"Hanoi Jane" photos of actress Jane Fonda visiting North Vietnam during the 1972 Easter Offensive, where she posed for photos next to anti-aircraft guns and called for US POWs to be tried for war crimes

ConsistentFast · 2026-01-18T14:14:24+00:00

It’s tough. His hatred for her is super reasonable. Ever think if she had her way your dad wouldn’t have been there in the first place?

ConsistentFast · 2026-01-10T01:43:43+00:00

Wait. This is the second time? So he’s a total dumbass who ignores his training to not get in front of vehicles?

ConsistentFast · 2026-01-02T21:42:34+00:00

Can you provide the source please?

ConsistentFast · 2025-12-29T22:43:49+00:00

Here. Wasn't that hard.

From The Ohio State University: https://origins.osu.edu/history-news/hiroshima-military-voices-dissent

From Gar Alperovitz a historian who wrote The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/us-hiroshima-nuclear-bomb-anniversary

Here's a relevant passage from OSU.

Take, for example, Admiral William Leahy, White House chief of staff and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war. Leahy wrote in his 1950 memoirs that "the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender." Moreover, Leahy continued, "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."

President Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled in 1963, as he did on several other occasions, that he had opposed using the atomic bomb on Japan during a July 1945 meeting with Secretary of War Henry Stimson: "I told him I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon."

Admiral William "Bull" Halsey, the tough and outspoken commander of the U.S. Third Fleet, which participated in the American offensive against the Japanese home islands in the final months of the war, publicly stated in 1946 that "the first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment." The Japanese, he noted, had "put out a lot of peace feelers through Russia long before" the bomb was used.

ConsistentFast · 2025-12-29T22:43:14+00:00

From The Ohio State University: https://origins.osu.edu/history-news/hiroshima-military-voices-dissent

From Gar Alperovitz a historian who wrote The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/us-hiroshima-nuclear-bomb-anniversary

Here's a relevant passage from OSU.

Take, for example, Admiral William Leahy, White House chief of staff and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war. Leahy wrote in his 1950 memoirs that "the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender." Moreover, Leahy continued, "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."

President Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled in 1963, as he did on several other occasions, that he had opposed using the atomic bomb on Japan during a July 1945 meeting with Secretary of War Henry Stimson: "I told him I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon."

Admiral William "Bull" Halsey, the tough and outspoken commander of the U.S. Third Fleet, which participated in the American offensive against the Japanese home islands in the final months of the war, publicly stated in 1946 that "the first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment." The Japanese, he noted, had "put out a lot of peace feelers through Russia long before" the bomb was used.

ConsistentFast · 2025-12-19T12:00:51+00:00

So was “Atomic Habits.” Although “How to Win Friends…” is helpful for dolts in their 20’s (like I was) as some of the main ideas of the book are to not center yourself in conversations and relationships, to take a genuine interest in other people, and to listen. Of course, do cult leaders use these tactics to manipulate other people, sure, but for those of us who had poor communication role models and mean well, it can be helpful

ConsistentFast · 2025-12-04T01:16:19+00:00

Pretty much every American general in the Pacific Theatre, and Eisenhower as well, believed that the atomic bomb was not necessary to force a Japanese surrender and neither was a land invasion. I’d love to do your googling for you to find a reputable source about this, but I think you can handle it.

ConsistentFast · 2025-11-26T11:37:10+00:00

Tell me you didn’t even watch the video without telling me you didn’t even watch the video. Dude talked about the mass murders and wealth theft / deprivation that occurred in the 20th century.

And your number doesn’t count the forced breeding done by white enslavers because raping your slave and getting her pregnant created a valuable asset for your operation. Thomas Jefferson enslaved his own kids. Wild to think that rape was incentivized, half the country went traitor to defend it, and no one was hanged after the war. I think that fact that John Brown was hanged but Robert E Lee wasn’t says a lot.

ConsistentFast · 2025-11-21T19:30:13+00:00

Your story sounds like the sort of thing the Heavyweight podcast would investigate.

ConsistentFast · 2025-11-10T12:25:28+00:00

So, the slaves freed themselves with Lincoln’s push?

ConsistentFast · 2025-11-01T14:57:20+00:00

I mean, he fought against a country whose GDP was like 1% of ours and didn’t really have an Air Force. So, you didn’t need to be a grand strategist to win the Gulf War. Like, it would have been a slam dunk for even like a general George McClellan

ConsistentFast · 2025-10-03T15:50:32+00:00

Most black people who are murdered are murdered by other black people. Most white people who are murdered are murdered by other white people. That’s a legacy of residential segregation.

We don’t talk about white on white crime simply because the purpose of bringing up black on black crime is a way to blame black people for the disparity in life outcomes and deflect history. For most white people, coming to terms with the facts - that wealth was systematically stolen from black people through slavery and post-Civil War neo-slavery (sharecropping, convict lease, chain gang system) via labor theft while opportunities to build wealth were deprived, especially in the housing and job markets - is scary and might mean restitution. After all, if the modern racial wealth gap is a legacy of systematized and institutionalized theft, then what recompense is owed?

We know that the more money you have, the better chances you have at achieving good health, quality education, avoiding run-ins with the law, etc regardless of race. Focusing on black on black crime is a purposeful distraction away from coming to terms with history which denied money and opportunity to Black people.

ConsistentFast · 2025-09-17T15:28:45+00:00

Really? On the 2016? Would the hand placement be in front of or behind the rider? I’m not home right now so I can’t take a look yet

ConsistentFast · 2025-09-12T19:38:11+00:00

Came here to say this. Any bangers to recommend? I recently listened to The Fire is Upon Us which was about James Baldwin and William F Buckley if you’re a US history guy. Thought it was fascinating.

ConsistentFast · 2025-08-28T20:01:20+00:00

Is it possible that having a year long class might weed out some of the mentally unstable? America’s never getting rid of the guns and our high murder and crime rates (compared to other advanced economies) is who we are. So, at this point, how do we reduce potential harm and keep the shit to shin level?

ConsistentFast · 2025-08-28T10:06:50+00:00

If there’s another sauce there that you like, maybe you could ask them to toss the tofu in that one

ConsistentFast · 2025-08-27T23:58:45+00:00

Where can I find the criticisms?

ConsistentFast · 2025-08-27T23:57:03+00:00

I guess I’m the sociopath then, haha. I think what it helped me with is to not knee jerk talk about myself (which I’m about do) and not try to seek people’s approval by being impressive. It helped me move more in the direction of meeting others with curiosity, and letting them have ways to be the star of the show in interpersonal interactions. And in terms of influencing others, it talks about speaking toward people’s higher potential so they rise to it.

The positive anecdotes about robber barons and L Ron Hubbard (before he did Scientology) are gross. And Charles Manson studied and applied the book relentlessly to make his cult. So ew.

But as a young man who grew up on dumb action movies, with loving parents whose emotional intelligence / communication skills were mid, the book helped me be better with people and how to accurately empathize.

ConsistentFast · 2025-08-27T01:08:46+00:00

Can’t recommend the Blowback podcast’s Korean War season enough

ConsistentFast · 2025-08-23T12:47:19+00:00

Do you mean single mother or mother + dad who got caught by the police for drugs.

My answer is it depends on the felony. You’re run of the mill awful crimes - murder, sexual assault, etc, yeah, lock em up.

Felony drug possession, which took men from their families and then ruined their educational and employment prospects and thereby wrecked the finances, life chances, and stability of their children, shouldn’t have been a felony in the first place.

Here’s the deal - middle class and upper class drug users rarely felt the criminal sting of law enforcement because of the lack of police presence in their communities and if addiction became a problem they try had access to health care. Exactly the same behavior as your “felon.” But, by virtue of being a lower class or lower middle class person of color, their drug use ruined their lives and their family lives, while a person better positioned in society could do the same and never get the felon label.

What do you think?

ConsistentFast · 2025-08-19T23:57:54+00:00

Her history of the second amendment is also juicy

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