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US now has a military culture


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2022 May 28, 5:15am   1,520 views  12 comments

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“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics.”—Professor Henry A. Giroux

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/mass_shootings_the_vicious_cycle_fueled_by_americas_toxic_cult_of_violence

The United States is the number one consumer, exporter and perpetrator of violence and violent weapons in the world.

Violence has become America’s calling card.

We are a military culture engaged in continuous warfare.

We have been a nation at war for most of our existence.

We are a nation that makes a living from killing through defense contracts, weapons manufacturing and endless wars.

We are being fed a steady diet of violence through our entertainment, news, sports and politics.

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1   AmericanKulak   2022 May 28, 7:43am  

I hardly think of violence.

We've become a get rich and fuck you culture, with Woke Virtue replacing civic virtue and religious sentiment. The enables the subversion of our institutions.
2   RC2006   2022 May 28, 2:04pm  

Everything aside Top Gun 2 was good and zero woke shit.
3   Ceffer   2022 May 28, 2:15pm  

RC2006 says
Everything aside Top Gun 2 was good and zero woke shit.

What, no sassy lesbian fighter pilots out performing the men or black computer geniuses/bosses or tranny supporting roles? What a relic. Not even one white cheerleader fucked by a ghetto rat? What are they trying to do, cause jonesing from woke withdrawal?
4   richwicks   2022 May 28, 2:36pm  

DooDahMan says
gabbar says
The United States is the number one consumer, exporter and perpetrator of violence and violent weapons in the world.


American Exceptionalism and that's what makes this country great !


We can have TRUE exceptionalism and we once did. A bunch of Neocon communist fuckers have hijacked the greatness of this nation.

We are able to be the best, most powerful, most moral nation this world has ever seen. Look at the device you're using now to read this, look at the communication system you're using to read this, we created it. We are a flawed nation, we have done horrific things as a nation in the past, we mostly and very intentionally exterminated the natives of this nation, we have done horrific things, but we can be the best nation ever seen on this planet, and I think we were once despite our flaws.

People who support intervention just ignore all of the results of our "intervention", every single fucking time we do it, hurts this nation and other nations, and makes a few fucking cocksockers rich. Kill the MIC and this will be a great nation again.
5   Hircus   2022 May 28, 2:49pm  

Ceffer says

RC2006 says
Everything aside Top Gun 2 was good and zero woke shit.

What, no sassy lesbian fighter pilots out performing the men or black computer geniuses/bosses or tranny supporting roles? What a relic. Not even one white cheerleader fucked by a ghetto rat? What are they trying to do, cause jonesing from woke withdrawal?


lol so true. I've seen all of those a few times recently. Especially black computer geniuses.
6   richwicks   2022 May 28, 2:56pm  

RC2006 says

Everything aside Top Gun 2 was good and zero woke shit.


Top Gun 2 is just more fucking propaganda for more fucking stupid war.

Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. The US overthrew them in 1953 with Operation Ajax. Look at the fucking mess that created? It made a dictatorship that could only be resisted by religious nutcases, and they won in 1979 with the Iranian hostage crisis.

Just fucking leave them alone. Are they a fucked up nation? Sure - they are, we made them fucked up. How many times do we have to fuck up entire societies before we realize that their own natural development is both beneficial to themselves, and us?

There's plenty of horrible nations, with terrible governments, but their people WILL fix them. Our priority is to fix our own nation, our own terrible government. My government, my government of stupid assholes, keep fucking up other governments. I'm tired of it. I'm 50, this has been going on longer than I've been alive. I'm tired of it.
7   gabbar   2022 May 29, 1:58pm  

I don't think it's wise to take all the guns away from people and give all the power to the government. We see how they are with an armed populace, they still have a tendency towards totalitarianism. And the more increased power and control you have over people, the easier it is for them to do what they do. And it's a natural inclination, when you're a person in power, to try to hold more power and acquire more power. - Joe Rogan
8   B.A.C.A.H.   2022 May 29, 2:03pm  

richwicks says
Look at the fucking mess that created? It made a dictatorship that could only be resisted by religious nutcases


President Carter's toast to the shah in 1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqrHQpRHwws
9   richwicks   2022 May 29, 2:09pm  

B.A.C.A.H. says

richwicks says
Look at the fucking mess that created? It made a dictatorship that could only be resisted by religious nutcases


President Carter's toast to the shah in 1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqrHQpRHwws


I'm not a particular fan of Carter, but he was better than George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and MUCH better than Joe Biden. Those 3 assholes have done more damage to this nation than nearly anybody, other than Woodrow Wilson.
10   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2022 May 29, 2:57pm  

Yawn. A bunch of non specific non sequiturs.

Troll harder.
11   HeadSet   2022 May 29, 6:24pm  

gabbar says
US now has a military culture

All cultures from the dawn of civilization are "warrior" cultures. Notice all the statues worldwide of all the war heroes - ever see a statue of a pacifist? France still admires Napoleon, Great Britain still admires Nelson, Mongolians admire Genghis Khan, Africans admire Shaka Zulu. Historical generals like Rommel, Patton, Zhukov, Grant, Caeser, Hannible, and Alexander are held in high regard. Even lower-level warriors like Pancho Villa, Geronimo, and Sitting Bull are admired and have statues. Even the Japanese like MacArthur and the Americans liked war hero Eisenhower enough to make him president. And what would Kennedy be without the PT-19 story? Hell, around here they even celebrate the pirate Blackbeard. All empires since ancient Persia were built by warrior kings admired for their conquests. We even named a car company after conqueror DeSoto, and cities after conqueror Cortez.
12   richwicks   2022 May 29, 6:42pm  

HeadSet says

gabbar says
US now has a military culture

All cultures from the dawn of civilization are "warrior" cultures. Notice all the statues worldwide of all the war heroes - ever see a statue of a pacifist? France still admires Napoleon, Great Britain still admires Nelson, Mongolians admire Genghis Khan, Africans admire Shaka Zulu. Historical generals like Rommel, Patton, Zhukov, Grant, Caeser, Hannible, and Alexander are held in high regard. Even lower-level warriors like Pancho Villa, Geronimo, and Sitting Bull are admired and have statues. Even the Japanese like MacArthur and the Americans liked war hero Eisenhower enough to make him president. And what would Kennedy be without the PT-19 story? Hell, around here they even celebrate the pirate Blackbeard. All empires since ancient Persia were built by warrior kings admired for their conquests. We even named a car company after conqueror DeSoto, and cities aft...


I should like to point out that the legacies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Mark Milley, David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton - etc - will just be one of relief, because the bastards are finally dead.

How many people here even knew that Donald Rumsfeld is dead?

The people that have been making war for the last 20 years are traitors, and everybody knows it, at least subconsciously.

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