ww2buff

I love comments like this. Condescending, confident, completely ignorant of extremely basic concepts relevant to the topic under discussion, like the 300 year existence of property tax assessors in every county in north america

The police riots were indeed awful but unfortunately I don’t think there’s going to be a correction- as they showed when they were cracking skulls in Washington sq park the NYPD can operate basically independent of the civilian authorities

What exactly do you think is the significance of the “genetic similarity to sub-Saharan Africa”

Please be very, very specific

This is fantasy propaganda that was used by the genocidaires in Republika Srpska to justify the war they started and the actual genocide they committed.

A decisive federation victory over the republika srpska

What is the physiological mechanism through which we repress unexpressed emotions, and which nutrients does it consume?

Well, in that case I suppose this has actually been a testament to poor judgment on both our parts.

I think it is a remarkable testament to your patience that you continue to treat this guy as if he is interested in arguing in good faith, and not as a hardcore ideologue & culture-warrior.

A corporation deciding not to run ads on videos of a crank promoting snake oil is not a First Amendment issue. It is barely even a censorship issue in the broadest sense of the term. Very sad to see Taibbi reduced to this kind of totally empty hysteria.

What exactly is this pile of innuendo meant to allege

There was a faction of right wing Republicans who wanted to end the war quickly in order to forestall Russia, but they wanted to end the war quickly by forgoing an invasion and allowing Japan to surrender conditionally, without an occupation or a forced change of government or constitution, because they thought an armed and relatively intact militarist-run Japan would be a good buffer against the Soviet Union. This was unacceptable to the liberal new deal faction running the US government, who believed that a disarmed and democratic Japan was the only way to prevent another war.

“They only wanted to keep the commies out” is a nicely glib line, but one that glosses over the many, many political considerations that shaped the end of the pacific war and reveals an almost total ignorance of the scholarship on the subject