I think there's a portion of the online left who childishly believe in a good/evil binary and believe that good entities can only do good things and bad entities can only do bad things. Yesterday, I encountered this wrt Japan and WWII.

February 28, 2026 - 19:22 UTC

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The people I argued with believe that nuking Japan was wrong. I agree with that, but we couldn't even establish that the ends, stopping imperial Japan, were good but the means were wrong.
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It's part of the "America bad" mentality that a lot of online leftists have, which I actually support by and large, but they lose me when they feel that compels them to always oppose everything the US has done.
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