@usefewersyllables
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is the lack of morality evident in profiteering off of death and destruction.
Being a peacenik, it just makes no sense whatsoever. I think there is a
law somewhere that is supposed to prevent this? If so, it is not working.

I once again present one of my favorite Dropkick Murphys tunes- a truly heartfelt cover of the beautiful Eric Bogle song "No Man's Land", which they retitled "The Green Fields Of France".

War is, indeed, a racket.

@on the cusp
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Just the idea that the gummit would try to disarm the public
is enough to initiate a revolt.

The bread is on its first rise. So far, so good. Took a lot of finesse'n.
Been awhile since I fired-up the bread machine. Not into kneading.

So, Democrats aren't focusing on peace, controlling inflation, Medicare For All, protecting Social Security, or anything else they promised.
First thing Monday morning, Texas Democrats proposed 20 house bills restricting guns. Arizona Democrats who just won their House said gun safety is their top priority.
Globalists find unarmed populations easier to control.
Maybe the globalists will be kind to us, for the first time EVAH.
Happy cooking, Cap'n!

@on the cusp @on the cusp
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it is downhill with the sled his mind is on.
Although I would not define it so much as being evil,
rather a desperate attempt to maintain a facade of being
relevant. He has lost that handle already. The rest is either
scrambling to project lost power or proving to himself he is a
'stable genius' or some such. Our fearless leader who is neither
fearless (TACO) nor a leader in any sense.

Psychiatry Department.

@enhydra lutris
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the latest meme "peace thru strength" is silly to think about.

Here is another smoldering confrontation in 'our backyard' -

US Renews Designation of Nicaragua as an ‘Extraordinary Threat’

As if a tiny country like Nicaragua could ever be considered a threat to the
military hegemony which is the US. The issue is they refuse to bend the knee
like Cuba. Therefore considered a threat and extraordinary at that.

https://orinocotribune.com/us-renews-designation-of-nicaragua-as-an-extr...

nation-state, but I'm not sure that we really qualify as a civilization. Not sure if "western civilization" ever existed, but it definitely has never managed to infect the good old US of A. Today is a perfect semantic proof. There was once a peace of sorts and much of the world gladly celebrated it. Many parts still do, but the very idea of celebrating a peace, even if ephemeral, was anathema to the political and oligarch classes of this country so it was changed into a celebration of the nation's warriors.

So, how many weeks has the USA not been engaged in armed conflict since 11/11/1918? I posed this question to google and was told:

Determining the exact number of weeks the United States has spent completely free of armed conflict since November 11, 1918, depends on how "armed conflict" is defined—such as whether small interventions, covert operations, or peacekeeping missions are included—as historical data shows the U.S. has been engaged in military actions for the vast majority of its modern history, with virtually zero full calendar years of total peace.

Total Time Span (Nov 11, 1918 to Nov 11, 1926)

• Total Days: 39,447 days
• Total Weeks: Approximately 5,635 weeks

Periods of Relative Peace

While the U.S. has rarely gone an extended stretch without some form of military deployment, occupation, or active combat operation (such as the Banana Wars in the 1920s/1930s, post-WWII occupations, the Cold War, and post-9/11 counterterrorism operations), historians point to a few relatively quiet interwar or post-conflict windows:
• Late 1920s to early 1930s: Brief lulls between the end of major Latin American interventions and the onset of World War II, though smaller marine presences and patrols still occurred.
• Post-Vietnam / Pre-Gulf War lulls (e.g., late 1975 through the late 1970s/1980s): Though the Cold War was active with proxy conflicts, direct U.S. combat involvement was sparse for brief intervals (aside from minor operations like the Mayaguez rescue, Eagle Claw, Grenada, and Beirut).
Because official and unofficial military engagements, drone strikes, advisements, and deployments have overlapped almost continuously across the 20th and 21st centuries, zero complete weeks have passed in which the U.S. military was entirely unengaged in some form of active foreign or domestic armed conflict, intervention, or hostility classification.

be well and have a good one