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Sean CW Korsgaard

@SCWKorsgaard

5 years

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Sean CW Korsgaard

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This is another often ignored factor in why book sales are declining among men: Cover art. Publishing started swapping out flashy, splashy covers for generic ones, to cut costs, and because focus groups claimed it made books appeal more to female readers.

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Same book but different covers five decades apart. I'd buy the former the moment I saw it in a bookstore. I wouldn't even notice the second on the bookshelf.

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The people shocked by this ignored one key detail of the removal of Confederate names and statues: it almost never was done with majority support, has been very unpopular across party and racial lines, and when done, was nearly always done by committee or executive order.

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Virginia school board overturns old vote and renames two schools after Confederate icons

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The wife wanted to get a dog. I made an intelligent, articulate case for why we shouldn't get a dog right now. Said we should take our time, think this through. Anyway, meet our new puppy.

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@PoorlyAgedStuff Could be worse. Just ask BABY DRIVER.

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That's not Mega Virginia. THIS is Mega Virginia.

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Don’t talk to me about the founding fathers not wanting DC to be a state unless you also support Mega Virginia.

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Everybody on Twitter wants to offer their hot takes on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Fine, here's the correct one. Mine. Short version? Terrible actions that spared us far worse ones. Such is war. Long version? Lets start with two words. Downfall Ketsugō

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@BrainLeakage03 Issue is Will is arguably the best non-Jack Sparrow thing in the first movie. Hell, half of Jack's appeal was him getting to play on Will's naivete. One of the big issues with the later Pirates film is they forgot Will is the hero, and Jack Sparrow a supporting character.

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@Le_Severine_Cox That guy needed to fire his agent, badly. He had the chops, but damn near every movie he was in after Chronicle was terrible.

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Any media pivoting away from kids as a primary fanbase is sacrificing long-term viability for short-term profits. It killed comic books. It's arguably killing Western animation. I'm hoping scifi/fantasy publishing can reverse the pivot. It never works long term.

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The direct market killed mainstream American superhero comics, both economically and culturally. When they stopped being things that kids could - and would want - to pick up with their pocket money at the corner store, they were doomed.

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Afghanistan is the size of Texas, and in the middle of a Civil War. Attempts to spin Americans and Afghans who can't make it to a single airstrip in Kabul as "not wanting to leave" is reprehensible.

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It is grotesque that media repeats the political language of "Americans who want to leave," when "Americans who don't want to leave" is being used to categorize those who WANT to leave, but are being refused permission to take their Afghan families. They can't just abandon them.

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@washpostbiz Looks like ya'll need a refresher on the SPJ Code of Ethics. Or the literal definition of doxxing. Or your own reporters alleged opinions on both.

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Sorry, there's only one New Jedi Order in #StarWars . And it ain't led by Rey Palpatine.

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Half of Disney's successes and failures can be pinned on making the same move that helped and then crippled both comic books and YA lit before them. Dumping kids/families in favor of childless adult superfans with cash. Issue is... there are always more kids. Not so with fans.

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Surprising stat from Disney’s earnings call: over 50% of Disney+ subscribers are adults without kids

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The only part of Starship Troopers discourse that matters: Have you read the book? If not, would you like to know more?

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If you're looking for who to blame for the decline of the fantasy genre and opportunities for new authors, their names are George RR Martin and Patrick Rothfuss. Brandon Sanderson has, every chance he's been given, been supportive of up and coming authors and the genre as a whole

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I like Brandon Sanderson books, but it's disheartening to see him get tens of millions of dollars on his Kickstarters when so many amazing authors I know struggle to get $2000 on theirs The money IS THERE but it's all being funnelled into a handful of already rich white guys

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@Hieraaetus Bigger issue: I will NEVER root against my own species, especially when as in AVATAR, our survival is on the line. Strip mine Pandora if it saves humanity.

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@LumpyTheCook All the Eds are representative of forms of abuse. Ed? Favoritism. Edd? Neglect Eddy? Physical abuse. They're all bullied by the other kids, and the Kankers are as close to sexual abuse as a kids' show can get. Hell, the only times adults ever show up? It's to abuse an Ed.

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Countless examples exist, but not one exists where it helped sales. What's especially maddening: Focus groups be damned, I know plenty of women readers hate this change too. Thinking a woman won't buy a book because it has a dragon/rocket ship on the cover is way more sexist.

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Who else is RRReady for an encore?

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The Rage of #RRR will continue in theatres and will transcend boundaries.🔥🌊 Thank you USA for your "MASS"ive and unwavering love and support ♥️ #RRRMovie is all set to re- release in 100+ theatres on June 1st! @AlamoDC @AlamoNYC @latimes

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@tulpapilled The key is they also hired some incredible thespians and character actors to round out the cast. Like this guy for example.

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Veterans and African American groups have both been trying to get a statue of him added to Monument Avenue in Richmond for years. For good reason, Carney's MOH citation should stir even the most cynical soul.

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158 years ago tonight (July 18, 1863), Sgt William Carney refused to let the US flag (symbol of Union Army) fall, despite being wounded 5 times during the 54th's charge against Fort Wagner. Born into slavery in Norfolk, Va in 1840, Carney was the first black American to earn MoH

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@WheelsCritic I think part of the reason for this is even utter trashfires like Godzilla 98 from back in the day still have something 90 percent of films today lack: obvious craftsmanship. When everything is made in a computer, workmanship DOES look admirable.

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"You just don't like the #DoctorWho60 because you're a bigot or homophobe!" The same fans watched when RTD gave us Captain Jack Harkness, and we fucking loved it. This was just ass. #RIPDoctorWho

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@martyrmade I'm not sure the side that literally passed a law making anyone who owned 10 or more slaves exempt from conscription gets to look down on the North for how they handled the draft. Also, the percentage of Union troops that were foriegn born was less than a quarter at most.

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Polls are finally closing on #ElectionNight , and the results are... wait a minute...

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@RAZ0RFIST More accurate.

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There's no hiding it's been disastrous to genres that were especially popular to male readers though - spy novels, sword-and-sorcery, scifi, westerns, action adventure, those vivid, lurid covers drove readers to them, and imitated them everywhere from panel vans to dorm rooms.

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People have spent three days arguing back and forth over the merits/sins of the movie STARSHIP TROOPERS. Meanwhile, people who just want a good adaptation of the classic novel:

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Today, 79 years and multiple wars later, we still have more than 100,000 Purple Heart medals from that stock remaining. Every single Purple Heart recipient since WWII received a medal that was originally planned to be awarded for Operation Downfall.

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@432iO @VyceVictus I think a lot of it also has to do with who was President when many were built during WW1... Woodrow Wilson, patron saint of The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, and probably the most racist man ever to occupy the White House.

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@io9 Translation: they had a moment of clarity after they saw how people reacted to the news.

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Worst part is the wife totally had my number. "Lets just go look at these." Then as soon as I see the way her face lights up when she saw the puppies, I thought to myself: "Aw crap, no talking my way out of this one." Her name is Mocha for anyone that wanted to know.

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@BrainLeakage03 He is supposed to he - he is a direct contrast to many of the other "heroes". A plebian orphan who rises to trade blows with the Navy, pirates and zombies. Norrington would still be a blue blood.

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When popular votes to remove Confederate statues failed even in black majority parts of Virginia that Biden carried by 20 points, that should have been a sign this wasn't a winning issue. So no, I'm not shocked that we are starting to see reversals. They won't he the last.

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War is a terrible thing, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki worse than most. But it's also once of the few times in history we can say with near absolute certainty that events could have been much, much worse.

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I'm hoping it's just TMZ being TMZ. Because if not, Kobe Bryant is dead.

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And they went too far. You brought bulldozers into Arlington National Cemetery. Statues of heroes like Thomas Jefferson or Theodore Roosevelt are being removed. I owe apologies to a lot of Southerners who I mocked for saying those coming for Lee would eventually come for Lincoln.

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Booksellers are another perp. One of my favorite books by @monsterhunter45 , SON OF THE BLACK SWORD, had this Larry Elmore cover... and Barnes & Noble refused to carry it. "Too old fashioned". So it was changed. I weep for the five more Larry Elmore covers denied because of that.

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In the Army, one of my hand-to-hand instructors made a point of showing the men and women trainees this fight between Lucia Rijker and an amateur Thai boxer. Best female fighter on Earth. He walls off all her blows, knocks her out with his second.

Lucia Rijker vs Man

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The number of unfit, unskilled men claiming they can "take her" merely based on the fact that they are men... Yes, men are on average stronger. But take an unfit man in a somewhat similar weight class and she's winning.

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Meanwhile, the Allied bombing campaigns were to continue, and be increased - to those who opposed the nukes, these conventional bombings killed far more people than either nuclear bomb. The Firebombing of Tokyo alone killed more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

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This is one of the rare occasions that we can say with certainty that the alternative was worse: Operation Downfall and Operation Ketsugō. Among the upsides to the bombs ending the war is we have access to the abandoned war plans from both sides. It would have been a bloodbath.

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The last WWII Medal of Honor recipient, Woody Williams, US Marine Corps, has died. Humbling to think we're in the last few years where World War II will still be in living memory, before it becomes history. May we never let it fade entirely.

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This may or may not impact the final lineup for a reprint anthology I'm planning... Who are the definitive authors and short stories of pre-2000 sword-and-sorcery fantasy? The ones who define the genre, that everyone absolutely must read? Let me know below.

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The amount of detail into the war plans for Downfall is impressive... yet the most appalling thing about it are the projected casualties. 500,000-1 million Allied KIA/wounded 10 million Japanese combat deaths, military and civilian 10 million Japanese dead from famine.

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Disney has priced out, chased out or ignored the group that was once the very lifeblood of the company: families with kids. Maybe Disney can win them back or correct course. Because if not, there's a word for something that's lost its lifeblood. Dead.

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You have people who want to dig up Confederate graves for crying out loud. Am I going to have to someday defend my grandfather's grave because "the war against Japan was imperialism!"? Will my grandsons have to defend mine because my wars, Afghanistan and Iraq, weren't "just"?

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@evanhill @martyrmade Think he knows 1 out of 3 Southerners who fought in the American Civil War fought for the Union AGAINST the Confederacy?

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Thier biggest new attraction, the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser, is a windowless concrete bunker where you eat chicken tenders in cosplay for a weekend for price of a used car. The Most Magical Place on Earth is now Neverland for rich yuppies.

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@the_moviebob As an actual Norseman? Our history and heritage was never thiers to hijack in the first place. Anything that takes it away from neo-Nazi scumbags is a win in my book. Added bonus, I get to see Natalie Portman go a-viking.

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It's become popular these days to decry the bombings, understandable given we know much more about the consequences of nuclear warfare today than we did in 1945. By saying it was justified, I don't mean to say that what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn't horrible.

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There were pockets of Japanese soldiers who kept fighting for decades after the war, some as late as the 1970s. Notice how we never had stories of Americans still fighting in Vietnam in the 90s, or Germans taking potshots at Polish police and raiding farms in Ukraine in the 70s?

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In a year or two, America would have seen more combat dead and wounded than the entire European theater. Meanwhile, Japan would have lost between a fourth or a third of it's pre-war population. And note that those are the OPTIMISTIC numbers. They'd all be much higher.

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The Japanese had a name for this: the Glorious Death of One Hundred Million. They were prepared to fight to the last man, in hopes they took a few million GIs with them. If Japan would not win the war, they were religiously dedicated to making sure the Allies choked on victory.

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@StevenBeynon @AlexThomp I think the issue here is, this isn't some politician, public official, or person of public interest. It's a private citizen with a Twitter. And the article crosses some VERY uncomfortable ethics lines and exposes personal details I wouldn't dare to a politician or public figure.

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From a military planning POV, that kind of "fight to the death" mentality DOES NOT HAPPEN. Stalingrad, as bitter and bloody as fighting was, still had surrender and survival rates closer to 40 or 50 percent, and its one of the deadliest, most brutal battles in modern history.

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@BMakuch @VICENews For your sake, benefit of the doubt, I hope this was just really unfortunate timing. Otherwise?

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Look at the casualty rates among the Japanese at Okinawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima. Surrender almost never happened, and survivors numbered in the hundreds - the rest either killed in combat or committed suicide. You had casualty rates approaching 98% in some cases, including civilians.

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Even the Pentagon was coming to grips with how much bloodier the invasions would be than the planners said... the numbers coming in from Okinawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima were sobering realities on that.

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To name but one example, the planned Soviet invasion of Manchuria was expected to take between 500,000 and 1 million casualties to pacify the region... two to four times what they had lost taking Berlin. For all the tankies saying Soviet entry forced out Japan? Not even close.

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Apply all this to an island chain the size of California, with 70 million people mobilized and whipped into a frenzy to die gloriously for the Emperor. An Island full of Stalingrads... Iwo Jima and Saipan times a hundred. If your blood ran cold, that just means you have a pulse.

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And I say this as someone who wrote his history thesis on the myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy: the levels of malicious joy and iconoclasm from the people pushing for removal has been creepy and off-putting. Not a great when you can fit in a lineup beside these clowns.

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@TheCriticalDri2 Always share this anytime Martin announces anything.

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There would be no glorious final battle, no bold last stand, no "Glorious Death of One Hundred Million". We possessed the means to exterminate Japan, and they had no means to counter. Surrender or Extermination. THAT was the choice, burned in atomic flame.

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That's starting to bear some bitter fruit. Disneyland was once designed to be an affordable family vacation. A family of four could go for just over $100 bucks as late as the 90s. A single ticket now costs almost twice that. They literally priced out Disney's former core demo.

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@BrndnStrssng What's crazier is every one of those movies cost near or over $300 million to make. When your movie costs more than a space shuttle, there's no excuse for effecrs this awful.

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The scary thing is that Japanese war plans, Operation Ketsugō, were a near perfect counter to Downfall. Unfortunately, one of the nasty things about invading the Japanese Home Islands is that there are only two possible directions of attack - Kyushu and the Kanto plains.

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@JohnDiLillo Whomever thought letting Awkwafina rap was a good idea needs to be put in front of The Hague.

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It's well known 1 million Purple Heart medals were made to be awarded to wounded soldiers participating in the first wave of Downfall, one the Pentagon expected to be butchered on the beaches of Kyushu.

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Instead, Japan did surrender. The war ended. Downfall and Ketsugō would remain only on the drawing board. 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki died. Tens of millions of people across both sides of the Pacific lived.

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Today, we have access to war plans from both sides, and the Japanese defense plans, while not perfect, for the initial phases of any invasion of the Home Islands, are a nearly ideal counter to Allied invasion plans. The only thing they didn't account for was nuclear weapons.

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@royCharlespark2 How Tankies think a Soviet invasion of Japan would end: Red Japan! How a Soviet invasion of Japan would ACTUALLY end: Stalin's Tsushima

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@VyceVictus It's called Monster Hunter International, and the first line alone will sell the entire franchise: "One one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window."

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Comics enjoyed one decade of wild success after dumping kids and spinner racks for collectors and the direct market. Then the 90s crash it sparked damn near killed the entire industry, and Scholastic and manga eat thier lunch by focusing on selling to the kids they abandoned.

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This is before we factor in WMDs and their aftermath... because Japan still gets nuked in this scenario. Now we're sending American GIs through within hours of bombing the beaches, without no radiation protection. We had no clue what we were dealing with nuclear weapons.

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@souljagoytellem @alt_historian Not to mention they cropped out a very important detail: that one of the soldiers is laughing too. Given the time and location, probably at the expense of the Russians.

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@LavenderGhast Pictured: A subversion of the masculine ideal, apparently.

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The scale of the operation was daunting. Both would have dwarfed the Normandy landings in terms of both manpower and operational complexity. More than a million men would have been involved in both, and over 500 ships, including 42 aircraft carriers, from every Allied nation.

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@alt_historian @classicvirtues Eh... that can be debated somewhat. Even at the time, a lot of diplomats thought Versailles all but guaranteed a second war. And were proven right.

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The Japanese forces in Kyushu were armed to the teeth, heavily entrenched, and armed with everything from what was left of the Japanese air force to chemical weapons. Southern Kyushu - the crux of Operation Olympic - was one of the most fortified places on Earth in late 1945.

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Even this very nearly wasn't enough. Even while Hirohito took to the airwaves to surrender, there was an attempted coup by military hardliners determined to continue the war. This, what would become known as the Kyūjō incident, is technically the last battle of WWII.

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For the uninitiated, Operation Downfall was the two pronged Allied war plan to invade the Japanese Home Islands, with Operation Olympic set to capture Kyushu, and Operation Coronet set to land troops to invade the Kanto plain on Honshu.

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@starwars Wow. You guys barely waited a full month after Dave Farland/Dave Wolverton died to cash in and rehash his most famous contribution to Star Wars. You know, after refusing to credit him for creating Dathomir and the Nightsisters for years.

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This is where the choice to drop the atom bomb came in... looking over the possibility of millions of further Allied and Japanese dead, President Truman decided to try a Hail Mary pass, to try these so-called superweapons, and see if they could bring Japan to the table.

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Across the home lands, civilians were being whipped into a frenzy, armed with everything from hunting rifles to fishing spears, young children, women and old men being ordered to die for the Empire.

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The first black MOH recipient, and one of Virginia's own... I have said for years he needed to be added to Monument Avenue.

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“Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!” - Sgt. William Harvey Carney, 54th Mass. Regiment, First black Medal of Honor recipient for his actions protecting our flag in combat. He never let it touch the ground despite being shot twice. #Hero

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@AlanMCole Probably doesn't help that EA just kinda stopped making Sim City games, and largely cannibalized Maxis, as EA does. The demand didn't go away just because EA refused to meet it.

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After days of debate, Emperor Hirohito would force the hands of the Japanese military, issuing a surrender over the airwaves... begging the Japanese people "to bear the unbearable". The man who Japan considered a god, whose voice many had never heard, asked them to surrender.

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@SCWKorsgaard

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His life story would inspire Captain America, GI Joe, and John Rambo. More importantly, he was the first high profile veteran to speak openly and frankly about what would become known as PTSD, which would aid and help thousands of Murphy's fellow veterans, including myself.

Military History Now

@MilHistNow

5 years

Today in 1945, a 19-yr-old US Army lieutenant from Kingston, Texas named Audie Murphy leaps aboard a burning American tank and single-handedly holds off a German assault with a .50 cal machine gun. He will later be awarded the Medal of Honor and star in his own Hollywood biopic.

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@SCWKorsgaard

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All of this doesn't even touch on the ongoing war outside of the Japanese Home Islands, with fighting continuing everywhere from Manchuria to Indonesia. Fighting which would have continued without the atom bombs, at the price of hundreds of thousands of lives.

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@SCWKorsgaard

2 years

Hell, even today, the most popular Star Wars merch is all focused on the same three characters kids have loved since 1977: Luke, Leia and Han. Characters whom the Disney sequels all turned into miserable failures they promptly killed off one by one.

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@SCWKorsgaard

1 year

Don't you have some 3/10 cranked out by a megacorp comic book movie to go sob over, or are you just obsessively searching your name for anyone dunking on you to work up the tears?

KevinSmith

@ThatKevinSmith

1 year

But I’d already made Clerks Mallrats Chasing Amy Dogma Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back and Jersey Girl by 2004. If you wanna “save cinema”, you gotta go back to 1993 while I was shooting my first flick at Quick Stop. That’d sure erase my life. Or you could just get one of your own.

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@SCWKorsgaard

5 months

In all but the most devoted of hardliners, the will to fight to the death died with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They were the first to realize the reality of how atomic weapons had changed warfare, even before we did:

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Sean CW Korsgaard

@SCWKorsgaard

3 months

@KP11Studios @crit_awards Jews ARE the indigenous people of Israel, and have lived there since the Bronze Age, despite multiple waves of conquest, exile, and genocide directed towards them. Or where you not paying attention at seder, when it ends with "Next Year in Jerusalem!"?

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Sean CW Korsgaard

@SCWKorsgaard

3 years

@TheCriticalDri2 Me months ago: Surely they wouldn't spend hundreds of millions of dollars only for it to suck, right? Me after watching what they did to Wheel of Time:

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@SCWKorsgaard

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@maj_retd_fox For what its worth? Us Yanks are every inch as pissed as the folks across the pond. Probably more so.

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Sean CW Korsgaard

@SCWKorsgaard

2 years

Just look at toy sales - even at its pre-Disney low point, Star Wars merch/action figures were ubiquitous. Every kid in America had a few, often of characters who don't even have a line in the movies. Meanwhile, you could be forgiven for thinking Rey's last name was "Clearance".

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Sean CW Korsgaard

@SCWKorsgaard

5 months

So no, I'm not at all shocked there's been a backlash or reversals. And yes, there will probably many more. It was never popular, and subsequent actions and attitudes from the removal crowd ensured that it probably never will be.

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@SCWKorsgaard

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Two planes took off, two bombs fell, two cities went up in thermonuclear flame, and the world entered the Atomic Age. The impact the bombings on the Japanese government was immediate.

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