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[-] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

War on drugs - drugs won

War on terror - terror won

War on woke - 🤞

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

It's never been about defeating those things, it's about expanding power using them as an excuse.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Exactly.

  1. War on Drugs - reduce minority voice in government
  2. War on Terror - PATRIOT Act, or whatever its current incarnation is
  3. War on Woke - probably government access to medical records and/or privacy generally, but I guess we'll see
[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

War on Drugs - reduce minority voice in government

And increase incarceration of certain people to expand legal slavery under the 13th amendment.

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

expand legal slavery

Maybe in some states, but in many (most?), they just become a burden on taxpayers.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

War on poverty 😬

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  • War on Woke - war on privacy and access to undesirable (to the state) information

As RATM says:

Who controls the past now, controls the future.

Who controls the present now, controls the past.

It's just Big Brother.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I mean they literally came out and said that they hate empathy.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Considering how tired and sleepy I feel, they may be winning this one.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

interesting

[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago

His one job was to create profit for weapons manufacturers and he did that job very very well

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

His job was to do Israel’s bidding and remove Saddam.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Saddam and his family were genuinely awful, to be fair.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yes, but that’s not really why they removed him.

Plenty of horrible people ruling countries that America has no interest in removing as it doesn’t suit their needs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, like Russia...

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

You're right, they don't go in and remove every dictator, and this one was because they had an ulterior motive.

Nonetheless, they did a good thing.

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

I always say, I celebrate Saddam getting fucked hard while still realizing the whole thing was fucked up. Especially since it was lead by a moron / lunatic

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

That's a nice side effect.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

Declaring war on a concept has never gone well for the states, has it? Drugs, terror, women, the list goes on.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

The war against woman is sadly going strong right now. More than drugs and etc ever has.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Declaring war on a concept has never gone well ~~for the states~~, has it?

Ftfy.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Matter of perspective. Ask halliburton how's it going...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The US isn't known for winning wars historically.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Seems like it has worked pretty well:

  1. Vietnam/Korea/etc - most people hate communism
  2. War on Drugs - police get to arrest minorities, and felons don't get to vote (suppress minority vote)
  3. War on Terror - PATRIOT Act is still alive and well, it just has different names now

With the right perspective, they seem pretty successful to me, you just need to peek behind the curtain.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Declaring war on anything. They need the Europeans to invite them to the final hours of one to chalk a W.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm holding out hope that we can still turn it around and defeat Santa Claus

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Just like the "war on drugs" was never about stopping drugs, this was never about stopping terrorism.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

When you wage a war on an enemy, you win when the enemy is dead. When you wage a war on an idea, there's no final end point.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

What is anon complaining about he did his job. He declared the war. Then he kicked the can down the road for someone else to get the job of winning it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

No, man! He said war OF Terror...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

New skill unlocked: "Lie with energy and in a few years fact checking becomes diabolical."

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

First they funded, supported, and grew the terrorism, and THEN, they fought the terrorism. Then they funded other terrorists. But it's always in countries with natural resources they want.

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

Are we really going back this far, right at this moment?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Mate, I was traumatised when Dragonball z and Pokémon were interrupted before school and this dude was on all the TV stations.

Nothing has been any good sense.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It's not that far back at all. Most events we know about, everyone who remembers it are dead. This idiot lives in many people's memories today, and we're still dealing with some of the consequences.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And his brother was even the establishment favorite to win until Trump took over everything.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Gonna be honest, the idiom/meme "had one job" is almost never correct or appropriate and the role of president is certainly a situation where it does not apply. I find it irksome, most of the time, when people say/type it, without actually thinking things through and applying it appropriately. Don't care if it is an unpopular opinion because it is a fact that it is used incorrectly the vast majority of the time and haters gonna hate, only true appreciators gonna appreciate.

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