Polls: Society & Politics

'Free the Nipple' movement: Women can now legally go topless in 6 states - www.aol.com/.../

I found a site which says france grants refugee visa to those who come to french consulates and prove they are being persecuted

The Russia hoax has been proven a HOAX and 33,000 wiped emails with a private server running top secret classified crap. Epstein didn't kill himself along with 99+ others.

With backing of the Russian Orthodox Church…DV is legal until there’s “substantial bodily harm”…wtf?

I live in RI and my last job was in Massachussets aka one of the most hardcore blue state of the nations

I remember two of my coworkers were lesbians. of course not those hardcore "I'm a man!" or "my pronounce are they!" type of lesbians, just normal lesbian and they both use the men's room.

so I was wondering when lesbian use the men's room or vice versa does that mean that person identifies at the gender that restroom was intended for?

Top red state official demands answers on Biden executive order 'attempting to register' illegals to vote
Mississippi SOS Michael Watson says the Biden executive order creates 'numerous opportunities' for ineligible voters to vote - www.foxnews.com/.../top-red-state-official-demands-answers-biden-executive-order-attempting-register-illegals-vote

There is only one or the other. You can’t be for both abortion and the border and vote democrat, for example. One wants the border wide open and for illegals to become citizens and vote and the other wants it closed and illegals deported.

Oppenheimer won best picture. I've not seen the movie yet, but we all know the story.

I wonder... how do people view the atomic bombing of Japan... especially Japanese viewpoint.

Why?

Because from a USA perspective... without those bombings, we would have had to send in a million plus soldiers into mainland Japan to over take the military and get to the emperor. If you know the mess of Okinawa and Iwo Jima... one can only imagine. They did not want to surrender and Japanese soldiers would fight to the last man... they were serving their "god" at that time and shaming the emperor and family was worse than death. The toll would have been high and long until someone convinced a surrender.

In Japan... the reality of " the bomb" would have been awful. One can only imagine.

And so one wonders the perspective... because humanity is always faced with..."is it worth it" "did we do the right thing... to bring an end"?

The bombs were largely used against civilians... 129000 to 226,000 people died... instantly. Carpet bombing prior had cost up to 330,000 lives.

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Bonus history: Albert Einstein, whom started the idea rolling with "E=Mc2" figured out a small amount of material can produce a lot of energy... met the emperor of Japan decades before WWII!

Bonus history II: A distant relative of mine was killed by a Japanese aircraft bomb in mainland China. May she rest in peace.

All is good... the lesson to me is... humans need to think, because all of this was unnecessary wasn't it? We are much better working together cooperatively.

This quote comes from a 1966 fictional novel called 'The Fixer' by Bernard Malamud. It's about a Jewish man in the 1910s Tsarist Russia (in kiev, Ukraine now) who was wrongfully accused, is arrested and imprisoned and reused to confess. It's ultimately about antisemitism and the dangers it poses. The book was pulled from school libraries in 2022 south carolina, but was returned after further review.

Anyways what do you think of this quote?

Just read how Russia had basically stopped helping their citizens. Most likely to keep cost down and billionaire oligarchs rich.