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[-] flathead@quex.cc 15 points 1 year ago

War! What is it good for? It's good for business! -- Billy Bragg ("North Sea Bubble")

https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/9780531

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Ferengi rules of acquisition:

  1. War is good for business
  2. Peace is good for business.
[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

rules

Sounds pretty authoritarian. Not true capitalism :(

(/s)

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I suspect they ~~seem~~ see them more as laws of nature than obligations.

[-] NumaNuma@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Ferengi are the ultimate capitalist realists.

[-] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

In Danish we have an idiom which says "der er intet der er så skidt, at det ikke er godt for noget" which roughly translates to "there's nothing that's so bad it isn't good for anything"

[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Only the end of capitalism through socialism will war ever not be the primary focus of the ruling class.

https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts This article is pretty good at showing the OBSCENE amount of US Aid given to Ukraine. It EASILY surpasses the money we gave to Taiwan, Pakistan and Latin America during the 60s. We’ve given more money to Ukraine in 2 years than the entire state of Virginia’s annual budget. 61% of the US Aid is directly related to military training, weapons and building bases. Great info in this article I highly recommend it.

[-] simon575@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] simon575@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Nvm, found it: https://imgur.io/r/PropagandaPosters/Tf0YhXq It's from 1953, so not 80 years old!

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