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My take on the reason for the US's endless warfare is that it is simply a way to transfer billions of dollars of tax money every year to arms manufacturers and
by everyone 10y ago
My take on the reason for the US's endless warfare is that it is simply a way to transfer billions of dollars of tax money every year to arms manufacturers and their political allies.
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- sehr 10y agoThat isn't your take so much as the take people use to inconsiderately explain it all away on the daily.
- adt2bt 10y agoWhat's your take? You're not offering an alternative here.
- Retra 10y agoHopefully it's something that can actually be used to make decisions and not some pandering fluff designed to appease the norms of their own thoughtless and cynical in-group. On the other hand, maybe it's actually ok to not pretend to have all the answers.
- everyone 10y agoWell, I want to understand why people would actively engage in and promote something so awful and also, on the surface, so illogical and wasteful. This explanation makes sense at least to me. You cant improve things without first understanding them.
- tomaskafka 10y agoThe purpose of a system is what it does https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_w...
- zo1 10y agoI personally don't see it that "directed" and insidious by the people involved. Rather, I'd argue that it's a giant government-works program. After all, that is what we incessantly task the government with doing. "100% employment", "create jobs", "create jobs"!