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sakebytheriver · 1 year ago
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I don't really know what to say about Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan's newest glorification of white violence, I truly don't have a strong opinion either way nor do I have much to say on the film other than I hope the movie itself is less about glorifying Oppenheimer as some American folk hero and more about the massacre and devestation caused by the bombs
And on a personal note, the Japanese side of my family literally came from a suburb of Hiroshima. Of course, my great grandfather left Hiroshima with his brother long before WWII started and he settled in Hawai'i while his brother settled in Salinas Valley CA, when the war broke out the Salinas Valley branch of our family was all sent to the internment camps and two of my great uncles who left Hawai'i for the mainland were also interned along with their spouses and children, the only reason my grandmother and her family weren't interned is because there were just too many Japanese in Hawai'i to intern them, they were 60% of the population, interning Hawaiian Japanese would have meant capsizing Hawai'i's economy, (it didn't stop them from making a few internment camps for influential Japanese community leaders in Hawai'i though). Before the bombs were dropped, a distant relative of mine, a second cousin twice removed or something like that, went back to Japan, they went back to Hiroshima, back to where my family first came from. They went home to family
And then the bombs dropped.
And for months upon months, my family thought they were dead. They were finally able to contact our family and say they were still alive. They got lucky and didn't die in the bombing, but their story is an outlier, and my family got really really lucky in that regard. Of course, I have no idea about the family we still had in Hiroshima before my great grandfather left, but there's no doubt in my mind that I lost family when those bombs dropped, there's no doubt in my mind that a piece of my family history was destroyed, there is not doubt in my mind that there is forever an indelible mark on my family for the rest of time all because the US wanted to test out their fancy new toy that they made their pet scientist Oppenheimer build
I don't care about Oppenheimer, I care about the family I will never get to know
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thefallenangelsgang · 1 year ago
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Fuck it, I'm curious
PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN OPPENHEIMER:
NO CHEATING AND TALK ABOUT IT IN THE TAGS PLEASE <3
I just want to know who has ACTUALLY seen what atomic bombs do to the human body. Oppenheimer almost purposefully didn't show what it actually looked like.
Please share because I want a large pool of people <3
(and this is the only post on my acc I give permission for anyone to blaze!)
Proceed at your own risk if you choose to look the photos up. They are horrifying.
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murasakikagekitsune · 2 years ago
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Original Cursed Technique: 影激減/Kage no Geki (trans. Shadow Puppet Theatre)
Asano-sama has an ability that's odd, for lack of a better word, given His nature as a River Kitsune. He can wield the light and shadows around Him in order to create puppets to do things for Him. They are controlled by gestures that mimic the action He wants to perform. You could argue that this is just run-of-the-mill telekinesis, and you'd be right, to a point, but drawing power from the light and shadows in the environment (or rather, the energy within them) is the key difference.
To me, it seems like He's always been to do this - create temporary vessels for the dead - and it feels separate to the fact He is a River Kitsune because most of Their powers are hydrokinetic. I know that zenko may have powers over everything, but Asano-sama seems like the kind of Being to tie His sense of self to His local geography, so He won't use powers that take Him too far from His place or sense of origin - that would be a river. Specifically, Asano-sama comes from the Otagawa, or the Ota River - that feeds into why He uses Kage no Geki more now, rather than His childhood; He has to, because of His catastrophic vision loss in 1945. This also is the reason Kage no Geki we (meaning Asano-sama and myself) think of it a Cursed Technique instead of a superpower or Quirk; there are negative emotions hidden in the shadows and in the fragments of people's souls. This, if you consider the Shinto view of animism, also applies to objects - He can befriend the object if it's more than 100 years old or pass on the soul of a puppet to an object so it becomes their vessel.
While, in truth, Kage no Geki was always a personal Cursed Technique, it was only recently classified as such because of it its rise in usage - the nuclear fallout of Hiroshima gave Him plenty of shadows to befriend.
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zafiro-anyejo · 2 years ago
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Watching HBO’s Chernobyl and forgot why I didn’t finish it until I remembered the awful radiation/cancer-phobia anxiety pipeline it sent me down the first time. 
Guess I’m watching Ted Lasso as a cheerful palette cleanser. 
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blackcross-3 · 2 years ago
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CW: Terrorism, War crimes, mentioned suicide bombing, death
Ok, so I saw a YT short about MSFS banning you if you try to go to 9/11.
And, because I am an Idiot, I decided to take a look at the comment, in which people discussed (suprisingly not argueing) about the attack on the twin towers justifying the 'global war on terror'. And while I wasn't yet born in September 2001, I do have an Opinion on it:
No
Not. In. Any. Fucking. Way.
Because, after the war started, a new terrorist organization rose up and wreaked havoc in the middle east, going from country to country...
Its name?
The U.S. military
By this I do not mean soldiers put a bomb west on and blew themselves up.
But imagine for a second you would have to live in fear of being hit by a 30mm auto cannon of a helicopter, that is so far away you cannot even hear it, unless you listen closely. You could die just because some guy 'mistook' your camera for a weapon.
This actually happened by the way. In 2007 (4 years after the end of the Iraq war) in Iraq a small group of people, and a bystander with two children trying to help the survivors got shot by an Apache attack helicopter from a distance of about 400m(1200ft) away while using armor piercing ammunition.
And do you know why we know that?
Because a journalist found the recording of the optical system that was involved in the incident (link at the bottom). And he found out that this was no exception.
Over the course of the Iraqi an Afghanistan war and beyond about 15 000 civilians were killed by U.S. troops and no one responsible has been punished for it.
Julian Paul Assange, the above mentioned journalist, however is in danger of a 175 year prison sentence.
Why?
Well, according to the U.S. he is being accused of treason and leaking of classified information.
But you know that is utter bullshit.
No matter how you bend the circumstances: publishing a video is no possible way worse than commiting literal fucking war crimes
The terrifying thing is that this was not only able to happen, but that it is also just swept under the rug so easily.
But to know why this is possible, we just have to go back to August 1945: Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After the USA dropped two nuclear weapons of mass destruction on civilian non militarised cities, the justification was a 'quick' end to the war, which would otherwise have been a hard and bloody battle for the Japanese mainland.
Even though Japan surrendered only an entire month after the bombs were dropped.
Even though the U.S.A had the most advanced military technology of the time.
Even though there might be indication of this literally being test explosions to see the size of the damage.
'But, hey, ',some of you may say,
'that doesn't matter, because back in the day bombing civilians was not yet a warcrime!'
So was the systemetic trackdown and industrial efficient murder on 6 million innocent jewish people not a warcrime yet.
I mean listen to Hiroshima and Nagasaki put this way: The USA bombed two cities instead of military targets at a time when their reconaissance bombers could fly so high, that the Japanese had no chance of shooting them down and had no ressources left to even fight with.
Now this is not to say, that the Japanese had not commited war crimes, but that is off topic.
What I am saying, however, is that while in Germany you are opening a school book about WW2 and learn about Propaganda and war crimes through analysis of propaganda posters and seeing pictures of piled up bodies, in the USA you learn that the two nuclear weapons dropped on civilian cities were neccesary.
According to Wikipedia about 230 000 people died because of the detonation and after effects, while in the entire pacific war 130 000 U.S. soldiers lost their lives.
They killed almost twice as many people in two days, as the Japanese did in almost four years
Think about that for a moment...
Because as far as I know that is not really taught in U.S. schools, which means that someone reading this might have just now found out about it.
I think you can learn a lot about a countries politics by looking at how they handle the crimes they have commited in war.
Germany is teaching every student, not only that ignorance can lead to horrible things, but that Germany has commited atrocities which it can never forget and will never forget as the debt to all the victims of the holocaust is infinite.
Meanwhile America is teaching students, that killing about twice the amount of people that have died as soldiers in war is justifyable. Even if those people are civilians and include children.
This is why this happens.
Because the topic of the U.S.A commiting war crimes has continuesly been swept under the rug.
Do you think the death of 3000 innocent people is enough to justify the killing of 15 000 people, who are just as innocent?
If you do, then you have no problem with collateral murder.
If you do than you support the death of the 12 innocent people and two children, who are being killed in this video
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imsociallyanxiousgetoverit · 6 months ago
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Has anyone ever written about Steve’s reaction to finding out about the atomic bombs (once he came out of the ice) because I feel like it would greatly interest more than myself
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bracketsoffear · 1 year ago
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Tws: nuclear warfare, mention of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
I was going to submit Godzilla again for the vast but I've come to realize that Godzilla much better represents the Desolation. Gojira was originally created as a way to characterize the devastation of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Gojira is an incomprehensibly massive creature, yes, but the core of the fear of Gojira is not it's physical size but the scale of it's damage. Gojira is an enormous, unfathomable creature capable of leveling cities in minutes.
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indisalive · 1 year ago
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My 2 Favorite Movies of Summer 2023
I watched a bunch of movies from June to July of this year, and I've come to the conclusion that my two favorite movies this summer are Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Oppenheimer.
While Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One was enjoyable and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts was fun (especially as a Transformers fan), Across the Spider-Verse and Oppenheimer are two movies that have stuck with me since I've watched them.
So, this is not really a review per se but just an unfocused dumping of my thoughts about them.
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
I had been anticipating this movie since early this year, as did a lot of people. I was blown away by the animation and style that was shown by the trailers, so by the time it hit theaters I was hyped as hell. I initially wanted to see it with friends but their agendas didn't line up with when I wanted to so I ended up watching with my family much to my chagrin.
Anyway, I had such a blast watching the movie. I ended up watching it for a second time though I missed the intro sequence (embarrassing) but I still had a good time. Most of what I'm writing are much the same as other people so I'm going to be quick.
The animation was amazing (no pun intended), I love how the different universes are depicted in different art styles. I love the writing, how the characters and plot are written and the themes and it being kind of a commentary on your typical Spider-Man story. That ending sequence gave me chills, like, it was almost like the movie became a horror movie. It's clear that the movie was made with love, passion and care for art, animation and Spider-Man.
Overall, this movie was spectacular and it's likely that it'll be held as the new standard for animated movies in the future. That is until Beyond the Spider-Verse comes out and blows this movie out of the water like this movie did with Into.
It's such a shame this movie was produced under such abysmal conditions. Justice for the animation industry! It deserves so much better, man.
OPPENHEIMER
TW: Discussion of nuclear devastation
To be honest with you, I didn't much care about this movie before I watched it. I remember being ambivalent about it when the movie was first revealed. Later, out of the blue my dad suggested to my family that we go watch it and I joined mostly because I was like, "Eh, what the hell."
The movie was not what I expected.
For one thing, it didn't glorify the atomic bomb like I thought, even though it didn't show the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the impact it had on the people of Japan. And, forgive me if I wrote out of turn, I don't think it needed to. For Oppenheimer (the character), the devastation was far away but just like during the Trinity nuclear test, he could still feel its effects even from far away.
Anyway, enough with the tangent. Let's talk about the actual goddamn movie.
It's definitely a Christopher Nolan movie featuring a non-linear story structure and epic and grand scope and presentation, with an extensive cast of actors, who I think did great with their portrayals. I could tell that every part of this movie was carefully crafted, everything from the casting, cinematography, production design, and special effects and visual effects, etc. are all executed with astonishing results. They recreated the Trinity bomb test with PRACTICAL EFFECTS I think that's fucking crazy.
This movie was so good, the ending, for the first time in a long time, left me with an actual fear of a nuclear holocaust, like, good g-d. If you want to talk about the politics of this movie, I'll tell you that it's clearly an anti-war film.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to see Barbie so I didn't participate in the Barbenheimer craze.
Overall, Oppenheimer is an excellent film. I don't think I have much more to write.
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Thanks for indulging me during this trainwreck of a Tumblr post. I just wanted to talk about these two movies.
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castrateurfate · 2 years ago
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another year, another day when a tragedy such as the bombing of nagasaki and hiroshima is just thrown to the side whilst the government who comitted such a horrendous crime has yet to apologise for it. instead, they celebrate.
fuck you, america. the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki was one of the worst human rights abuses of the 20th century and the fact it isn't considered as much of a tragedy as 9/11 just shows how down-right fucked the american people are.
fuck you, america. fuck you, americans.
rest in peace to those murdered in nagasaki and hiroshima. may such a tragedy never hurt you again.
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what if sonic hated white people
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My #1 post of 2022
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like the whole southener aesthetic is pretty rad, just needs to be gayer and commier
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hey can someone fucking explain to me what the fuck happened here.
insanity.
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murasakikagekitsune · 2 years ago
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New Hetalia Child OC Profile
Affiliated Country - Japan 
Local Personification - Hiroshima
Human Name - Kurosawa Reo/Reo Kurosawa  Kanji - 怜緒  黒澤 (written in the Western order of forename first).
Human age - 8-13 years old (or rather, he appears as such; given his short height, it’s hard to tell).
Vitality Status - Historical Fragment, Former Personification of Hiroshima
Personal History - Much like HRE or Prussia, Reo used to be the general personification of Hiroshima, but the atomic bombing of the city caused his temporary death, since the land had been poisoned and no one was living there. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki's personifications actually died during this time, meaning that their respective prefectures had to take on their duties. By the time Reo came back into existence (he was still slightly sick from the radiation - think something like juvenile arthritis) the prefectures decided that Reo was too vulnerable to carry on his civic tasks (not to mention that they noticed that he was still ill - cities, prefectures and states heal even quicker than Nations because they cover less area) and demoted him for his own safety.
Another anomaly the prefectures took note of is that a newer, different personification materialised shortly after Reo was downgraded; the prefectures knew that the cultures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in particular were irrevocably changed after 1945, and so someone new was needed to rebirth, but the odd thing about this occasion was that Reo still existed after this. Usually, when a Nation is reborn and gains a new title (like HRE becoming Germany) the original personification dies in order to make way for the new one. Clearly, that was not the case with Reo - once again, the prefectures knew that the people of Hiroshima had, whether subconsciously or not, chosen him to represent the memory of their city's atomic bombing.
As long as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima exists as an event in public memory, so too does Reo.
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oloreaa · 3 years ago
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Utterly infuriating how in every historical documentary about either WWII or the Cold War it is always only White-centric, and any kind of East Asian or South East Asian perspective is utterly ignored; they are either seen as little children who cannot understand the complexities of war and need to be guided by the all knowing White people, or as barbaric animals, who deserve the fate they suffer under the colonialists that suppress their country :D
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wearejapanese · 4 years ago
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Cary Karacas (@CaryKaracas) is associate professor of geography at the City University of New York-College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center. David Fedman (@dfedman) is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Together, they maintain JapanAirRaids.org, a bilingual digital archive.
On Aug. 1, 1945, 12-year-old Hideko Sudo went to bed fully clothed and full of worry. For days, air raid alerts had left the coastal city of Toyama on edge, prompting her school's closure. More alarmingly, earlier that day, American planes had rained down leaflets warning of an imminent attack.
Hideko's fears proved well-founded. Despite a sophisticated alert system and a decade of air defense drills, the arrival just after midnight of a wave of B-29 bombers plunged Toyama into chaos. Superfortresses — 173 of them — encountered only sparse antiaircraft fire as they released around 1,500 tons of incendiaries onto the city's center.
In a few short hours, Toyama was enveloped by a "sea of fire," Hideko recalled in a written account. Over 95% of the city was incinerated, leaving around 2,600 people dead. While Hideko's family survived, they numbered among the 165,000 left homeless, virtually the entire population.
With the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings upon us, we would do well to retrieve the burning of Toyama from the margins of public memory. For too long, scholarly predilections and public fascination with the atomic bomb have divorced the mushroom clouds from the firestorms that preceded them.
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smol-boy-akim · 4 years ago
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Here's a little fun fact (that's not too fun):
In 1949 (Akim was 14) the United States created an atomic bomb far more deadly than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US keep threatning to bomb the USSR. There was even a scare, where the US almost agreed to launch the atomic bomb. Children in the USSR had to constantly live in fear from 1949 to 1991. Akim spent the last years of his life living in fear of the United States.
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aloeveraspeaks · 5 years ago
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Does anyone have information on why America didn't need to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I need it for a class.
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that-fruitsbasketcase · 4 years ago
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Interesting article that doesn’t give Stimson an instant pass for respecting Japanese cultural landmarks. A good read if you want some new info.
i learned that Kyoto was actually at the top of the list of targets for the atomic bomb, not Nagasaki nor Hiroshima. Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordered for the ancient city with its thousands of palaces, temples, and shrines to be removed from the list, but the military kept on putting it back (x)
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organizedstudy · 7 years ago
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This vocabulary list is based on @blackteaandlanguages‘s Japanese version. 
andra världskriget - Second World War atombomben - atomic bomb blixten/ljusskenet - flash bomben - bomb bombflygplanet - bomber (aircraft) brinna (brann brunnit) - burn censurera (censurerade censurerat) - to censor dö (dog dött) - to die döda (dödade dödat) - to kill fel - wrong gömma (gömde gömt), undanhålla (undanhöll undanhållit) - to conceal, to hide hemskt, fruktansvärd/t - horrible, terrible hettan, värmen - heat Hiroshima - Hiroshima hålla tyst (höll tyst) - to keep silent elden - fire, conflagration eldstormen - firestorm explodera (exploderade exploderat) - to explode Fat Man - Fat Man förstöra (förstörde förstört) - destroy Japan - Japan  kapitulera (kapitulerade kapitulerat) - to surrender kriget - war kärnvapen kärnvapnet - nuclear weapon lidandet - suffering Little Boy - Little Boy Nagasaki - Nagasaki offer offret - victim  oförsvarbart - unjustifiable   onödigt - unnecessary  radioaktivt - radioactive  radioaktivt nedfall/regn det radioaktiva nedfallet/regnet - black rain  släppa (släppte släppt) - to drop  smärtan - pain  strålningen - radiation strålsjukan - acute radiation syndrome  svampmolnet - mushroom cloud tryckvågen/chockvågen - bomb blast, shock wave    USA - United States of America 
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