https://mobile.twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1412767494130049024

  • RestingSoyFace [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    he's making an interesting (if facile) analytical point here-- but of course it only really cuts against a lib sort of justification for being anti-war (it's inefficient/costly).

    but we are anti-imperial war and anti-poverty because we want dignity for the least well-off; slight losses to "efficiency" are contemplated, and obviously worth it.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Also the observation that a fight against poverty (under capitalism) if undertaken will be a forever war is a trivial one.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Lol his early op-eds really were just mask-off psycho shit. Not that it's not anymore, but you know this was in an era when other people were publishing his shit and presumably an editor was viewing it.

      • LeninsRage [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I think its the difference between neocon era "We're the empire and proud of it" mindset vs whatever today is where its "whatever owns the libs idc"

    • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      18 years old when he wrote that drivel. Wonder how much he's changed, and how much is him realizing he needs to at least be a touch more subtle about things.

  • kissinger
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    1 year ago

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  • BeanBoy [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    There is no difference between good things and bad things :dril:

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I know that anti-poverty measures in Africa have done something like this where they temporarily flooded the market with cheap foreign food, drove local agriculture out of business, and potentially made poverty worse. But knowing Ben and the right wing they're upset over something insane and not real.