Republicans turn into diehard Keynesians when the "stimulus" is the most socially harmful one possible, w the narrowest possible benefithttps://twitter.com/CameraguyRob/status/836368447051284480 …
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1984 straight up argued war (and the military-industrial complex) is the best way to keep ppl working hard while seeing no benefit
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Spend years designing, months building, weeks shipping out something with no purpose but to literally explode into smithereens
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And the best part is that war provides an *emotional* sense of benefit while in most cases materially providing very little
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What I fear is Trump will try to control the media and redefine objectives so he can declare "victory" more easily w/o changing anything
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And for his base it might work, considering how disconnected they've been from everything else
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Cf. ppl on here right now barging into threads asking "How do you KNOW the Yemen operation wasn't a victory"
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Like, the fuck do they know or care abt ISIS? They're more likely to get hit by a school bus than ever be directly affected by ISIS
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So when Trump says that ISIS has invaded America and runs the entire city of Cleveland under shariah law, ppl listen and vote accordingly
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Then he says he personally killed everyone in ISIS and the world is now a global utopia of Christian brotherhood and they buy that too
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