I got one friend who will not shut up about the MIC (military industrial complex). He'll go on and on about how much it ruins shit and how much is influenced by it. But concepts like Imperialism and its relationship to capitalism is some how beyond him. Instead its just "humans who are the problem"

The thing that I'm reminded of constantly is that there is a language we all use but all the words mean different things.

  • Capitalism
  • Imperialism
  • Fascism
  • Authoritarianism
  • Totalitarianism

I couldn't begin to tell you what I used to think these meant and what the people around me think they mean still. No one (save for one person in our group) would be bothered to read a book on the subject.

Like, the MIC comes from somewhere, if it pisses you off so much, wouldn't you want to understand it, so you can combat it?

/rant

  • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Edit: TINA: there is no alternative. Also looked up bellum Americana and found this: https://medium.com/@vinsonrnash/bellum-americana-b509eda75a8b which I think is what your referencing or is at least a parallel line of thinkning.

    Its wild to me, that someone can look at the 70ish years of the USSR and comflate all the tragedies and hardships into one long string of malicious acts, and completely ignore or justify that the average length of peace time since our founding is 7 years. Ignore the 400+ years of black slavery that the nation was built on.

    Soviet Communism (Stalin's reign, specifically) was the greatest crime humanity managed to commit against itself since the glory days of Ghengis Khan.

    Like, how do you belive this, but then also can't square it against the INTENTAL industrialized enslavement of people, for profit. A system that inspired Nuremberg. I just don't get it.