"It's... our biggest business, one of the last things we still make & export on a grand scale. The bulk of the people elected to congress ... snuggle in a giant fornicating mass in the capital dedicated to the upkeep of the war bureaucracy." - Matt Taibbi taibbi.substack.com/p/lets-n…
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Replying to @Guttersmith
What is your argument here? That our “overwhelming force” really did a bang up job in Vietnam? Iraq? Afghanistan?

Jan 26, 2022 · 1:44 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @Guttersmith
The big question is why, after tens of thousands of years of social flexibility, many people today can’t conceive of how society might effectively be reorganized. sciencenews.org/article/huma…

‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrites 40,000 years of human history

A new book recasts human social evolution as multiple experiments with freedom and domination that started in the Stone Age.

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Replying to @marwilliamson @Guttersmith
Honestly interested in your answer. What would you do? Let Russia take over Ukraine and then move on to another independent nation? The US told Ukraine to give up your nuclear weapons and we will protect you. They did their part.