Weekend Open Thread

I will be covering 2 out of the 3 major narratives (the one with the morality of dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki I’ll do when I talk about VJ day). The first is one that Potential History briefly touched on in the first video of his I shared, which is “Peaceful Japan was forced into war after the United States stopped trading with them. This prompted them to wage a military campaign to liberate various asians from American and European colonist oppressors and Chinese warlords.” One, Japan was already at war in China during the time of our trade embargo. Two, a nation has a right to decide who it does and doesn’t trade with and is hardly an act of war. Three, even though the official stated reason for the embargo was the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, I do suspect news of various atrocities committed by Japanese forces during their earlier campaigns (like Nanking) were part of it. Four, in places like Korea, China, the Phillipines, and elsewhere where the Japanese military occupied, they were the brutal colonizers and were the furthest thing from liberators. And the second narrative is “Japan during World War Two never committed any war crimes.” Uh-huh. I’ll just have the videos I’ll be sharing completely disprove that one. The first will be about the Bataan Death March (which I believe is the worst war crime committed against American and Filipino POWs in history) and is made by a Youtuber Brit by the name of Simon Whistler on his channel, Geographics:

Now when it comes to the Uyoku dantai, they number about 100,000 individuals in a country that has about 127,700,000 people. In demographic terms, that isn’t even a blip on the radar, but they are a very vocal minority. As such, they have had some success as far as how the topic is viewed by their citizens, particularly in politics and how they teach their younger generations in school about World War Two (They call World War Two the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity War, probably to distance themselves from the “alliance” they had with Germany at the time.). This next video is by Knowing Better. He gives more info on the narratives I’ve been talking about and goes into detail about Nanking (Viewer Discretion Advised for this one. There are pictures of Japanese troops being absolute monsters in Nanking. The photos are blurred for obvious reasons, but they do give a good idea of what’s being shown. Not to mention some of the details he gives. Also, please forgive Knowing Better for a very terrible comparison he makes between Japanese nationalism (Fascism) at the time with a modern political movement in the US that I myself happen to be apart of (I’m a Trump supporter). But it was very brief and he only does it once. And most of the information he gives on this topic is good, so, on those things alone, I decided to let it slide.):

So with those narratives effectively trashed, I would like to finish with saying that it is clear to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the World War Two Pacific Theater that the Japanese serving in the IJA, IJN, and the Japanese government at the time were very evil SOBs. Although there are a few examples in the war of individual Japanese acting like decent human beings, those examples were very few and very far between (I might do posts on these few decent Japanese later. I don’t know yet if I will). But in the same way I don’t attribute or condemn Germans today for the things the third reich did when they weren’t even alive then, I apply the same standards to the Japanese today. There is much I do admire about contemporary Japan today, but it is very necessary to call out historical revisionism and denialism where it exists and when it comes up. And I think I’ve accomplished a little bit of that today. In memory of the countless victims of Japanese brutality during the War in the Pacific.

Have a good weekend.

In many instances, the Japanese military was more ruthless and brutal than the German NAZI military. For example, the Jap high command issued orders to exterminate all military POW’s. They were set to carry it out on the Jap mainland island POW compounds as soon as we invaded those home islands. They did execute many POW’s at other islands before we captured them. Like the NAZI’s, we didn’t hang enough of them.

Identify theft account turned / changed to AI FAKE account.

Another early AM raid. And from what I gathered, no news media around to catch the whole thing on video for reasons.

I told a San Francisco liberal (not the unspeakable one) of the three NCO’s on the Union side who not only were awarded Medals of Honor for their valor under fire but shared the last names of my grandparents. Had these soldiers paid my share of reparations; or did I owe more? Crickets

Are we not all tax slave descendants?

Well done! 😁

No, it’s not going to be DeSantis. Trump isn’t going to change his state of residency from Florida to accommodate Ron. If both candidates are from the same state, they can’t claim the electoral votes from that state. The Republicans path to 270 runs through Florida. Why would they give up 30 electoral votes from a state they’re virtually guaranteed to win?

https://www.history.com/news/can-the-president-and-vice-president-be-from-the-same-state

This is a result of your stupid, progressive woke lunacy. Liberalism truly is a mental disorder when it reaches its extremes.