Sharing their stories for the first time, Guam cancer survivors of the nuclear radiation exposure, want the world to know how it has devastated their lives and their families.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      As per Wikipedia … Territories belong to, but are not considered to be a part of, the U.S. [4] Unincorporated territories in particular are not considered to be integral parts of the U.S.,[5] and the U.S. Constitution applies only partially in those territories.

      They’re basically second class non-citizens who don’t even get to vote in US elections. Democracy! Lol.

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    People suggest that the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only victims of nuclear weapons, but they were merely the only victims during a hot war. There were many more during the cold war, from islanders who got hit by fallout from testing (plus a boat of Japanese fishermen, inspiring the Godzilla movies) to soldiers that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had walk onto the radioactive cloud after a test bomb went off.

    It’s just that in all of those cases, the people who died were those nations’ own citizens or citizens of their allies.

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    It’s america bro, their own kids get shot in schools on a daily basis, they don’t give a crap about you…

  • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    2 months ago

    plea to the United States

    Ah there’s your problem, they don’t give a fuck.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Don’t plead to our government. They don’t even care about us, much less anyone else.