• @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    431 year ago

    Libs literally cannot think in any way other than money is everything. People don’t fight wars, money does. People don’t solve problems, money does. People don’t provide labor, money does. They cannot fathom a world in which whoever throws the most money at a problem wins by default.

    • @sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      The focus on unsustainable consumption of resource rather than efficient management of resource is the reasons why the Pax Americana depends on countries that gain free riding from colonialism, free riding from the Bretton Woods institutions that funds corrupt governments in former European colonies, enslavement of First Nation children of North America in Residential fake Schools even after the end of the Cold War, inheritance thief of the murdered children of First Nation landowners in fake schools through fraudulent activities, continued imprisonment of First Nation people in planned poverty in concentration camps as a condition to maintain their property rights and “free” reparation money, and the dependency on extreme wealth concentration into the uncompetitive 1% oligarch. Liberal principle stress management of resource over unsustainable resource extraction, but the Liberals do not follow this principle in practice since they complained that it is “too unrealistic” and too “Communist”.

    • Capitalist thinking when it comes to their defense buddies: throw money at it

      Capitalist thinking when it comes to solving homelessness: let them freeze

    • @lxvi@lemmygrad.ml
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      141 year ago

      But I spent a thousand times more for it. Are you telling me it isn’t a thousand times better?

  • KiG V2
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    281 year ago

    I just don’t understand how they can still think that Russia is the bad guy and USA is the good guy.

    I guess it’s just some vague idea that the East is full of bloodthirsty backwards savages who don’t have any sense. I guess after all they did somehow make farmers with AKs in the Middle East into somehow a threat to a world-spanning Empire. I want to squish my eyeballs.

      • KiG V2
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        151 year ago

        On one hand I was thinking of Mujahideen which I don’t associate with developed communities. But on the other hand I really don’t know what it’s really like 90% of the time and I’m probably still casually affected by the racist/Orientalist imperial mindset of the order I supposedly stand against. The brainwashing goes deep 🤷‍♂️

    • @ProleEntelechy@lemmygrad.ml
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      151 year ago

      I mean, isn’t Russia the “bad guy” because they invaded a sovereign nation. Doesn’t that also make the US a bad guy because sovereignty means nothing to them.

  • Drstrange2love
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    271 year ago

    liberal discovering that military spending does not correspond to efficiency and results.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap
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      161 year ago

      And ignore the fact that many of the planes have serious design flaws despite costing millions to produce. Also please ignore the fact that they aren’t even used most of the time and just collect dust in a top of the line hanger

  • @darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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    171 year ago

    This is just moving the goal-posts thinking. They’ve gone from Ukraine will win/Ukraine will be in Moscow in two months to… well if the Russians don’t crush them in a few months they’re in trouble haha.

    • @knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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      291 year ago

      Up to the middle of January 2023 the US has lent Ukraine $47B, which excludes the value of the weapons and equipment provided.

      I put emphasis on the lending part because this isn’t a giveaway. It’s lend-lease for the 21st century. Ukraine is and will be forced to sell off whatever means of production it still has left after this war to US capitalists in a desperate effort to pay this money back. Back in the WWII era lend-lease was used by the Americans to take over from the British as global hegemon and bring capitalist Europe under its wing.