In my experience, it's mostly a vet/military thing. Rednecks fly the actual confederate battle flag. It could be cop, but they typically fly the thin blue line flag. Subdued/monochrome flags are pretty popular accesories in military and military adjacent communities. If you check out "Grunt Style" you'll probably see dozens. And enlisted (grunts in particular) tend to skew less educated and are more entrenched in toxic ideals of masculinity, so it's no surprise to see them acting like fools on the road.
This is something I've been getting increasingly frustrated with these past couple of years, and I was starting to feel like I might be alone in it. I'm so tired of people confusing "get equal" with "get even". And to justify it, they affix themselves against some nebulous, homogeneous legion of persecutors to justify acting exactly like them but now it's somehow okay. Not to say that people can't talk about systemic oppression, but it's so exhausting when people attack eachother for having different flavors of the same goal.
The reality is that all cities considered were absolutely valid military targets. America had also been dropping leaflets with instructions to evacuate the cities and warning the populations of imminent destruction.
Furthermore, it seems people assume the bombs were dropped simultaneously or something and so Japan didn't have a chance to surrender but the reality is there were several days between the two bombings. The first bombing was immediately follow by the president of the US urging the immediate surrender of Japan. They didn't surrender over the course of several days, although the Emperor was considering it against the demands of his advisors to keep fighting. It wasn't until 3 days later they dropped the second bomb and only then was it unilaterally decided by the Emperor to surrender.
While war is a terrible thing, the dropping of the bombs probably saved millions of lives on all sides of the conflict compared to the sacrifices that would have been made under a conventional land invasion. The value of the bombs was precisely in their shock and awe, not their inflicted casualties. The fact that Japan didn't immediately surrender after the first bomb really tells you how costly a longer war could have been, for everyone involved.
The Operations Room on YouTube released a very informative video that covers pretty much a play-by-play of the days leading up to the bombings and the bombings themself. I highly recommend watching it. The atomic bombs were harrowing weapons, but I believe they were every bit necessary to stop a Japanese nation out of control on the warpath.
The whole thread is full of people who don't HumbleBundle or donate to charity having strong opinions about both. They think that because the site mentions charity that they should be given free stuff for tossing $10 to a charity and that humblebundle must be greedy for being the only business that donates any of your purchase to charity.
Do you just not know what you're talking about or are you intentionally lying?
Edit: cool so you're just lying on purpose because nothing you've said is true. I don't understand why you'd do that but okay
It's a national team, therefore they're representing their countries in an official capacity, regardless of their personal stances. It's more akin to Nazi Germany sending a team to the Olympic games and the controversy that surrounded that. That's the unfortunate nature of flags and sports, but it's how it is.
Edit: It appears the Russian fencer was participating as a neutral participant and not as a member of a Russian sponsored team. That makes it objectively unsporting on the Ukranian fencer's behalf, however subjectively I at least understand the problem. Just because the Russian fencer isn't participating as part of their national team (because their team was not allowed to participate) doesn't mean they aren't otherwise that team's fencer and are still, unofficially, representing their country.
I have just a simple Maggard synthetic brush and I don't think it's even the slightest bit scratchy. But I don't have a newer synthetic brush to compare it to so it's possible that if what you say is true then I just haven't realized changing slightly over the years.
Don't forget "Lemmy feels higher quality than reddit" followed by several hot posts that are compressed and re-reposted memes with pixel densities low enough to count.
And the "I'm glad Lemmy doesn't have the reddit hivemind" followed by posts with whole threads of comments straight out of reddit "AmericaBad" thought train.
Pretty much, all of these things can be summed up by "suddenly acting better than reddit while acting identically", I guess.
Odd that someone who has performed CPR on infants, to doing their best to save someone from multiple gunshot wounds, to scraping motorists off of asphalt is "just telling me what I want to hear" when he doesn't make out like his job is any more or less important than his teammates on the ambulance. He loves and respects those dudes because they're his teammates and they work together. But yeah, must be that you just hear what they want you to hear, so let's go ahead and leave it like that, as you said.
My father is a long-time firefighter in a major city and this comment reads like you have no idea what firefighters actually do if you think they "do nothing compared to paramedics and the ambulance crew". They're two sides of the same coin and both of them are vital to rescue operations, but firefighters aren't just some dudes who roll up and pour a bucket of water on a campfire and drive away. They're EMTs, too, and often participate in casualty care when paramedics are busy or otherwise not on scene. Do nothing, my ass.