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I hope the CIA will try to warn congress and the White House and be more convincing. Or maybe there are not enough benefits for the US to fight climate change?

• cassianoleal 2y ago
  > The US sees itself as a "force of good" through its influence on the world with its military. > But the US is very bad about CO2 You should probably drop the "but". The US seeing itself as a "force of good" doens't make it one.
  • datameta 2y ago
    I thing the wording already implied perception as opposed to reality.
    • cassianoleal 2y ago
      Yes, and then no. > But is used to connect ideas that contrast. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/but https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/but The way it's phrased puts "sees itself as a force of good" in contrast with "is bad". "Is bad" doesn't make sense to be in contrast with "sees itself as...". It's more likely that it's "good [through influence/military]" in contrast with "bad [in CO2]". Alternatively, perhaps it was meant as "(sees itself as) bad [in CO2]" but that's not much of an argument about anything.
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• voisin 2y ago
  > The US sees itself as a "force of good" through its influence on the world with its military It markets itself this way both to the world (largely unconvincingly) and to its populace (largely convincingly), in order to mask the military industrial complex that funnels tax dollars and new debt dollars to a handful of corporations and their shareholders.
  • cmrdporcupine 2y ago
    This is entirely true and at the same time the competing wanna-be imperial powers have shown themselves to be even worse.