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George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
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aproitzWhat an #atrocious #Comment. It's against all #Principles, that the american #Constitution stands for. And I say this as a #Foreigner (German) !! Some #Americans themselves do not understand their Constitution at all.
#Beckwith should be #deported to #Ecuador to see himself, how it feels, to be alone with no #Help in a #hostile #Country.
Joan Carr@georgetakei that’s the problem with teaching no history or with teaching the revisionist history of the victor. Multiple generations are ignorant of the facts and our constitution.
nullHis brain needs to be distributed outside his skull. Not saying anyone specifically should work on this project. Just stating the outcome that is befitting of the likes of him.
sandywb14@georgetakei One of this man’s crimes are those pants.
Nicole ParsonsThe militarists in Japan were given an enormous boost in their empire-building by the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs.
By destroying international trade to shield those responsible for the 1929 financial crash from taxation, Herbert Hoover's "half court tennis" international strategy triggered the fascist dictatorships & empire building that led to WW2.
International trade keeps the peace & sidelines war hawks.
Millionaires in the USA caused a cascade effect that dominoed into world war.
Robert Link@Npars01 @georgetakei Ah, but did they make a buck or two in the process? Profit justifies all.
We forget that capitalism isn't a religion or a system of ethics to anyone but billionaires.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/amartya-sen-development-economics-capitalist-markets-inequality-exploitation
It's amoral at best & downright evil at worst.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/the-opportunity-costs-of-capitalism/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/
Sometimes democracy ameliorates the damage & tries transparency, oversight, & regulation.
Pursuing a course of action known to end in world war is evil.
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Amartya Sen’s Work Shows Us the Human Cost of Capitalist Development
Indian economist Amartya Sen has posed a devastating challenge to the dominant capitalist understanding of development. But Sen’s own analytical framework doesn’t go far enough in exposing the inherently exploitative logic of capitalism.
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Billionaires evading taxation & regulation is creating the same conditions that led to WW2 under their "profits at any price" ideology.
Costs: $4 trillion
https://online.norwich.edu/online/about/resource-library/cost-us-wars-then-and-now
Lives lost: over 70 million
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
Also, remember how the fossil fuel industry sided with the Axis Powers last time
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Teagle
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/fossil-fuel-industrys-legacy-white-supremacy
https://grist.org/climate/how-the-oil-industry-pumped-americans-full-of-fake-news/
AI is funded by the fossil fuel industry for a reason
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/ai-artificial-intelligence-art-chatgpt-jobs-capitalism
The Cost of U.S. Wars Then and Now
Though it lasted fewer than four years, World War II was the most expensive war in United States history. Adjusted for inflation to today’s dollars, the war cost over $4 trillion and in 1945, the war’s last year, defense spending comprised about 40% of gross domestic product (GDP). During that time, the government used new methods to raise the required funds and succeeded in accomplishing its goal. While the wars waged in today’s world are significant and costly, they still pale in comparison to the size and financial impact of World War II.
Gabs@georgetakei it's kinda crazy, but also kind of expected, that they just flip your narrative like that and actually end up using your argument against you. Turns out that is a winning strategy despite the stories we tell that warn specifically against this.
sOlOw-NHYeah, the attack was just like the undocumented who pick your vegetables, build your houses, work in the slaughterhouses, and do the labor that you're too lazy to do. Why would they need due process?
VeeHere's the thing: they could care less that it destroys people's lives. These people need to go. They need to learn a few life lessons.
Mrinappropriate@VeroniqueB99 @georgetakei They need to go to #alligatorauschwitz and see what it’s like to have their lives destroyed.
I was thinking a bit harsher life lessons, but sure...
Andrew Benedict-Nelson@georgetakei not the most important point, but he looks like he isn’t wearing any pants
D. G. MarshallIt was wrong then to deny Japanese Americans due process.
It is wrong now to deny immigrants due process.
It is also wrong to equate race and hard work in the fields and factories with bombing a naval base.
@georgetakei
1984 was not written as a manual AND the constitution of the United States is not simply suggestions
1984 was not written as a manual AND the constitution of the United States is not simply suggestions
Julescelt@georgetakei These are same people that yell; 'not all men', 'not all religious people', not all white people', etc, etc, etc,....
By their own logic (if they had any) is; not all Japanese were bombing Pearl Harbor...Not all Hispanics are criminals, etc., etc.,etc....
So, Due Process is a requirement. No 'ifs' 'ands' or 'buts'.
Sordid Amok!@georgetakei Why is this doll man not wearing pants?
�@SordidAmok @georgetakei i have the same question: looks like trevor from the series ghosts
PeterReferring to previous injusctices and pretending they were OK is typical conservative thinking. It leads to anti-LGBT, anti-woman, anti-black, anti-science, and anti-progressive policies and actions. "Everything was so much better before <insert hated thing here> was allowed."
Horrible thinking, horrible people.
Peter Lichota@georgetakei God they’re THICK!!…
KilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀@georgetakei Maybe even that we are not at war or being bombed. All current damage is being inflicted from within our own governance
obscurestar@georgetakei It makes me so terribly sad that such kind as good people as Mr Takei must see such ugliness and ignorance twice in their lifetime. I am truly sorry and will continue to work to make this nation better. :(
Cleanair Avatar@georgetakei You and David Suzuki were in the same boat.
Chris Routh (He/Him)@georgetakei I am so sorry that you have had to endure this, and witness this happening to others with your empathy magnified by your personal experience. This is something that no person of any race, culture, gender or walk of life should ever have to endure. Not for one moment.
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)@georgetakei Image description:
The Bulwark:
"Are you going to make sure that all the [immigrants detained]...have due process?...These people are not seeing a
judge.' Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith: "They don't have a right to see a judge... When the Japanese were bombing Pearl
Harbor, did we give them due process?"
Read more about it in Morning Shots:
Partial link
The Bulwark:
"Are you going to make sure that all the [immigrants detained]...have due process?...These people are not seeing a
judge.' Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith: "They don't have a right to see a judge... When the Japanese were bombing Pearl
Harbor, did we give them due process?"
Read more about it in Morning Shots:
Partial link
Bo Tally@georgetakei who’s the idiot with no pants?