IronAnvilsmith

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@YoshiichiAizen @KGBBooks 「君は口から虹を放射することになるぞ🥺」
!!!😂
虹には気をつけなきゃいけないね。🤣

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@sohfangwei Entirely correct.

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@ArterHWTD @ThinkingJack67 @ApexSeeker_ It's well known that the Red Army did most of the fighting in WWII, inflicting and suffering the most casualties. But let's not fool ourselves. The Soviet island campaign at the end of the War was a mop-up exercise, in no way comparable to fighting fortress Japan.

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@ApexSeeker_ So hard to answer. Of course the US would not have used them without reason, but look at the firebombing of Dresden -the alternative may not have been better. How many cities would have bravely endured casualties of 25,000 before the military clique would have admitted defeat?

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I mean, in 1946 an atomic device cost apx. $25 million to build. And you figure, that money could pay for about half a Division over a six month deployment at that time. That's about ten thousand men. And if tpu figure the US would need 300 times that to pacify Japan, the US could afford to drop 3 Little Boy bombs on every city with a population over 50,000 and still come out ahead. Of course they didn't want Soviet influence to spread.
(You seem cool, BTW, not many people I can talk with about this.)

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Because they had the option. Those facts are correct, but they knew they were going to win. If the President was faced with landing 3 million US troops in theater like we did in Europe, facing a hostile population they had to burn out with flamethrowers... I think their attitude towards Soviet assistance would have been very different.

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@ApexSeeker_ Deeply flawed strategy. No one had a plan to force American surrender. Sink the fleet at Pearl Harbor and Japan has the Pacific for a year. But what stops the US from building new fleets? Nothing. Japan gambled the US would run from a fight; when they didn't, the war was lost.

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@2ray_degenemax Welcome to the Club. In America, we have become fatigued by this sort of arrogance from people you wouldn’t want to know, from places you wouldn’t go even if you were paid. When the stray dogs of the world start nipping at your ankles too, you know Japan has truly “arrived.”

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@JoshuaBarzon Persians are perfectly civilized.

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Oooo, really good question.
Every action style feels powerful in its own way. A pump action feels bold and decisive, a lever action feels classic and elegant, a bolt action feels precise and final. But your question is flawed, because a good gun will make you love an action you didn't like, and a bad gun will make you disgusted with an action you thought you enjoyed.

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@ApexSeeker_ Here is an example of a talented amateur. He runs in between shots, he will shoot nearby targets at a very smooth walking pace, and he stands still to shoot distant targets. But our most talented special forces are actually able to run while shooting.

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@hokkori_buzz My Plymouth minivan hit 383,000 miles, so a little over 600K km. It needed a new transmission every 100K miles, but it worked great right up until it threw a connecting rod, which finally destroyed the engine. Loved that car. Best I've been able to do after that was 250K miles.

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@ApexSeeker_ I can reliably hit at 25, but even that is honestly way too far to engage with a pistol. Most handgun fights occur at 10-25 feet: 3-7 meters.

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@SamuraiShibaJP We use Japanese as a mark of extraordinary quality, also. 😊

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@ApexSeeker_ Sunglasses, so long as they are impact rated. All of those are good, though. But I would go with a cigar, rather than cigarette.

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@SamuraiShibaJP Rebuilt the whole front of the house, everything from the walls and stairs to the plumbing and electricals. Only thing I didn't touch was the windows. That was somewhat less than fun. 🫤

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いいえ、私たちは広島や長崎を冗談のネタにすることは決してありません。時折、他者に対する「脅し」の材料としてそれらの例を引き合いに出すことはあっても、日本人をからかうような意図は一切ありません。
アメリカ人は、第二次世界大戦におけるドイツの軍事的な力量を高く評価する一��で、日本の「戦う精神」に対しては、より深い敬意を抱いているように思います。私たちは、日本が自ら課してきた平和主義的な受動的姿勢から脱却し、自国を守り、他国に対して敬意を求めることのできる「真の力」を持つ国へと立ち上がりつつあることを、非常に喜ばしく思っています。

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@TheNancyRoc lol