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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This happened during the recent Euro Football Championship as well where despite a total ban on political adornment the German captain sported a rainbow armband throughout the tournament because the organizers had decided it 'wasn't political'.

Based Jap analysis of the average bug supporter of diversity and my favourite comment:

I haven't seen the opening ceremony, so I saw it for the first time, but it looks like cotton candy or shaved ice ... I think, what is diversity? For diversity, those who are in favor of the ruler and who are weak are more likely to put up with it.

[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Japan should've never attacked pearl harbor. It set off the dominos that led to the hell we live in today. Most likely the US would've entered the war sooner or later but a year's delay could've been decisive. Without the massive US aid, its debatable if the British could've held on on North Africa or the Soviets could've defeated the German summer offensive in 1942.

Those would go onto have snowball effects later on. The US took a year to mobilize fully. Without huge US intervention in Italy and North Africa, Germany would not be forced to divert a fifth of its eastern front fighting strength and the Soviets thus would not have been able to push west in 1943. With US air power arriving a year later, Germany would not have been bombed in 1943, allowing the Germans to fully mobilize war production by 1944 as they had originally intended.

The ruhr bombing in early 1943 prevented Gemran monthly aircraft production from rising from 1200 to 2000 in that year. Plus German production in all weapons categories would've greatly accelerated and would stand higher in 1944. Thus slowing any potential soviet advance.

All in all, its debatable if the Soviets could've advanced at all had the US entered the war one year later.

In fact, without the Japanese attack, the US might not have entered the war at all. The public was deeply set against a conflict. And without American intervention in the war, the allies would've lost. Britain would've been starved into submission and the Soviets would've fought Germany to a standstill.

[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Japan should've never attacked pearl harbor. It set off the dominos that led to the hell we live in today. Most likely the US would've entered the war sooner or later but a year's delay could've been decisive.

Even if they didn't launch an attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese would still be invading the Philippines. This would naturally result in the U.S. declaring war on them, the same as it historically did. The only difference is that there would not be as much public support for war against Japan. Pearl Harbor did have the effect of infuriating Americans and galvanizing them. Without it, perhaps FDR wouldn't have been given a blank cheque to do whatever the hell he wanted in terms of prosecuting the war?

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The samurai was castrated a long time ago.