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Mike Pence opposes RFK Jr. for HHS because of support for abortion access in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] zarp86@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I feel like it's like trying to calculate if the nukes in WW2 saved more lives than they cost.

I know you are just using this as an analogy, but if you are curious:

According to most estimates, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan killed between 140,000 and 210,000 people, with the majority of deaths occurring on the day of the bombings, August 6th and 9th, 1945 respectively

And:

During World War II, 1,506,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured, many in anticipation of the estimated casualties resulting from the planned Allied invasion of Japan. By the end of the war, even accounting for medals lost, stolen, or wasted, nearly 500,000 remained. The total combined American military casualties of the seventy years following the end of World War II—including the Korean and Vietnam Wars—did not exceed that number.

I think the horrors of nuclear weapons were at least responsible for ending the war quicker and saving lives that would have been lost during a ground invasion if Japan never surrendered.

Nick Fuentes confronted at his home after 'your body, my choice' refrain goes viral in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] zarp86@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago

It is possible for two people in a situation to both make poor decisions.

There Is No Constitutional Mandate for Fascism in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] zarp86@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do not make yourself a target and a danger when the threat against you is just shitty laws that benefit the wealthy.

Bold of you to assume that's the only threat.

Trump says there's 'no price tag' for his mass deportation plan in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] zarp86@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume they will bother looking at the papers.

I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

[–] zarp86@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Council member Mercedes Narcisse, a Brooklyn Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said on Tuesday that the new law ends racial disparities in enforcement, noting that more than 90% of the jaywalking tickets issued last year went to Black and Latino people.