en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan

You can read Soviet Union negotiation attempt and Potsdam.

Basically Japan was ready to surrender months before the war, disarm, and pay reparations. The Japanese wanted to surrender everything but keep their government and Emperor. The allies knew this right away through interception of communication to the Soviets. But that “wasn’t good enough” somehow.

So the Americans nuked them twice, then proceeded to bomb the shit out of the Japanese. The Americans were less than a day away from nuking Tokyo over the concept of “unconditional surrender”, which again, the main difference between the Allies and the Japanese was that the Japanese wanted to maintain their government.

Anyways eventually they accept “unconditional surrender” and the fucking Americans let them keep the damn government anyways. Like it’s absolutely baffling how insane this was. The only thing like it is the ro-sham-bo scene in South Park.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan

However, unlike in Germany, the Allies never assumed direct control over Japan’s civil administration. In the immediate aftermath of Japan’s military surrender, the country’s government continued to formally operate under the provisions of the Meiji Constitution.

Now there is an argument that the group of people working on surrender within the Japanese government may not have succeeded. Maybe, without the atomic bomb, a coup would have happened and the side willing to surrender would have lost. It’s hard to think of what would have been. It is still historically very clear that we all prioritised warfare over diplomacy and it has likely caused hundreds of thousands of needless deaths.

Not that anyone has learned from that considering Trump is yammering about “unconditional surrender” all over again.

You’re right, there is a huge chunk of right of center people who hate women and minorities but keep their opinions behind closed doors. How could OP have lumped them with those who are open about those opinions!

Yeah, I think a physical pass or QR code you could print off would make this amazing piece of socially progressive legislation more impactful. Every time you use it you’d remember that you’re getting this deal through progressive government policies, not capitalist market pricing.

I’ve written Amanda Presley. You can also write principal Conrad directly through the school contact site https://bellhs.ocdsb.ca/our-school-landing/staff

Principals are bound by Accepting Schools Act, 2012, S.O. 2012, c. 5 - Bill 13 and Bill 14, Anti-Bullying Act, 2011 of Ontario to prevent bullying and intimidation in their schools. A principal who intimidates and bullies her own students cannot carry out her legal duty. This is completely unacceptable behaviour.

Please write to the board. This level of politics is much easier to influence through grassroots activism. A few dozen emails will go far! You can be the change you want to see in the world. Please take 5 minutes and write a short email!

The kill switch IS the complex supply chain. If you don’t get provided spare parts that are only made in 1-2 places in the world (and mostly in the US) you have a couple hundred hours of flight before your f35 becomes a billion dollar paperweight.

I think you wildly overestimate Iran’s ability to target. These missiles aren’t “kill nuclear scientists in their apartment” they’re “aim at a city and hope it lands”

Iran has ballistic missiles, which is an achievement, but aiming a rocket going at that speed with any accuracy is a monumental (read: expensive) engineering challenge.

Paradox of tolerance much? What if he has a Nazi flag, people are just supposed to sit there and protest under a giant fascist symbol?

Your viewpoint is wildly out of touch. You can’t tolerate the intolerant.

They heard the building was powered by Iranian nuclear power so it’s an “Iranian nuclear site”. You have to think in Zionist ways to understand Zionism!

Do both. The people in Washington aren’t going to Philly. Don’t let him get unspoiled parade footage so he can act like the county supports him. Force him to use violence to suppress peaceful protestors. Let the whole country see him hurt Americans for his selfish deeds. Throwing a military parade for his birthday like fucking Kim Jong-Un. Force him to use the US military to hurt Americans and see how that goes.

Don’t give them an inch. Resist every action, everywhere, everytime, at every level.

Don’t worry about that. Pretty soon Israel will have killed all the journalists willing to go into Gaza so it won’t be broadcast for long!

This whole article reads like https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/

They’re going to use ANY excuse to do this. They’re literally advertising that they’re going to use instigators to make sure they get the videos they need to do what they’re going to do anyways

These things aren’t won with peaceful protesting alone. We need both mass peaceful action and targeted violence.

They’re going to suppress us as if we did both anyways, might as well make progress.

I 100% get where you’re coming from. That makes total sense. I guess I was thinking of one specific context and over generalized. There is definitely room for nuance and to expand definitions of crimes through social efforts.

I think I was focused on the idea that we should be careful with strong language like rape, genocide, fascism, etc. Using them too liberally, or in ways that don’t match their severity undermines the position of victims like rape victims, Palestine, or whatever the fuck is happening to immigrants in the US right now.

It’s definitely a step too far to say that the only valid definition is the legal definition.

First of all I completely agree, and have no solution. Rape is by definition an intimate crime, generally all you have is he said/she said. That makes it hard to meet the criminal standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” which isn’t far for victims. Weakening the standard isn’t fair for anyone. We have to be innocent until proven guilty, I’d rather not live in a system where proving me guilty requires only the claims of one person and no evidence.

Our legal system was never designed for date rape.

I would like to add that it’s made worse by organisations spreading false information about rape. For example drinking or drugs don’t USUALLY invalidate consent. That should be obvious to anyone who has ever gone out on a date, had a couple of drinks then had sex enthusiastically with their new partner. Alcohol or drugs invalidate consent when either the person is clearly too intoxicated to consent/participate or has been given alcohol or drugs by someone in order to make them less able to resist sexual advances.

Unfortunately in cases like this it’s easy for the “any amount of alcohol/drugs means no consent” messaging to convince someone that it was rape. Especially if it wasn’t a good time, which isn’t uncommon when having sex with a new partner. Then they put themselves through the entire legal process only to come out of the situation worse than they started.

These organisations aren’t doing anyone favours by using definitions of rape that don’t match legal ones.

Same with statistics. It’s well known that the “most women are raped in university” type statistics are based on these types of faulty definitions. Generally the surveyed women report NOT being victims. What these organisations don’t understand is that overreporting statistics only makes people suspicious. If statistics don’t generally match lived experiences people are going to become suspicious of the concepts. Then when a victim steps out they’re subject to an unfair amount of suspicion: did you get raped by the common/legal definition or the definition used in these types of statistics. This is an additional trauma victims don’t deserve.

Definitions are important and we need to adopt common definitions of rape and sexual assault across the board instead of self serving ones to make big numbers and confuse young adults.

If the NDP press hard on these types of motions to materially improve the lives of Canadians they’re going to go far next elections. They need more marketing for their win on dental care. That was 100% them and they’re not getting the credit they deserve when the media talks about it.

A third said it’s causing Israeli families to reconsider sending their children to serve in Israel as lone soldiers

It’s already working as intended! I’m glad to see that there is accountability for Canadians who go out of their way to participate in war crimes and crimes against humanity

They should be put away for perjury. Lock them up. Even if we did need cops in our communities, we don’t need cops like THAT!

ACAB

It’s probably attempt suicide. There is generally an order of magnitude between attempt and commit. But I’m not downplaying how shitty it is tho.

I’ve got a nonsense idea with no sources do you have sources to contradict it?

Start with sources that back-up the nonsense you just made up. Because there is just no possible way that extracting 1 EV’s worth of lithium is equivalent pollution to the expected 200-400 thousand miles of ICE driving it offsets.

Exactly, we’re talking about two different things when comparing children’s sports and Olympic sports and it’s easy to conflate the two.

Olympic competition needs fair rules to ensure the best humanity can produce is rewarded. The rules are already there and they seem to be fair and supported by trans athletes. Politicians need to stay out.

In children’s sports it’s more important kids learn skills, fitness, cooperation, and find a sense of community. So unless there is a massive outlier, the rules should maximise inclusion over “fairness”. Politicians also need to stay out.

There is a recent last week tonight with Jon Oliver that explores this topic in a way that entertaining and powerful. Definitely worth a watch.

https://youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0

Hopefully you have a genuine interest and aren’t “just asking questions”