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What do the fascists get out of saying the truth? Shouldn’t they be cheering on the war machine? My conservative family is sharing this vid around and I’m very confused on what to do. Why can’t it be socialists and communists who get millions of views by talking like this?

  • electerrific [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Shouldn’t they be cheering on the war machine?

    See, I would disagree with that. The chuds don't like war, in and of itself. What they like is winning wars. To rip out the enemy's heart and drink his blood. That's what they desire above all, a bit of the old ultra-violence. And to find out afterwards that they were right to do it. Well, the DC establishment blob hasn't delivered a win since Tokyo 1945. Korea and Vietnam stuck in their craw, and Afghanistan tore it.

    "...it's a crying shame the way war has been handled in the last few decades. I mean, let's look at it out in the open. Let's stop this pussyfootin' around. Can you tell me why the hell we've given up on the Germans? Can you? Those damn politicians in Washington have chalked them up on our side, and the wars ever since have been a national disgrace. Hell, look at history. The two best wars this country has fought were against the Jerries. Now I say, get the Krauts back on the other side of the fence where they belong, and let's return to the kind of enemy worth killing and the kind of war this whole country can support."

    -- Uncle Victor, "Harold & Maude" (1971)

    And it's not that the blob can't win - it's that they don't want to win. The war is the point of the war. If they won the war, it would be over! To get the idea, imagine an NGO set up to cure some social ill, and actually does it. Everyone who works there would be out of a job! Why would the blob stop making wealth for itself? Look at the temper tantrum they threw when ordered to withdraw from Afghanistan. They deliberately botched it to show how angry they were, and to set an example for the future. Don't you dare stop our precious wars or we'll do it again!

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It's also a case that the U.S. can't actually win wars outside of it's borders, (German politicians were looking for settlements prior to U.S. entry in WWI, only being stopped by the refusal of the army to agree to the ceasefire, Soviets won WWII) because they are completely unwilling to invest the amount of money that is required to set up competent administration for occupation. Actual serious occupation requires setting up infrastructural relationships that can only be maintained by the industry of the colonizer. It's also how you can also maintain neo-colonial relationships after you ostensibly leave.

      The U.S. no longer has the capability to develop and maintain that level of infrastructure, and it has never really been a part of their game plan to begin with, because the U.S. is actually incredibly bad and inefficient at everything it does, getting by one the fact we have a low population (because of austerity and genocide) and high amount of natural resources to play with. We can afford to be inefficient in ways that other countries simply cannot, but eventually that inefficiency will start to bite us in the ass in a significant way.