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You know how you hear a lot of complaints about private prisons? How it creates perverse incentives that result in more people being imprisoned? We have a pri
by willcipriano 2y ago
You know how you hear a lot of complaints about private prisons?
How it creates perverse incentives that result in more people being imprisoned?
We have a private war apparatus.
We have been at war for 30 years without even a clear objective.
- ethbr1 2y agoThe objective is the same for every superpower in the world: to try and establish military hegemony and retain it for as long as possible.
- willcipriano 2y agoI'd believe that if we won the wars instead of losing them all. This is just looting.
- ethbr1 2y agoSouth Korea's doing pretty well. Germany's in one piece. The Balkans aren't on fire. Granted, the Middle East is still its perpetual religious/sectarian/ethnic clusterfuck...
- willcipriano 2y agoHow's America though?
- ethbr1 2y agoStill democratic and #1/#2 in the world, by most measures. Was there something specific you were looking for?
- willcipriano 2y agoWe pay a european level of taxes (and rising) in order to receive a "safety net" thinner than Cuba, mostly so we can drop bombs on brown people and shadowy "communists"/"terrorists"/"freedom haters"/"yellow cake enjoyers"/"nazis that arent Ukrainian". What's the metric for that?
- ethbr1 2y agoNumber of world wars or countries invaded?
- willcipriano 2y agoYou tell me if you don't know.
- chaostheory 2y agoYou’d have a point if you made this comment 15 years ago, but Russia invaded Ukraine 10 years ago. Around the same time, China started to make outlandish claims on the South China Sea. You can make a lot of complaints about the defense industry like waste and corruption, but a lack of a clear objective is no longer an issue.
- NegativeLatency 2y agoHopefully I’m beyond the draft age of it comes to it but I don’t want a shooting war in my lifetime.
- chaostheory 2y agoYou should read the 4th Turning which is about the Strauss Howe generational theory
- NegativeLatency 2y agoSomething like: Strong people make good times, good times make soft people, soft people make bad times, bad times make strong people? Looks interesting I’ll check it out, thanks!
- chaostheory 2y agoYeah, but it’s more about another shooting war.
- psunavy03 2y agoThis is an absurdity. The US did counterinsurgency brush fires and that's it since major combat operations ended in Iraq. Go look at Ukraine. THAT is what "being at war" looks like, and you should be thankful we haven't been forced to do that for 30 years.