• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    19 hours ago

    Never had there been a more apt implementation of “cutting one’s nose of to spite one’s face”.

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      13 hours ago

      Well it was pretty obvious when America failed to succeed in Vietnam, then Iraq and Afghanistan. Spending dozens of trillions building up and perpetuating the most powerful military, and nuclear arsenal, couldn’t defeat peasants.

      If the goal was actually to fight for freedom, they could have funded education and it would’ve cost 1/10th the trillions they spent murdering people… But they’d never do that, because they refuse to even educate their own citizens; they’ve been choosing corporate profits over citizen wellbeing since inception, and calling it “freedom”.