A Diamond.mp3
Practical Female Armor
All Aboard The Magic Hell-Bus
and everyone’s favorite:
Megamind as performed by Pleakley
FUCK silverfish
if those are the little bug things that look like centipedes yeah fuck em omfg
I HATE THEM SO MUCH
OH IN MINECRAFT I THOUGHT YOU MEANT. REAL ONES SLDKJFLSKDJLFSDF
wait
WHAT DO YOU MEAN REAL ONES
where do you think the name came from
i don’t know, tumblr user plump9000. i sort of thought they weren’t real, like endermen. or creepers.
>implying endermen aren’t real
really not liking what you’re implying buddy
Someone: I’d love to read some of your writing some time
Me, who never gets anything finished:
Me when I see a character with my name: Oh, cool! That’s my name!
Me when I see someone irl with my name: There can only be one.
One of the best pranks I’ve ever seen, even the dog was shook…
I liveeeeeeeeeee for pranks!
PRANKS LIKE THIS.
Look at this. Look at the EFFORT this took.
No random screaming, no calling people slurs, no one lost anything or got hurt, THIS. THIS. Is a great prank. I hope everyone involved is having a fucking great day.
How do I cite a bootleg….
its lavender
James: Maybe we shouldn’t get too greedy. That’s when things fall apart.
Meowth: Don’t worry that pretty blue head o’ yours, I got a plan.
James: [offscreen, lowkey annoyed] It’s lavender.
you know when i was reblogging this old videos i made when i was watching pokemon on a whim this morning i never expected that this would get so many notes
j.k rowling: *is the actual writer & gives us important information about the characters*
fandom: mmmmmmmm are u sure about that
starkids: there’s a school on mars
fandom: wow this is #CANON can’t believe they didn’t include pigfarts in the movies
be gentle w me pls
ʸᵉᵃʰᶜᵃⁿ ᴵ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵘʰʰʰʰʰʰ some fuckin physical affection
god i fucking love people like i’m a cynical asshole true but when you ask people “hey do you know any good books” people just… pour out. if you talk about music and you’re just looking for a nice band to listen to people have all these great moments they talk about like how they saw this person in concert or that person saved their life with lyrics alone or like this song was at their mom’s 40th birthday party.
like i think it’s so cool that we’re all brimming with these favorite things we love like we overflow with them and when someone says “hey can i share?” people just….. trip over themselves to give, give, give
anyways. When can I start screaming
me at all times
