One week after I was born, the USA became the first country to use a nuclear weapon in wartime. We dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Shortly after that, we dropped another one on Nagasaki. The war ended. I was too young to know that happened, but I learned of it early in my life. It made me angry. I wanted to stop such insanity.
Progs' annual ritual-demonization of "The Bomb" is coming in a couple of weeks. Progs cannot even bring themselves to admit that "The Bomb" saved at least a million Allied lives and at least as many Japanese military personnel's lives. But wait! There's more!
* "The Bomb" saved hundreds of thousands of Allied POWs in camps that Japan could not supply with food.
* "The Bomb" saved the lives of hundreds of thousands or a few million Japanese civilians who lived near landing areas and inland objectives on Kyushu and Honshu (numbers depend on how quickly after initial landings the Japanese government surrendered).
* "The Bomb" saved millions of Japanese civilians all over the home islands who would have starved due to food distribution being totally wiped out (= railroads and roads used for both military and civilian purposes).
* "The Bomb" saved millions of civilians all over Asia (e.g. China, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia) from famines caused by food production being disrupted and Japanese occupiers stealing food from locals.
If one thinks it all through, "The Bomb" that killed a couple hundred thousand in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and shortened the lives of perhaps a couple hundred thousand (trying to be honest and realistic) may have saved 10 or 20 or 30 million lives, most of them Asian people in Japan, the continent, and the former DEI (now Indonesia).Now, ICE thugs are rounding up people who have Spanish-sounding surnames there, whether they are US citizens or not.
Stupidly false.
Like most places, the late 1950s and early 1960s were pretty dismal if you were a girl. Little by little, that got better. When I started high school, a girl who got pregnant was immediately kicked out of school. By the time I left that high school, that was no longer the case. A year later, the birth control pill became available and they were teaching sex education, finally.
Weird ... I don't recall any of the girls I went to school with complaining that their lives were "dismal". The "Sex Education" I received in school in 1966/1967 a repeat of what my parents provided a year or two earlier. From the grumbling I heard from fellow students in the classes, their parents had also provided that info to them some time before the school did.
A girl in my high school class - just one - did get pregnant and did drop out (voluntarily or involuntarily,
). Her boyfriend married her. What I learned decades later is that their marriage lasted, he became a foreman at the welding place where he worked when he also dropped out of high school, both got their GEDs, she got a college degree and a job in the career path for that degree. Obviously, their experience was not universal, but it is an outcome MM left unconsidered.
... Civil rights was in the news. There was talk about overpopulation as a threat to the environment and a creator of poverty. I decided I would not add to the problem, so I never had children. ...
Civil rights ... I grew up in a small rural town. You know, the kind Libs/Progs stereotype as hotbeds of racism and segregation. Well, when I was in school, they were not segregated; my parents attended some of the same schools, and the schools were not segregated in the late 1910s through the early 1930s. AFAIK, schools in that town and country were never segregated. As for racism, I cannot realistically say there were zero racists in the county - humans are humans, and some are wretches - but I can truthfully say that I saw and heard none. What I did see was blacks, Hispanics, and Asians (mostly of Chinese ancestry) fully included in students' social lives. Using the current abbreviation, POCs were among the most popular on campus. Listening to my parent casually chatting about their classmates, I realized that this was true "in their day".
Snarky comment about MM not having kids aside, has he seriously STILL not realized that Paul Ehrlich's prophecy of mass fine and starvation in the 1970s proved false? And that the few local famines since have been the product of government stupidity, especially of the Marxist kind?
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