Kansas Crimson

KUTradition wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:33 am i’ve already said why, but you either flat out ignored it, didn’t read it, or don’t agree with it

Qusdahl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:40 am

KUTradition wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:33 am i’ve already said why, but you either flat out ignored it, didn’t read it, or don’t agree with it

Man.

I’d kindly ask for a refresher, but I don’t wanna ruffle any more feathers.

Can we please just get along?

Or, if nothing else, I’ll just wave the white flag and excuse myself from this thread.

Qusdahl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:32 am And, come on, when so much of our economy and our gummint and our identity is military, why wouldn’t the MIC wanna ramp up the war machine?

again, they think in terms of dollars, not lives.

And considering it’s been all of *checks notes* 6 months since our last foreign invasion of a war on the other side of the world, they gotta do something to keep bidness a boomin, no pun intended.

Then these Q style hunches like, in a society in which corporations own and control pretty much everything, is it really a stretch to suggest the (corporate-owned) media might have an interest in fostering support for the (corporate-owned) war machine?

Qusdahl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 12:25 pm Not trying to bicker, but if I may respectfully ask - could you consider whether there’s any risk to the “now is not the time” sort of rhetoric?

That seems like precisely the kind of thinking the war machine propaganda wants to condition us to do. What good is being anti-war, if you’re supposed to suddenly keep quiet as soon as the war drums beat again?

If we DONT make the conversation broader, then aren’t we just making it narrower? Isn’t that playing right into the warmonger’s hands, by reducing the narrative from some actual understanding that might foster some actual dialogue toward peace, down to the oversimplified “good vs evil” sort of rhetoric it takes to gain public support for war?

That logic seems about as good as, the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting being “not the time” to discuss gun violence. Do we really need more thoughts and prayers?

KUTradition wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 12:32 pm

Qusdahl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 12:25 pm Not trying to bicker, but if I may respectfully ask - could you consider whether there’s any risk to the “now is not the time” sort of rhetoric?

That seems like precisely the kind of thinking the war machine propaganda wants to condition us to do. What good is being anti-war, if you’re supposed to suddenly keep quiet as soon as the war drums beat again?

If we DONT make the conversation broader, then aren’t we just making it narrower? Isn’t that playing right into the warmonger’s hands, by reducing the narrative from some actual understanding that might foster some actual dialogue toward peace, down to the oversimplified “good vs evil” sort of rhetoric it takes to gain public support for war?

That logic seems about as good as, the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting being “not the time” to discuss gun violence. Do we really need more thoughts and prayers?

that’s a false equivalence

the time to not talk about gun violence is in the middle of a mass shooting, while people are still loosing their lives and the shooter is actively roaming the halls

ProudBoy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 12:16 pm

Qusdahl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:32 am And, come on, when so much of our economy and our gummint and our identity is military, why wouldn’t the MIC wanna ramp up the war machine?

again, they think in terms of dollars, not lives.

And considering it’s been all of *checks notes* 6 months since our last foreign invasion of a war on the other side of the world, they gotta do something to keep bidness a boomin, no pun intended.

Then these Q style hunches like, in a society in which corporations own and control pretty much everything, is it really a stretch to suggest the (corporate-owned) media might have an interest in fostering support for the (corporate-owned) war machine?

Товарищ, не обращайте внимания на этих западных марионеток. Величие России восторжествует, и противники нас содрогнутся перед нашей мощью.

Qusdahl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:19 pm
Maybe we’d have actual GOOD relations with Russia, rather than Russia justifying their aggression cuz of our aggression first. (Fuck Putin)

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:07 pm Russia says 500 soldiers dead and 1,600 injured since the invasion began. Ukraine says they have record of almost 7,000 dead Russian soldiers and hundreds captured. Pentagon says it's probably an even about 1,500 on each side that have died in this invasion.

Probably won't ever get an accurate number from anybody.

Almost 7,000 Russians arrested for protesting.