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[–] schwim@lemm.ee 22 points 9 months ago

Is the person that wrote the title having a stroke?

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Title reads like it belongs on a Dr. Bronners soap package.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Orthodoxy? Is this a Russian troll post? What about holding warm water ports during peace time?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And if you want to be a conservative and only think of it as a financial problem.

Feeding 40 million children will likely raise several thousand healthy smart and intelligent adults who will go on to maintain your fancy jet, make your jet better, faster and more deadly .... or invent a new jet or weapon for you to make your military even more powerful.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Can't have intelligent adults, too scary for the owner class

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Why not having both? I mean it's not like it is one or the other.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Poverty is a policy decision.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I've always appreciated the irony of Eisenhower speaking out about the MIC, but only after he led a historic expansion of the US nuclear arsenal.

This two-faced bullshit is part of our national identity.