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Can’t the Pentagon just sell those $2000 hammers and toilet seats and pull themselves up by their boot strings?

  • thallamabond@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Where are all the fiscal conservatives losing their minds over this?

    Where are all the guys that point at the stock market and blame the president?

    I can’t help but feel that all the television networks and Washington posts of the world would be losing their collective minds if anybody but a republican was in power.

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      9 hours ago

      Everyone is in denial at the fact it’s all bullshit and has been bullshit for a long time. Change will never come if people keep entertaining the bullshit.

      What are people clinging to? Especially people who are single. I can see people with kids clinging hiding from reality… And honestly sometimes I wonder if the tradition of family is partly pushed on people for this exact reason. It forces them to be subservient out of fear for protection.

      I don’t understand how people expect a change without some kind of war and sacrifice. That’s fucked up to say but it’s true. No heart or integrity… People fear a life without the privilege they are used to. And truth be told much of what we all fear losing is shit we don’t actually need. Our culture is like drug fiends that will do anything to keep the fix coming. The pimp is the corrupted nation feeding us drugs, and we are the whores subservient to the game working to keep them rich and powerful.

      I hate saying it without knowing much about irans culture, but they are fighting back against the beast which is more than I can say about any American that complains, including myself.

      An even sicker truth… If a revolution started, they WILL end up taking ownership and the whole thing will be worthlessly put back in the hands of their evil. They have that power, that’s the power we help fund by living in their game.

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        The thing is, if people fight back against the pedo cabal in charge, they would suffer massive losses to their power.

        If their workforce revolts, and they kill them… they lose their workforce; thus crippling their power. They really don’t have any scenario they win—unless we continue to fear fighting back against them and keep business as usual.

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        I think it’s less a matter of people clinging to anything than just not knowing what to do because of everything you mention in that final paragraph. I think more people are willing to sacrifice for a greater good than is commonly realized, but nobody wants to sacrifice themselves for nothing, and that’s almost certainly what would come from trying to take forceful action at this point. I sympathize with being deeply frustrated, but honestly I think the best thing a good comrade can do for the revolution right now is to try to survive for long enough for a better opportunity to present itself.

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      9 hours ago

      They’re killing brown people overseas while getting rid of (and probably killing) brown people on the home front… all is well according to them. If they gotta pay $6/gallon to fill up their ridiculous 4 gallon to the mile rig to have it done, then by all means, “git 'er done!”

      Racists gonna racist.

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      9 hours ago

      They’ve pumped the stock market with schemes like trump accounts where each kid born gets like 1k in stock investments, and other bs manipulation. The stock market just isn’t showing any bad signs for rich people.