Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by myshpa on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:08PM
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All those wars and military conflicts are a way to make profit. Pretty stupid way. It's a racket.
No wars are good. Killing people with drones based on metadata, in foreign countries, without fair trial, is extremely immoral. Every killed father will make several
more enemies.
"In 2016, America dropped at least 26,171 bombs authorized by President Barack Obama. This means that every day in 2016, the US military blasted combatants or civilians overseas with 72 bombs; that’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day" https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/x332z...
I'll let talk someone much smarter than me - Carl Sagan
Imagine foreign power's drones over your country, over your city. Imagine hearing explosions of homes in your town, maybe few homes over. Imagine unmarked millitary man going through your home with their rifles scaring your children. You cannot, can you? Would you feel save and glad? Children there play outside only when it's cloudy, they're afraid of blue skies.
Imagine foreign powers overturning your democraticaly elected leaders and instead putting in their figurines, all for profit, of course.
I know a man who worked for your government, at a black site, in a third country. He's a shadow of a man. Torturing people, in third countries ... that's deterrence?
With 5+millions of millitary contractors, many of them here, maybe this quote will fit.
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"
No wars are good. Killing people with drones based on metadata, in foreign countries, without fair trial, is extremely immoral. Every killed father will make several more enemies.
"In 2016, America dropped at least 26,171 bombs authorized by President Barack Obama. This means that every day in 2016, the US military blasted combatants or civilians overseas with 72 bombs; that’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day" https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/x332z...
I'll let talk someone much smarter than me - Carl Sagan
https://www.youtube.com/embed/BYdxFKTYJIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWPFmdAWRZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KcoPODwvW4
And Charlie Chaplin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HdOHrc3OQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili... (Read it all, I dare you)
Imagine foreign power's drones over your country, over your city. Imagine hearing explosions of homes in your town, maybe few homes over. Imagine unmarked millitary man going through your home with their rifles scaring your children. You cannot, can you? Would you feel save and glad? Children there play outside only when it's cloudy, they're afraid of blue skies.
Imagine foreign powers overturning your democraticaly elected leaders and instead putting in their figurines, all for profit, of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies
I know a man who worked for your government, at a black site, in a third country. He's a shadow of a man. Torturing people, in third countries ... that's deterrence?
With 5+millions of millitary contractors, many of them here, maybe this quote will fit.
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"