• @[email protected]
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      It is kind of a weird take when Russia has captured quite a bit of land. Sure, it’s costing them a lot (you might even say in inordinate sum), but characterizing them as losing is a hard sell.

      • @[email protected]
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        They are losing right now…they can’t actually replace the airplanes and other resources, due to their economy slowly crashing.

        So that will be their undoing. Dad is going to get a reality check soon (=

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    The bloated ICE budget isn’t just to wage war against immigrants, it’s also because they realized the military wouldn’t side with them if they tried to seize/retain power. Now they have a massive, well-funded army of racist thugs that answers only to them, sidestepping the Constitution and chain-of-command entirely.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        It was the SA back then, the brownshirts. But I think the inspiration is more the Rosgvardiya in Russia

    • Echo Dot
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      The military are actually trained though. There’s no point trying to train these guys they are military rejects.

      The US military versus these guys would be more farcical than anything else.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        The point is that the military will sit it out since they can’t be deployed domestically

        • Echo Dot
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          If the US gets to that point I don’t think those rules will apply anymore.

        • @[email protected]
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          Why not? Trump just deployed them to LA and got away with it. He could do it again. The courts have proven about a dozen times since the election that they will not hold him accountable for blatant constitutional violations. Half of congress is on his side so they will never hold him accountable either. There’s nobody left to stop him from doing whatever he wants.

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          not if the protesters are declared foreign agents/a civil war is declared.

          look at the Syrian, Sudanese and Egyptian revolutions

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    The “war on drugs” was never about winning. It was about funneling public money into private pockets and about scaring the populace into compliance. Same with the immigration bullshit.

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      Let me introduce you to the racist motive

      The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

      • John Ehrlichman, President Nixon’s Domestic Policy Cheif. (Harper’s Magazine)
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    “Terror”. The US loves waging unwinnable wars against inanimate objects (drugs) and feelings (terror) lol totally irrational.

  • @[email protected]
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    Well just like with War on Drugs is not about winning. It’s about making as much money off of it as you can. Note they didn’t try to address the problems with immigration. They didn’t change the Green Card system. They didn’t expand the number of immigration judges. They didn’t do anything except fund ice and fund more detention centers which are privately run at extremely huge markups.

  • @[email protected]
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    an important caveat about what happened with Russia, an enormous amount of their military was only on paper, because it had either been lied about, or stuff was stolen, from various positions on the pecking order.

    It should also be noted that after a shitshow of year 1 and being unable to fight a combined arms mechanized war, they switched back to the brute force and massive casualty strategy, and for all intents and purposes, It worked, all Ukraine can do is try to hold territory and kill soldiers, but realistically due to Western cowardice and ratfuckery, the door closed a long time ago on Ukraine being able to dislodge Russia from its stolen territory.

  • Dammam No. 7
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    The US doesn’t always lose. They won against the indigenous peoples in the Indian Wars (1775-1924).

  • JohnnyFlapHoleSeed
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    At this point, after seeing that new budget, I’m just trying to think of ways to defraud the shit out of ICE. They’re going to be writing checks without even glancing at the PO unless it’s over 10 million

    • Bizzle
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      Send their office an invoice for whatever, they’ll probably just pay it.

    • Echo Dot
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      That has to be a market for XXL bulletproof vests. Although it’s the US so that’s probably already a thing.

    • OBJECTION!
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      So true bestie.

      Unrelated, but the other day, someone cornered me in an alley with a gun and demanded I hand over my wallet - but I didn’t lose to them! I simply put my hands up and abandoned my wallet, very different.

    • @[email protected]
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      I know it’s going to hurt when lemmy tries to smack the liberal out of you but we will still love you in the end

    • @[email protected]
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      146 days ago

      We retreated after taking massive losses and accomplishing none of our strategic objectives, unless you consider sending a generation of youth, poisoning the land for generations, and committing countless atrocities to be the real objectives, rather than the stated goal of preventing Vietnam, a country that is still communist to this day, from becoming communist?

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    “The US will always do the right thing… after having exhausted all other possibilities.”

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    106 days ago

    It’s never about winning the war. The pouring of a horrifying amount of money is the point.

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    In what universe did they lose the war on drugs? Marijuana never got rescheduled. People still get their lives ruined over it. It’s impossible to consume cannabis and be gainfully employed at the same time in the US and a sickening majority of people STILL believe this is how things should be. Corporations collude together to make sure they’re all using the exact same drug testing procedures so that really valuable people can’t just decide to go somewhere that treats them better. Yet they do nothing to fight with or systematically harm people who consume alcohol when off duty or come into work hungover.

    All the states with lower costs of living are still allowed to put people in jail for possession. And people fight to keep it this way. They made Florida ballot initiatives need a 60% to pass just to defeat the recent marijuana amendment and NO ONE FUCKING CARED. This is far from “losing” the war on drugs.

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      I guess I’m going to have to tell all the people at my company and my friends’ workplaces that they can’t be gainfully employed while they use weed as their primary or (increasingly often) only intoxicant.

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        My brother got a phd and works a shitty government job because that’s basically his only option. He became a severe alcoholic, had a stroke a few years later and now worships maga and Elon. Fuck the entire war on marijuana ideology and everyone that supports it. I’m glad your life and your loved ones aren’t getting fucked very hard by it. The fact that at least some people are winning in spite of it all is good at least.

        If you know of an industry where I can use my 2 tech degrees to do anything besides pass thc drug tests I’d love to hear it.

    • @[email protected]
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      The drugs are still here. More than never before. Doesn’t matter if the war is still raging. They aren’t going away.