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[-] [email protected] 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"The war is cheap in terms of American lives" is a right wing, nationalist sentiment. "American" lives dont have any more value than any other lives.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Sure, but the American government's entire point is to collect American taxes and provide benefits for Americans. To minimize monetary cost and maximize benefit to American lives is exactly what it should be doing.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wait, are you telling me that nations are oriented around nationalism?

This is why I'm for stateless global communism

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

That's not how global politics work. Your idealism is extreme.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

"Capitalism seems inescapable, so to did the divine rights of kings" -Le Guin

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