I never seen to be able to get them on board. It's not like I do it often, but the few times I've tried recently they just don't get it

  • FugaziArchivist [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    hmm, idk the best strategy. It would be difficult if they don't care about the lives of non-Americans. If they do, you could mention: the Pentagon refusing to share instructions on how to defuse landmines with Southeast Asia. CIA mining three Nicaraguan harbors in 1984, which even the Hague said was fucked. (Actually, recite any of the horrors by the Contras). The Collateral Murder video that put WikiLeaks on the map (US helicopter pilots casually riffing while shooting civilians). 200,000 Iraqi civilian deaths. The "double-tap drone strike," which involves "bombing a target, waiting a period of five to twenty minutes, often during which first responders arrive, and then bombing the target a second or even third time" (S. Alexander, 2017). If they care about spending: mention how the US military budget is more than the next 9 or 10 countries combined; how the Pentagon "lost" 2.3 trillion dollars by 2001; how it costs $89,000 an hour to fly a V-22 Osprey. Those are just some things that jump out at me.