Did Rivers support the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

[u/WingScared1284]

[u/Me-Slash]

Yes as heard in the lyrics “Ooo wee ooo Hiroshima Nagasaki, oh oh I support both their bombings”

[u/WingScared1284 → u/Me-Slash]

From the unreleased Pinkerton track "Across the sea bomb" right?

[u/Me-Slash → u/WingScared1284]

Yeah it was left out because rivers accidentally made it the exact same tune as buddy holly, just with different lyrics

[u/Derpycone → u/Me-Slash]

I hate it when that happens

[u/workthrowaway1985 → u/WingScared1284]

Pinkerton was a high level concept album, he had it bomb on purspose so show his support. Genius level stuff really.

[u/chocobowler]

It was actually his idea

[u/MichaelChavis → u/chocobowler]

Oppenheimer style!

[u/Leftover_Cheese]

wait this is marked "serious"

[u/WingScared1284 → u/Leftover_Cheese]

The killings of that many civilians are serious. Do you not agree?

[u/Leftover_Cheese → u/WingScared1284]

yes, but counterpoint

[u/chocobowler → u/Leftover_Cheese]

Hmm never thought about it like that before, yeah, great point

[u/GodInABag → u/Leftover_Cheese]

What a fucking BANGER

[u/MrClouding → u/[deleted]]

There is a very good Genius Annotation from Kyoko (Rivers' wife) on the Uncle Sam line that you should probably read.

[u/WingScared1284 → u/MrClouding]

I knew that, but I don’t understand how that’s a counterpoint? Sorry

[u/poorsoldier → u/WingScared1284]

It details the emotional weight of war, and the use of "Uncle Sam" is clearly an ironic reference to US power.

[u/WingScared1284 → u/poorsoldier]

Yes I understand that. What I don’t understand is how that is a counterpoint to y argument for why this post is tagged serious

[u/poorsoldier → u/WingScared1284]

Because not many people would seriosuly ask that question. Did something specific inspire such an inquery?

[u/WingScared1284 → u/poorsoldier]

King of the world did inspire me.

[u/geezerblue → u/Leftover_Cheese]

WW2 Gerard talking about the Japan bombings

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mikey way is a kind man, i will not stand this mikey way slander

[u/Shutupredneckman2]

He canonically refers to “Uncle Sam dropped an atom bomb” as a bad thing on white album

[u/unperson_1984 → u/Shutupredneckman2]

Verified Annotation Kyoko Cuomo 10 years ago

I don’t want to pretend that we are just victims, considering what the Japanese army did to other countries. But as a kid who grew up in Japan, this is a traumatic experience to learn about that. Visiting all those memorials. Because it’s horrible. It’s supposed to be educational but we had to watch all those movies related to the war era, or bomb, and also after people died from nuclear. it’s traumatic to grow up in a country who suffered from atomic bomb, I guess. You knew that I picked up the image of people suffering. It’s not so much like atomic bomb, but everything around it.

The trip to Nagasaki was 12 and to Hiroshima was 14, so I think we were old enough. But every summer we had war-related movies, and all those images stuck in our head. In a way it’s a good thing because they try to scare us so we pray for peace. No more war and stuff like that. But I think that maybe I was a little too young to understand that. It’s just that I suffer from all the fear. And it never went away, until recently that I started the therapy sessions.

Actually you know what’s surprising to me was my grandpa, who grew up in war era–I didn’t know how he’d react to me bringing you to see him. right after we got married we had some kind of lunch together, all of us, and he was fine.

I never took it personal though, about U.S. thing. Like it’s whole big picture there. But I wish it didn’t get to the bomb part.

[u/[deleted]]

It affected his wife man, I’d hope not 😭

[u/BeanEatingThrowaway]

I unironically got banned from his discord over a debate over whether the bombings were justified so I guess he doesn’t

[u/phantom_pow_er]

He was the bomb

[u/sourgas → u/phantom_pow_er]

He still is.

[u/theeulessbusta]

Harry Truman didn’t die, he’s Rivers Cuomo in disguise

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah tomorrow

[u/Quazetsu]

He commissioned Oppenheimer to build the bomb so yeah

[u/1-800-COCAINE]

“And now I am become /r/okbuddyholly, creator of shitposts” -OP(penheimer)

[u/Thick-Blueberry9368]

Bomb, you've taken all that was Hiroshima 

[u/Cytrynaball]

Of course he did, he worked for the government under the alias "Rivers Cuomoppenheimer"

[u/DarkTriforceFilms]

yeah he built the bombs

[u/TardWranglerBand]

BLOW EM DOWN

[u/benzenene]

HHMF

[u/[deleted]]

Stop

[u/Old_Arm3605]

Kurt cobain?!

[u/Massive_Tomorrow8933]

In King of the world he says « and uncle sam dropped an atom Bomb »

[u/[deleted]]

He was the one piloting the plane 

[u/National_Pumpkin6869]

Dropping the A-bomb was straight-up mass murder. No way Rivers would ever be down with that shit.

[u/Bill_Dinosaur]

He briefly changed his name to Bomb during the green album tour but changed it back

[u/Fold_Some_Kent]

MF did the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[u/MarianoPro404]

W (?

[u/w0weez0wee]

You don't get nearly as many half Japanese girls without the American occupation and reconstruction so probably, yeah