Apparently Sociology Professors at CUNY don't like being fact-checked and resort to turning off comments in their screeds after said fact-checking. @hebagowayed.bsky.social - ThreadSky

lestatdelc.bsky.social • 23 hours ago

Apparently Sociology Professors at CUNY don't like being fact-checked and resort to turning off comments in their screeds after said fact-checking.

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thegiaour1814.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Lead=a metal
Led= past tense of verb to lead.

Sorry. One of my pet peeves.

lestatdelc.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Um?

Not sure what that has to do with the posts you are replying to.

thegiaour1814.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Look at the last line of the screenshot on the Security Council.

lestatdelc.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Ah, gotcha.

thekarlwlewis.bsky.social•18 hours ago

In his defense, you did make him look like an illiterate idiot. I mean, he’s trying to make a point, and you just ruined his whole thing.

herserenehighness.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Her whole thing.

lestatdelc.bsky.social•18 hours ago

But I'm the one posting in "bad faith".

(rolls eyes)

fsquared.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Don't interrupt her . . . she's on a roll.

connorlynch.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It's the doubling down that's quite galling. Facts be damned, she's got a point to make.

lestatdelc.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The dirty facts that revisionists want to ignore about the "morality" of the use of the atom bombs in WWII, which effectively ended WWII, is that the military deaths during the war have been estimated at between 9,513 to 11,333 per day. 1/4

lestatdelc.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Add in the far more sobering data, if you include civilian deaths, the numbers yield a range of between 31,731 and 38,531 per day. So even taking the lowest estimates of the per-day death rate (which includes civilians) and the highest estimate on the total deaths from the atomic bombs… 2/4

lestatdelc.bsky.social•16 hours ago

… if the war continued for 8 more days than it did, it would kill more than died from he atomic bombs.

So even if you accept the extremely dubious proposition that Japan would have surrendered on their own without the use of the bombs, if it continued for a little more than a week… 3/4

lestatdelc.bsky.social•16 hours ago

…it would've killed more men, women and children than it actually did by their use.

In my view, it's simply dishonest revisionism to argue that their use, while terrible, wasn't objectively less brutal than continuing on by conventional means. 4/4

dickius.bsky.social•16 hours ago

We don’t talk enough about how the Brooklyn Dodgers’ move to Los Angeles caused the Bronze Age Collapse.

amazingprizzini.bsky.social•16 hours ago

To be fair we don’t enough about things he imagined

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