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United States News Title: A Headline That Perfectly Encapsulates Mainstream Liberalism: JUST IN: Senate Passes $740 Billion Defense Bill With Provision To Remove Confederate Names Off Military Bases reads a headline from the digital news site Mediaite, which could also serve as a perfect diagnosis for everything that is sick about mainstream liberal orthodoxy. The Democrat-led House and Republican-led Senate have now both passed versions of this bill authorizing three-quarters of a trillion dollars for a single year of military spending, both by overwhelming bipartisan majorities, on the condition that the names of Confederate Civil War leaders be removed from military bases. Unsurprisingly, Security Policy Reform Institutes Stephen Semler found a direct relationship between how much a House Democrat has been paid by the war industry and how likely they were to have voted for the bloated military budget which also obstructs any attempts to scale down troop presence in Afghanistan. This is everything that is horrible about the Democratic Party and the ideological position of mainstream liberals. Their leaders have figured out a way to trade hard objects for empty narrative. To get people to consent to almost limitless amounts of thievery, murder and exploitation in exchange for words and stories. Theyll get rid of Confederate names on bases, but they wont even slightly reduce the vast fortunes theyre stealing from an impoverished populace and pouring into global slaughter and oppression. Theyll kneel wearing Kente cloth, but they wont even think about dismantling the US police state. Theyll say I hear you, and thats something were looking at, but theyll never intervene against plutocrats funnelling money away from the needful to add to their unfathomably vast fortunes. Theyll call you whatever gender pronoun you like, but theyll never do anything to inconvenience the oligarchs and warmongers. Theyll still make you fight tooth and claw for each empty concession, because otherwise theyd be devaluing the empty, imaginary currency theyre trading you in exchange for the concrete things they want. But in the end there is no amount of narrative the powerful wont swap out for actual policy changes of substance, because narrative in and of itself has no value. Manipulators understand this distinction with crystal clear lucidity. Their victims do not. In reality it would be a lot more truthful and authentic for the bases within the US war machine to continue to bear the names of racists, killers and oppressors, since these embody the values of that war machine far better than anything with a more pleasant ring to it. As long as youre robbing the American people to murder brown-skinned foreigners for corporate interests and geostrategic resource control, you might as well have names which reflect such values on your war machinery. So I say keep the Confederate names on the bases. Hell, add more of them. Add the names of Nazis, genocidal warlords and serial killers too while youre at it. Itd certainly be a lot more honest and accurate to have a Fort Jeffrey Dahmer as part of Americas murder machine than a Fort Colin Kaepernick. War is the single worst thing in the world. It is the most evil, insane, counter-productive, wasteful, damaging, kleptocratic and unsustainable thing that human beings do, by a very wide margin. If Americans could viscerally experience all of the horrors that are inflicted by the war machine their wealth and resources are being funneled into, with their perception unfiltered by propaganda and government secrecy, they would fall to their knees screaming with abject rage. They would be in the streets immediately forcing an end to this unforgivable savagery. Which is exactly why America has so much government secrecy and propaganda. If Americans could see with their perceptions unmanipulated, their response to the news that $740 billion is being stolen from the American people by a sociopathic murder machine in exchange for removing the names of Confederate leaders from its bases would not be Oh good, maybe well get a Fort Harriet Tubman! It would be rage. Unmitigated, unforgiving rage. Which is all the status quo deserves. Which is all the Democratic Party exists to prevent. Thanks for reading! The best way to get around the internet censors and make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list for my website, which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. 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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
The federal government spent twice that on healthcare. States spent around $600 billion. That totals over $2 trillion, three times what we spent on the military. We spend more on healthcare than any other country in the world. Yet it's still not enough for this bozo?
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