• MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    23 days ago

    People have protested the military industrial complex for decades and centuries. Possibly even millennia.

    YOU not being aware of it is different from it not happening.

    Stop the false equivalency and whataboutism.

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      23 days ago

      People have protested the military industrial complex for decades and centuries.

      Here on lemmy i’ve seen more people cheering up at europe’s rearmament than i’ve seen complaining about the military industrial complex power waste.

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        23 days ago

        Europe is supporting Ukraine in an existential fight for their lives.

        This is far different from wanting to generate a false naked picture of some person.

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          Europe is supporting Ukraine in an existential fight for their lives.

          European governments are supporting ukraine government in multiple ways including sending them weapons, this has not much to do with european countries boosting their already over the top military budget.

          This is far different from wanting to generate a false naked picture of some person.

          I would argue that generating a false naked picture of someone is less harmful for humanity than spending the same amount of energy to develop a weapon designed to murder other human beings.

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    Because you get accused of wanting all Ukrainians to die if you oppose the mainstream narrative. And before that it was about being against freedom or something.

    All mainstream media stands together to brainwash people for the military industrial complex.

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    Because war industry is an old story and killing people mostly happen in global south which is benefitting capitalist core so average liberal/conservative just see it as benefit and jobs. AI is new and trendy boogeyman and it’s at home.

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    I live in a Catholic country. Well, I know, countries can’t have religions. Let’s say that the élites impose the marketing and propaganda of that corporation. Every year, they block the streets with massive far-right demonstrations. People dressed as KKK wander the streets burning candles which cost thousands in manpower to clean. On the other hand, when I was younger, people would freely gather at night to have drinks in the street squares. They would litter a lot. The press used to create a great problem about the people drinking but not about the people dropping candle wax.

    Pollution, as crime, is only a political concern when it’s done by the lower classes

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    23 days ago

    Ai is new and added on top of that. Most of us have realized we aren’t gonna stop the military industrial complex unless there is a revolution

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    22 days ago

    You know because arms industry has arms they can use to threaten and kill us