this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
405 points (100.0% liked)

Memes of Production

1095 readers
2366 users here now

Seize the Memes of Production

An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.

Other Great Communities:

founded 1 month ago
MODERATORS
 
top 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The world economy is dominated by the world's largest arms dealer by far, the USA.

But it's a much bigger problem than that, as the "directors" are an international banking consortium that control much, much more than arms production alone... they control the world-wide banking system (for example, The FED (controller of the US dollar) and the International monetary fund) and rule the world through debt. This cartel has been around since the slavery days... once, the UK was the headquarters, but now, the USA plays that role.

As this post demonstrates, war is the most fantastic source of profit for them.

They are not nationalist, but they USE nationalism for profit. They often arm and loan money to both sides of a conflict. This ruling class is not one family (like Rockefeller) or bank (like Bank of America), but a collection of the most powerful families and organizations that control generations of wealth.

Also, there's a lot of misinformation out there to shield them from criticism, they are masters of propaganda. Deceit built upon deceit, conspiracies (true and false) abound. Never, ever believe any one source, or any three sources for that matter. Today, most news organizations are either owned by them or controlled by them via other means.

History is the key to knowledge. Now, the web is so complex that it's hard for one person to fathom, but it becomes much easier to grasp if you start at the source and observe their public history over the decades.

Deutsch Bank, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, all serve on each others board (and The FED) and are all part of this cartel. Start at the 1800s and research from there, just pick one...

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 50 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

War is a waste. Eisenhower had many flaws, but he was spot-on when he said:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.[1][5]

Sometimes, there's no other way to deal with fascists and imperialists. But fuck, that just means that fascists and imperialists have doubled the waste that they would've created if they'd just kept to themselves, the stupid fucks.

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And it's not only about weaponry. Every single time we have to halt progression to fight racism, capitalist policies, lgbt-phobia etc, those are calories that could've been used to remove famine, inequality, violence and turn this here globe into a fucking utopia.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I remember touring the museum ship USS North Carolina, and there was a plaque explaining how at this one electrical station, which was one of many on the ship, there was one certified electrician with an entire team of enlisted trainees working under him. And it struck me how many of these young men may have well never seen technology more advanced than a mule-drawn plow, and here they were in World War 2 being trained in bleeding edge technology. And then I thought about what an enormous training program WW2 was, how it taught so many young Americans useful skills that helped drive America's prosperity through the next several decades, and, gosh, wouldn't it be nice if we could commit to that kind of investment in education without having to also blow up huge numbers of people and the places where they live?!

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago

The only chance for all humans to unite would be if somehow aliens from outer space invaded. And even then we'd still need military. :/

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But its used to destroy a several million dollar tank.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago

I don't know why they constantly trim it, but the full quote is "Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable." It's from a book about Afghanistan.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Full of people that will never see $30,000 in their lives. Fighting for people that live luxurious lives in Europe.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that all to the poor, yeah

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We send billions and billions to Ukraine.

And you conveniently forgot to remember that russia can stop it all by just stopping and going home.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Ukraine is being invaded. We're not sending it to the invaders.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

In Ukraine a $500 drone can destroy a million dollar tank these days.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 6 points 14 hours ago

That awkward/ironical moment when a literal flying brick of explosives can do the same damage as an advanced rocket system without costing a fortune.

[–] Andonyx@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I agree with the sentiment of the post but at the time the Javelin was the star of the Ukraine war theater, it's actual cost was...hmm ....wait a second...oh...way way more.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/12/19/bang-for-your-buck-does-a-javelin-missile-really-cost-as-much-as-a-ferrari/

[–] chisel@piefed.social 22 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Geez, $240k for the reusable launcher and $200k per missle, with other similar but less effective missles costing $33k and RPGs (which have 300m range instead of 2500m range and won't kill the same level of armor) at an astonishing $80 a piece. That's more surprising to me, $80 is crazy cheap!

But damn, I wonder how much of the Javelin's price is actual cost vs being a monopoly.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

If you’re talking about an rpg 7 it doesn’t have any fancy electronics or control systems. It’s unguided. It also hasn’t face the us military industrial complex price inflation.

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

It was overbuilt to fight the military russia claimed it had.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Come on Xiaomi, there's an opportunity here.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 7 hours ago

Introducing the Xiavelin X42069!

First you have to slide to unlock the trigger, then watch an ad for 5 seconds, then watch another ad for 10 seconds before the electronics start working, then watch another ad in order to confirm a lock on a vehicle then, finally, you can opt to post a pre-launch photo of your viewfinder, which will be posted on the internet with a 10m precision metadata OR watch another, 30 second ad before firing!

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I’m guessing the asshole that downvoted this either manufactures Javelin rockets, or the assholes that fire them.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There's a small percentage of accidental down votes.

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Can confirm, happens to me multiple times a month while scrolling. Voyager is a nice client, but it's very easy to accidentally downvote something.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

hey asshole manufacturing is a proud and time-honored tradition