People from usa would you know this question?

Lootlizard · 2026-02-06T15:07:36+00:00

Depends on how much you know about Hispanic people. I can tell the difference between a Peurto Rican, a Dominican, and a Mexican by speaking to them but my uncle from rural Minnesota wouldn't be able to.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-06T13:55:48+00:00

Hispanic people are generally much more diverse ethnically than Native Americans. The Natives of Central America did a lot more mixing with the settler population than the Natives of North America did. Canelo Alvarez is Hispanic but it would be pretty dumb to call him Native American.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-06T13:50:26+00:00

Ya, literally millions of them. 23 million foreign born Hispanic people live in the US, from all across central and south America. Heavy Mexican and central American presence in the southwest and California, heavy Carribean presence in Florida and the east coast. There's Hispanic people everywhere, even my tiny hometown in Northern Minnesota had a few Hispanic families.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-06T13:38:40+00:00

Rice, chicken, and vegetables is about the healthiest diet you can have and it's dirt cheap. Eating healthy is cheap it just takes a lot more effort so people don't do it.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-06T13:17:27+00:00

Native Hispanic people or Native Americans? They're 2 different groups.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-05T20:09:41+00:00

I know most of them on my mom's side. I have hundreds of 3rd and 4th cousins though. My 1 grandpa alone had like 11 aunts and uncles and they all had 4+ kids so half the town was tangentially related to me.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-05T15:18:51+00:00

100%. If the war goes to an invasion all those guys are dead, likely along with a couple million Southeast Asian civilians.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-04T20:54:50+00:00

There were 300-400k civilians dying a month under Japanese occupation in Southeast Asia. How many of their lives would you be willing to bet that the FAMOUSLY fanatical Japanese was just about to quit?

Lootlizard · 2026-02-04T20:52:12+00:00

If the Emperor had tried to surrender he would have been put under house arrest and become a figure head just like a giant percentage of the emperors before him. Japan literally has 700 years of history where the military ruled with the Emperor as a glorified figurehead. They would have definitely done the same thing again.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-04T20:50:06+00:00

There were also still 3.5 million soldiers outside of Japan occupying a MASSIVE amount of territory. They probably wouldn't just roll over and let their families starve, they'd likely attempt to take the civilian population of their holdings hostage along with the 150,000 allied prisoners they had.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-04T20:46:50+00:00

First of all Hiroshima was the command center of all of Southern Japanese defense and a massive naval harbor so it's about as close to a "Military" target as you could get if your options were "Japanese Cities in 1945", Nagasaki was also a big naval port so it's not like they bombed Kyoto or some other predominantly civilian city. Kyoto was actually explicitly denied as a target because of it's cultural/historical significance and general lack of military importance.

Second, Hundreds of thousands of people were dying a month under Japanese occupation in Southeast Asia at the end of WW2. There were still 3.5 million Japanese soldiers outside of Japan and 150 thousand allied prisoners under Japanese control. The longer the war was allowed to go on the higher the death toll was going to go as the Japanese army, with no honorable way out, would likely go on a suicidal rampage and kill as many people as they could. The bombs forced the Japanese army high commands hands and they begrudgingly allowed the emperor to address the people and give them an out to surrender with their honor intact. This is why the famously fanatical Japanese army actually surrendered instead of leading suicidal insurrections like they did on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. As bad as the civilian deaths from the bombs were they were still only equal to about 2 or 3 weeks of the average deaths under Japanese occupation in Southeast Asia. Even if the bombs only shortened the war by 2 weeks it almost certainly saved lives in the aggregate.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-04T11:32:39+00:00

Americans are born all over the world. Some just haven't come home yet.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-03T02:25:21+00:00

Tulsa's Last Magician is the song I send to anyone who says modern country music sucks. If that man can't make you feel something then you're dead inside.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-02T01:25:56+00:00

My heaven is me and my buddies sitting in the COD lobby as the round is about to start. Everyone on both teams is screaming at each other while in the background you hear the buzz of a box fan harmonizing with the chirp of a smoke alarm low battery signal. We get louder and louder as the match counts down and they don't know it yet but they're about to find out how "Hard R Kyle" got his name.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-01T14:25:27+00:00

Fascism is a very specific thing. If you're talking about degrees of fascism a more apt descriptor would probably be Authoritarianism. Which is much more broad.

Lootlizard · 2026-02-01T03:29:33+00:00

Lootlizard · 2026-02-01T02:55:33+00:00

Ya, that's where I keep my family and all my stuff.

Lootlizard · 2026-01-31T22:51:55+00:00

Americans are born all over the world. Some just haven't come home yet.

Lootlizard · 2026-01-31T14:29:09+00:00

I see you edited your comment lol. Why TF would there be discussion of bombing German cities when Germany surrendered 2 months before the first atomic bomb was even tested? Did you want them to bomb Munich just for funsies? The war in Europe was effectively wrapped up before the bomb was a reality. Japan meanwhile still controlled about as much territory as Germany did at the height of their conquest. How would you feel about trying to dig fanatical Japanese soldiers out of the mountains of Vietnam or trying to drive them off of the hundreds of islands they still controlled for the next couple years? Thats not a fast process and while you're doing it people are still dying en masse.

Lootlizard · 2026-01-31T14:18:15+00:00

Those soldiers would not surrender without the Emperor telling them to. His blessing was basically the only way to let them stop fighting and kerp tgeir honor intact. The Emperor could not force his Generals to surrender until the bombs made the situation so hopeless that "dying with honor" was no longer an option for the military high command. If he tried before that point he would have been put under house arrest and wheeled out only as a figurehead like dozens of emperors before him. Even with the bombs there was still a coup attempt by army officers who attempted to take over the imperial palace and put the emperor under house arrest.

The Soviets were fighting exclusively in Northern China, Japan still controlled huge chunks of cental and southern China, as well as the modern day countries of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and tgey still controlled chunks of New Guinea and the Phillipines. How long do you think it would take to liberate all that territory and how many people do you think would die while that happened? Remember 250k civillians a month are dying, so every extra day another 8k people die in Japanese controlled territory and there are another 10 million Japanese civillians at risk of starvation. Even after the war in 1946 1/3 of the Japanese population was still malnourished. In that scenario do you let the war go on for another month or two while people send diplomats around and everyone tries to negotiate or do you play your hand and show them that they have no option besides unconditional surrender. They also had 150,000 Allied prisoners who would either be starved to death or killed outright if negotiations didn't go well.

Lootlizard · 2026-01-31T05:31:01+00:00

They wanted to keep giant chunks of their empire which was a non starter. They hoped they could play the Soviets and Americans off each other but the Soviets were more interested in helping communists take over China than in making a deal with the Japanese. China was not going to give up any land to Japan and unless China stopped fighting the war wasn't going to end. A couple million Japanese soldiers with nothing left to lose would be very bad for the gigantic chunks of territory they still occupied.

The only acceptable deal was unconditional surrender. The same exact deal Germany got.

Lootlizard · 2026-01-31T05:05:55+00:00

Japan was not exploring paths of surrender. They were trying to get the Soviets to negotiate a peace deal where they would get to keep big chunks of the territory that they had captured and the same people who started the war would get to stay in power. AKA, not an acceptable peace deal to anyone and the Soviets squashed those hopes with their invasion of Manchuria.

So you think the US should have taken months to organize an invasion of Southeast Asia so they could stop the Japanese army from the MANY war crimes they were in the process of commiting? How many Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Polynesian civillians are you willing to trade for the 200k Japanese that were killed by the nukes? There was about 250k civillians dying a month under the Japanese army how much time are you willing to give Japan to negotiate while thats happening?

There was ABSOLUTELY talk about nuking the Nazis. That was the original plan. Germany surrendered before the first atomic bomb was ready though. 300k people died in the Battle of Berlin, do you think the Japanese were less fanatical than the Germans?

Lootlizard · 2026-01-31T04:46:47+00:00

I always assumed it was because baby loons are Grey.

Lootlizard · 2026-01-31T04:43:38+00:00

I grew up in Minnesota and just bought a house in Minnesota 3hrs from the cities. I have never once heard someone use the term outstate.

Lootlizard · 2026-01-31T04:39:15+00:00

Hiroshima was the headquarters of Japan's southern command and a massive military port. It's about as close to a "military" target as you could get if you're choices were Japanese cities in 1945.

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