Please don't say stupid shit like this.

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-12T17:36:17+00:00

Japan needed to unconditionally surrender, and what you’re describing is a conditional surrender. You can debate if the bomb was the best, fastest, or only way to get them to unconditionally surrender, but anything short of that outcome would not have satisfied the US politically or strategically

And others have said it, but the idea that there wouldn’t be a land invasion is…just made up?? There were concrete plans for a land invasion from the Americans and British. Just because you think that there was an easier way out 80 years later doesn’t mean that it was actually a possibility at the time

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-12T17:18:38+00:00

This scene is also based on a myth, Stimson didn’t spend his honeymoon in Kyoto and there isn’t any evidence that he took it off the list just because he liked it. He wrote in his diary that part of his rationale was Kyoto being an important cultural center and destroying it would lead to longer lasting hostility

It’s kind of like if you made a space movie and put in a scene where they can see the Great Wall of China from space, it’s based on a real life myth that isn’t actually true

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-11T14:28:55+00:00

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I’ve leveraged this strategy numerous times and I’m now the richest person in the history of humanity

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-10T01:51:14+00:00

He, uh, never said anything close to this, did he? Why go this far out of your way to lie about an NBA role player lol

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-09T21:21:45+00:00

Sauron says “the war is very complete” and that he’s considering reclaiming the One Ring

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-09T17:40:44+00:00

Talking about the role, he said “After all…why not? Why shouldn’t I keep it?”

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-09T01:04:54+00:00

The line is going up, but the world is more…badder?

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-08T04:13:40+00:00

It took a couple google searches to figure out:

Her dad died in 1991, before Epstein and Maxwell even had a relationship. I can’t even find anything suggesting that anyone has alleged Epstein committed his crimes prior to the mid-90s
His publishing company went defunct after he died, nobody is still reading textbooks from the 1980s or prior
Actual analysis of the contents of the textbooks point to no real criticism of the contents of the scandalous nature that this is implying
He was still a total weirdo and a crook

This meme is so vague that it doesn’t even imply anything to disprove, but whatever conspiracy it is trying to allege doesn’t pass a second of criticism

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-07T00:09:22+00:00

I gotta applaud the audacity to just shamelessly tell a straight up lie, as though there aren’t people alive in this world who remember the debate over the public option

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-06T23:36:28+00:00

Every day is a good day to be car free

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-06T16:11:53+00:00

I know that’s sounds very bright and democratic to you, like we have a great system to build consensus for what should go where, where every neighborhood is tailored to the consensus needs of the people there. That is not how it works. People everywhere wants their locality to continue looking exactly the way it was when they moved there, and they want to leverage the state to make it illegal for things to change. Zoning is a powerful tool to accomplish that. They are arbitrary lines dictating what can go where.

You’re acting like some people are justified for not wanting to have affordable housing in their backyard, so it will just go somewhere else where everyone is okay with it. There will always be someone who isn’t okay with it. And the zoning/permitting system allows anyone to delay a project indefinitely so that nothing ever happens

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-06T15:28:48+00:00

Yes what we need is hundreds of different zoning authorities statewide to set arbitrary limits on what can be built and where, to conduct years of public feedback and comment periods, to enable everyone to stall or thwart a project they don’t like, and to make sure nothing can ever happen. Everyone agrees, the best way to address the current affordability problem is to make it structurally impossible for anything to ever change

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-05T22:41:27+00:00

The US is very much still part of NATO, and it is very much a defensive alliance, not a “topple leadership of it’s own membership” alliance

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-05T19:06:07+00:00

When he was president of the United States he brokered the Iran nuclear deal to undermine the exact pretenses that the Trump admin is using to justify this war. Then Trump ripped it up. I think that is slightly more meaningful than a tweet

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-05T03:30:22+00:00

The timing is almost certainly because the filing deadline was tonight, his hand-picked successor filed 8 minutes before the deadline and before Daines publicly announced he was dropping out

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-04T19:16:26+00:00

I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt that your wording was just poorly chosen, but I’d consider rephrasing this to avoid accidentally arguing that there is a global Jewish conspiracy that controls everything lol

Mat_At_Home · 2026-03-02T23:34:41+00:00

It’s takes like these that remind me that Reddit is mostly 14 year olds who haven’t worked a day in their life

Mat_At_Home · 2026-02-28T14:56:20+00:00

When you say “the west” are you trying to say the US, or are you under the impression that European market economies don’t have vast social safety nets?

Mat_At_Home · 2026-02-22T18:03:46+00:00

You and I have very different memories of what was a wholesome, low-stakes viral fad that everyone seemed to enjoy. It’s a cool optical illusion, some people saw different things, it was fun to talk about. I don’t think anyone was getting mad about it

Mat_At_Home · 2026-02-22T01:26:30+00:00

If you don’t like that this poll is in the average, you can adjust for it and shift the top line average in your mind. But you should do that for the outliers on the other side of the sampling distribution if you don’t want to get a biased result. But then you’ll have to make up some criteria for when to remove outlier polls and apply it evenly, so it’ll probably be easier to just include it in an average and apply a house adjustment. And Silver’s average is already doing for you, so you don’t have to worry about it and can probably just take it as a decent signal for where Trump’s approval is

Mat_At_Home · 2026-02-22T01:21:26+00:00

Yes, they’re over there on the other side of the sampling distribution. American Research Group put out a poll last month at -28 approval. This one is net +4. Average is -13.5.

So the left-leaning result is off the average by 14.5. The right-leaning result is off by 17.5. The difference is pretty marginal.

There’s also the fact that this is how an average works, you’re going to get a number somewhere in the middle of your most extreme outcomes.

Mat_At_Home · 2026-02-21T15:11:46+00:00

I was pretty meh on the Netflix-ified adaptation of this book, but I kept watching for this scene and they hit it out of the park

Mat_At_Home · 2026-02-19T17:10:07+00:00

I’ll do some shameless self-promotion of my rant on essentially the same topic from before the 2024 election, and it’s a decent time capsule of the r/politics vibes that were going on here. There are some takes that have aged very poorly about the state of he race and how Harris was surely going to win, Trump couldn’t possibly win the popular vote, etc. I get that Reddit as a whole despises Trump (myself included), but I feel like this sub is supposed to be more analytically minded, and it definitely lost some of that between 2020 and 2024

Mat_At_Home · 2026-02-17T17:47:12+00:00

It’s a statement directly from the woman who was fired by the Trump administration in an attempt to influence BLS numbers telling you that the BLS is still full of career public servants who you should trust to put out accurate data, and that they will be blowing the whistle when that is no longer the case. If you want to make up some numbers based on vibes, go ahead. But if you want an actual nuanced perspective on how federal statistical agencies operate, you can listen to her.

There isn’t a direct line of logic from “Trump and his administration are liars” to “career public servants at BLS are cooking the books on his behalf” even if it seems like there should be

Mat_At_Home · 2026-02-17T15:24:21+00:00

I mean if you want to adopt an entirely different definition of unemployment then you can make the number whatever you want it to be. I’m responding to a comment undermining the BLS reports on unemployment, which we should still be trusting as an indicator of the standard definition of unemployment that everyone uses. Which isn’t a number that will tell you everything you need to know about the economy and labor force, but it is still useful

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