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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sure the US loves its proxy wars, but those don’t throw the entire nation into wartime.

because keeping the wars 'over there' and impacts from said conflicts minimal on the populace (no drafts, no rationing, no sacrifices) makes it easy to send the youth to be blown up in far off places.

[–] MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

What I was referencing by proxy war was Ukraine and what Israel was supposed to be. The US sends arms to another nation with the intention that the other nation, who is already in conflict (or just happens to be through dubious and convenient circumstances) will take those arms and give political adversaries a bloody nose or serve as enough of a distraction that they won't come after the US and keeps the US from putting boots on the ground. Is working out quite well for us in Ukraine, Israel was supposed to distract the middle east but turns out that when you hand a genocidal maniac a bunch of weapons, he's gonna do maniacal genocidal things with them. Who could have possibly guessed