Sorry sunshine. At the very least glance over a Wikipedia article instead. Using the auto complete slopbots will likely mean you know less coming out than going in. They're an ignorance generator
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The ONLY thing I took from gpt was the racism part. That's what the book was about. Did you even read the book? Because my assertion had nothing to do with the book beyond it's overall focus. The specifics I mentioned are not part of the book and did not come from chatgpt.
aug 29, 2025, 9:51 am • 0 0 • view
You don't need to have read the book, or own it, or even sit through an entire history podcast episode or video. Just skim read the wiki or an enclyopedia for 20 seconds
aug 29, 2025, 10:00 am • 6 0 • view
The fact that your first move was to "ask chatgpt" speaks volumes. Its an antitool. Nothing it says can be trusted and trusting it is a sign of a lazy and flawed character and ethics. Its not 2023. We KNOW how unreliable it is as a source of any information
aug 29, 2025, 9:56 am • 38 0 • view
Brother, you don't get to ask people if they even read the book when the whole problem is that you did not want to because Lazy You're getting a real spanking on this thread and you deserve it
aug 29, 2025, 12:46 pm • 2 0 • view
The fact that nobody will address my contention about the tactical necessity of the firebombing makes me believe they haven't because they keep acting like I also got that opinion from chatgpt.
aug 29, 2025, 12:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Both Dreden and Tokyo firebombings are considered crimes against humanity by every historian with an ounce of integrity and perspective. As to racism being a factor, you should consider asking why it was Hiroshima and Nagasaki that were nuked and not Berlin.
aug 29, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Unconditional surrender of Germany: 8 May Trinity test: 16 July Yep, definitely a three pipe problem.
aug 29, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
By all the accounts i am aware of it was never considered as an option while they were developing it, except for Roosevelt floating the idea once. Turns out making part of one of the richest cities in europe radioactive was unpopular with the Russians and Brits.
aug 29, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Alex Wellerstein discusses the evidence here, but the bottom line is that it was clear long before May 1945 that the war in Europe would be over before the bomb would be ready.
aug 29, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
It wasnt. Not until the last couple of months...mostly following Battle of Remagen. All besides the point. They discounted nuking Berlin because of the projected radioactivity taking out one of europes cultural centers and all that loot well before the bomb was completed.
aug 29, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Plus Stalin would have been **pissed**
aug 29, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Did that discounting of using a nuke on Germany come prior to D-Day? I'm wondering if there was the same line of thought of losing men on an invasion vs. using a nuke as there was w/ Japan
aug 29, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Ehhh, D-Day was probably way too early for them to be considering that compared to when the bomb project was actually completed now that I think about it.
aug 29, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
That line of thought is a post-war rationalisation. The plan was to bomb Japan with everything they had until a ground invasion was ready, then invade. It wasn't either/or, it was everything and the kitchen sink until Japan surrendered.
aug 29, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
It was clear before the Yalta conference. Tbh, even in the counterfactual where the bomb is ready in time, it's not hard to see why Berlin itself would be an unlikely target by looking at a map. But who is the "they" you talk about, and when and where did they make this decision you describe?
aug 29, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Generals, Admirals, those in charge of actual strategy and deployment, instead of the politicians. This is all moot regardless, the point is that outsourcing your understanding of a topic to a machine that lies to you is not how you earn the right to have your opinions,or self, taken seriously
aug 29, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
No, I think they're just valuing their time
aug 29, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Go ask a clanker
aug 29, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view