Exclusive War with Iran starting this week (17 Viewers)

[BigGameDamian]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[crandc]

Trump now saying he might end the war without opening the Strait.

As for spokesliar Karoline Leavitt, the US twice bombed Iran while in midst of negotiations. So who wasn't negotiating on good faith?

 

[Sheldon Shape]

This made me nauseous all day.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[Phatguysrule]

My honest take is that it’s absolutely insane how much money we as humanity spend fighting against ourselves, and how much we don’t do to take care of ourselves.

It’s maddening… Imagine if we took all the money we spend on developing weapons to attack ourselves, and defenses to help us from our attacks - and actually spent it in a way which would benefit society.

Am I just naive or ignorant for thinking it could be so simple? Cause really it seems like it could be as easy as agreeing to not spend money on stupid shit like this, and then have all that insane stupid money you spend on it going into something which helps people instead of the opposite.

If we did that then the wealthy would lose power. Not all power, but they wouldn't have as much power.

But I agree. It could be great. It could be so easy.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Rastapopoulos]

If they actually WERE fetuses maybe Hegseth would care about them dying

 

[Sheldon Shape]

 

[PDXFonz]

If we did that then the wealthy would lose power. Not all power, but they wouldn't have as much power.

But I agree. It could be great. It could be so easy.

A lot of wealthy people are also wealthy because of the money they make off of warfare.

I understand what a drastic shift it would be in the economy and societies.

Ive thought about it a decent amount. One of the biggest (reasonable) questions I came up with is - How do you restructure military positions so that those who serve and are compensated for doing so, still have jobs.

My favorite fantasy of a life like that is where we take most of the money spent on warfare, and re-direct it to space exploration. Then those in the military could have jobs in the production of equipment and maintenance work. Expand the ISS, and turn it into like a ship harbor for the production of spacecraft. So basically building stuff in space, which would open up a lot of jobs but still probably not as many as would be lost if militaries were dissolved.

 

[crandc]

With his personal pastor at his side, Hegseth rhapsodized about death and destruction against those who, in his words, deserve no mercy.

Yesterday I visited a friend who is a devout Catholic. I mean, crucifix on the wall, religious statues, shrine to Mary, whole bit. She was appalled at these self professed Christians. Gesturing to statue of Christ, she said he was all about mercy.

But today's Christians in power think he was all about trans people using restroom.

 

[BigGameDamian]