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

  • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Start with "the military complex is a government handout to Lockheed and Boeing" and then segue into the purposeful failures in Afghanistan/Iraq and move right into our sanctioning of a genocide in Yemen.

    You should have no problem having a captive audience if you don't blame "our veteran heroes." And really any conversation about our dipshit foreign policy is a conversation most Americans would never think to have. So in that way, it's almost always a win.

    Mainly because our foreign policy is indefensible.

    • panopticon [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Also throw in some Smedley Butler in there, teach them how war is a racket and how at least one highly decorated marine had all this shit sussed out decades before Eisenhower spoke about the MIC.

      • bombshell [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I dunno, he had some wacky conspiracy theories like the real reason America entered WWI was to ensure that France would pay back its bank loans it had taken out during the war. Not gonna fly with libs, it's more Alex Jones material.

        • meme_monster [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Well for this lib, it's been the first I've heard of this theory. How many libs are going to dig this deep on Smedley Butler, or care so long as it doesn't point to the illuminati/elders of zion?

          • bombshell [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            I'm just saying the man was into weird conspiracy theories. He did this thing where supposedly the (((bankers))) tried to overthrow America in a fascist plot and he was the lone American hero who exposed it all. The more you look into him the more off he gets.