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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by throw0101a on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:12PM (#28464209)
> Yeah we totlly gave up the New Deal

The New Deal occurred before WW2 as a way to simulate things out of the Great Depression. Turns out war is even a bigger economic stimulus package than social programs.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

> and the military industrial complex...

Actually, the US did:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demobilization_of_United_State...

Then the Korean War happened:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

It turns out the Communists were expansionist and needed a counter-weight in influence.

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