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I am beginning to wonder if the person who keeps spamming this board with vapid third party posts and then refusing to ever engage in genuine non-adversarial discussion about them is deliberately trying to sour everyone here on third parties.
Like, a few months ago no one cared. Now though, EVERYONE is well armed with facts and opinionated as hell.
It’s probably the Streisand effect though! And it’s great to see.
I’m more inclined to think it’s just a dedicated conservative troll that didn’t really think things through. Everything about it is just too reactionary and knee-jerk.
I think the kids call it sea lioning? Where you use a facade of civility to break down a community with subtly divisive trolling.
I couldn’t possibly make myself complicit in the acts of the bothsides duopoly. That’s why I will instead vote how the furthest right party wants people to. Additionally, I am on here all day every day campaigning for others to do the same, and that doesn’t make me complicit in any acts because reasons.
Stein sucks. She’s there because she pays Executive Committee bills. No one votes Green for candidate as that candidate can’t win. They hope 5% vote Green, which would put their platform on every ballot in 2028, which would attract a quality candidate to represent it. There was an influx of new persons during COVID. Now, the masses must be inoculated with propaganda such that it cannot happen again when the DNC compromises everything they’ve promised us to suit corporate donors, once again.
At least the Dems are not in favor of disbanding NATO.
Of course not. The Democrats rely on the military industrial complex to pay the bills, just as the Republicans do. Neither is so stupid as to shit where they eat. Only Trump is that dumb.
The revenues of all the military companies in the US are a small fraction of Apple’s, much less the rest of the tech sector.
Gotta keep up with the times there gramps, or next you’ll be forgetting things like we’re a net energy exporter now.
What do you count as military companies? Just things like Raytheon and Blackwater? Or do you include companies like Amazon and Kraft? If you’re excluding companies like Google and MS from the MIC, you’re greatly underestimating it…
Fair question. Yes I was considering arms suppliers specifically. I’m not sure we can simply include every company that works with the military in any way though, it makes more sense to consider companies that get the majority of their profits from the military-affiliated work.
I would not count Kraft as part of the MIC for instance.
Revenue is quite an oversimplification of geopolitics in a heavily interdependent economic paradigm, kiddo.
Regardless, thinking the MIC is what pays the bills is just, frankly, wrong. Very outdated.
You’ve invalidated my reasoning. Luckily, I can keep repeating my ageism.
Good luck with that, kiddo.
No, you have not invalidated my reasoning I’m afraid, all you did was point out that revenues are not the whole picture. While true, this does not equate to the MIC being what suddenly pays the bills. To do so, it would have to either directly or indirectly contribute to the coffers the majority of the money spent. It does not, not even close.
You can blather about geopolitics all you want, but at the end of the day a budget is a budget, and most of the money comes from a very wide variety of domestic sources that the military has no relation to. The health care industry, for instance, does extensive lobbying to the parties. No military relation, and that’s just one example.
Your ideas are out of date. By a couple decades. Which is extremely common on here, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if you started discussing petro-dollars and an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East next, like so many of the other people on here.
Putin’s Jizz Stein wants Nato disbanded, the US to give up their SC veto, and revoke weapons to help Ukraine defend itself while simultaneously forcing ‘peace’ (subjugation) negotiations with russia.
For those that don’t understand how the Electoral College + FPTP voting works, voting for her means helping donald become president due to the spoiler effect.
Putin’s Jizz Stein wants Nato disbanded
The only possible reason that someone would want NATO disbanded is because they are Russian shills. Russian aggression is the reason NATO exists.
It’s not that long ago that NATO was near it’s end in fact, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/3/macron-stands-by-nato-brain-death-comment-in-clash-with-trump
Had Russia waited another decade or two, and it’s conceivable that NATO would have been retired.
But no, they had to go and bring it back from it’s deathbed: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/11/offensive-defence-how-putin-saved-nato https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/ukraine-revived-nato/
Talk about unintended consequences.