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> another Vietnam What if, and hear me out here, we just didn't do that?

• krapp 1y ago
  Do you understand the concept and purpose of the military industrial complex? It is, in no small part, a capitalist enterprise. War is a means of projecting imperialist power, but also justifying military contracts and expenditure. It is a self-perpetuating, self-justifying machine that demands constant growth, so we must do that. We can't not do that. And since the current regime (and half the country) considers the domestic population to be as much an adversary as any foreign one, we're going to reap the home soil. This is just American imperialism turning on itself, as imperialism inevitably must.
  • clanky 1y ago
    We're on the same page here, but just because those are the system's imperatives doesn't mean they must be embraced by the poster I replied to.