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Oh they achieved their goal.
They killed brown people. That's the goal of most of the policies this administration has undertaken.
It was always about a campaign of terror and the charade of “doing something“.
For over 45 years, the “war on drugs“ was lost before it began. Drugs won. Why? Because everyone loves drugs. And the only way to win the “war on drugs“ is to reduce or eliminate the reasons why people want to use drugs in the first place: because they’re fucking miserable. Happy people don’t use drugs. Well, not the bad drugs. Happy people like smoking weed, but weed isn’t really one of the “bad drugs”. Anyway…
No, no… All of this was performative bullshit to make the “strong men” look strong when, in fact, they all knew it wouldn’t really accomplish anything other than making the American public think that they were actually accomplishing something. Which, of course, they weren’t. Nothing, aside from, of course, the stochastic terror they have been perpetrating upon everyone. and murdering brown people, which the Nazis in the current administration, love, regardless of the purpose.
yes, the charade of "doing something", or "the cult of action" as Umberto Eco called it
OK, I'll be that one person downvoting you. It wasn't about killing brown people. They don't give a fuck about brown people. It is all about power and the graft and so on and those brown people are just expendable.
Nah, their goal is to transfer wealth.
These bombs are expensive as fuck. This moved tax dollars into the hands of the private military companies, which you'll find Trump and his buddies are stockholders.
The fact that they're brown just ensures that the racist population is less likely to complain.