Fuck all you warmongering pieces of shit

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Responding here to @Quicksilver’s warmongering:

@QuickSilver

I’ll just leave this here for you and others to consider.

On Navies and Sheltered Pacifism

In his 1940 essay, “My Country Right or Left”, Orwell pointed out how the security provided by a powerful navy can breed a naive form of anti-militarism among the population it protects:

“Ours was the one-eyed pacifism that is peculiar to sheltered countries with strong navies.”

He used this to critique British intellectuals of the interwar period who treated all military matters with disdain. Orwell argued that their ability to safely adopt a purist, anti-war stance only existed because a massive naval shield was quietly keeping foreign threats at bay.

FWIW, I did live in a time and place where a significant population hoped that America would impose a change on the oppressive regime under which we lived. But I don’t expect you’ll find that relatable or persuasive in any way.

I work for the US Navy (and am a Navy veteran). I think a strong defense is incredibly important, and fosters peace. But strong defense is millions of miles away from stupid offense. That’s what we did. Nothing remotely “pro-military”, or “pro-defense”, or pro-anything but stupidity, corruption, and bigotry. War is absolute hell. And the US’s history of “imposing a change on an oppressive regime” is just failure after failure, atrocity after atrocity, stupidity after stupidity. And that’s with supposedly “competent” leadership!

And here you are, expressing gladness that Trump and Hegseth killed some bad guys as they started a war with no strategy, no mission, and no plan, slaughtering children by the hundreds and civilians by the thousands.

Fuck the warmongers! Dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.