"In this fictitious war which will not happen, your kids will die"
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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The front lines of Fortnight are brutal, but Danny boy.... The pipes, the pipes are calling...
It's very easy to be cavalier with others' lives, possessions and money.
Capitalists love to nag on how socialism means stealing from other people to fund things, but look at how disposable they see people’s lives like they’re just Pokémon ready to battle others.
It's very easy to be cavalier with others' lives, possessions and money.
-Burkina Faso
-Mali
-Algeria
-Senegal
-Djibouti
-The many, many, many other French neocolonial nations
Kind of finding it hard to sympathize with the country that called it's immigrant and refugee encampment the Jungle camp
Agreed, France as a country is just as barbaric as the rest of us are.
But at the end of the day, the working class is who suffers. We keep stacking our bodies up in piles til they topple. Those in power sip their brandy and point their fingers and off we go. They come into the ghettos, into the poorest places and wave around health insurance, a "purpose" to those without a pot to piss in. Money. For those of us with nothing, that sounds like everything.
That complicates it for me. I'm glad for you it's more cut and dry.
It blows my mind that Russia has taken years to wind up the war machine enough to actually beat stupid little corrupt Ukraine who they share a land border, and linguistic and cultural roots with, yet somehow they're going to turn around and march like the Red Army to Paris, and do Red Dawn style invasions of the US and UK
If only the Soviets won the Cold War. If only Red Dawn was plausible (the alt version where the Soviets win, of course).
Stopping at Berlin was Stalin's worst mistake.
I wish the Warsaw Pact and the Comintern were still around. I miss when socialism had geopolitical power. I miss when being a commie made me scary, not a political joke. I miss when we had hope. I miss when it looked like we could win if we just played our cards right.
(I really enjoyed Red Dawn, tbh. Right up until the commies lost.)
Christ, I miss the Cold War. At least back then, I'd eventually have had the good sense to defect.
Putin will not stop at Berlin 
Wtf, I love Putin now
If our country wavers because it is not ready to lose its children … or to suffer economically because the priority has to be military production, then we are indeed at risk.
Ironically they're actually trying to save themselves economically by shifting to military production as a means of propping up suffering economies.
And it won't work. Military Keynesianism is the worst kind of Keynesianism. If you build a bridge or a university or a rail line you get an asset with real use value for real people that will help develop your economy further. If you build a tank you have a tank and the best case scenario when it comes to its use value is that it will never be used. The collective West is currently wasting enormous resources on a dumbass arms race and we will suffer the consequences for decades to come.
trying to save themselves economically by shifting to military production as a means of propping up suffering economies.
Hey, I've seen this one before!
Killing peoples kids to make line go up
So…let’s exhaust all alternatives to war, first! 
We’re doing the alternatives, right? 
Some of you may die, but that's a price I'm willing to make so banker's line goes up.
man trained to hammer nails, sees everything as nails. More at eleven.
Man whose toolbox contains nothing but a large variety of hammers, has determined all of the nation's problems to be nails.
Surely that will fix the aging crisis!
How about we put all the Generals and arms company directors into a big wood chipper and call the war a wash?
it's true but it's not the war they're selling... it's ww3