Godlike Productions - Discussion Forum
Users Online Now: 2,230 (Who's On?)Visitors Today: 1,070,719
Pageviews Today: 1,930,125Threads Today: 844Posts Today: 14,829
09:49 PM


Back to Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
Back to Thread
REPORT COPYRIGHT VIOLATION IN REPLY
Message Subject Disturbing American special operations psychological warfare video
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
Post Content
...


But you are talking about two kinds of war. The war which causes people to die and trillions to be wasted doesn't involve any actual loss to that mindset. These are private interests being protected and making money, not the US economy. The second kind of war is largely conducted against people who are opposed to the first, both foreign and domestic.

Now if I object to my people dying and the coffers of my country being drained to benefit a select few who have highly questionable loyalty to the country doing their fighting, this makes me an 'enemy' of my country. So both versions mean our country/all countries are only the vehicle for special interests and our military are in every case a mercenary class. In that case, trauma is definitely useful. Rapists and slave-dealers think the same thing.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76817319


I thought that AC 8286 was talking about physical war, whereas I assumed with Twatter blowing up we were in a digital war. One it seemed he didn't think was real war because nobody died. That was the underlining theme of our disagreement.

It's ok for people to disagree because opinions are like bums, everyone's got one and this is the internet.

Militaries are useful and so are the people that are in them.

However it takes a very naive or immoral person to question whether those militaries should be used in foreign policy.

Either the naive person believes the military shouldn't be used to aggrandize wealthy people like the Sacklers who bribe politicians for those lucrative Government contracts.

Or the immoral person knows it and profits from it by owning corporate stock who would do well in the event of conflict.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76091990


Shouldn't be used, or wouldn't be used?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76817319


Hmmm...

I don't think it matters to be honest.

We both know the political class invests in defense contractors 6 to 12 months before declaring some random country or non state actor to be an enemy of the people with the media pushing the population into demanding their state go bomb some poor hapless person who has no idea why his corn field suddenly exploded...

You know I'm right! Lulcatz
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76091990


I guess. I was just trying to parse out your immoral/naive dichotomy. It would seem that anyone not in the master class would be a member of solely those two groups. Partisans of all stripes in private conversations have usually either said 'it's good business' (right) or 'if you're going to make an omelet' (left). They've gotten more nuanced recently but I'm old now and not especially invested outside of trying to figure out what the point of it all is.
 
Please verify you're human:




Reason for copyright violation:







GLP