The president’s proposed $445bn increase in military spending would batter popular domestic programs as millions struggle

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

-The Chance for Peace speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

How far we have fallen. But . . .

  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    You’re not real big on governance or large organizations, i see.

    Yeah, That’s why I’m a socialist, because Im not big on governance or large organizations…

    You see, once more than 5 people work towards a common goal, things take longer and involve something called “discussion”. Then you have your “rules”, “protocols”, “traditions”, “communications”, and a near-infinite set of contradictory opinions which must be managed such that progress can exist at all

    Lol, and that requires the DNC to pander towards lobbyist groups and constantly meet the demands of fascist?

    child, we think it’s easy, we all agree - let’s do it. But as an adult we find it doesn’t exactly work like that. At all.

    Insert enlightened centerist meme. Governments around the world, including the US under FDR have forced real progressive change. It doesn’t take shaking hands with the right, it takes actual political will. The current DNC are just happy with the current status quo which allows them to pad their own wallets.

    That you think that candidate could win in this environment. I love the idea - heck I’d vote for that, but you see this? Look around you - this is called “a bubble”. It’s not an analog to the real world. And your “perfect candidate” would not win, period.

    Instead of embracing left winged populism, the DNC ran a 90 year old man and then a center right girl boss cop. Truly a mark of political brilliance…

    People clearly want change, which is what trump promised them. It’s how fascist have come to power throughout history. When the “progressive” party of the age fails to offer real progressive change a fascist will come to fill in that political void.

    As this is what you didn’t vote against. Enjoy.

    Lol, if you can recall I started this conversation stating that I begrudgingly voted for Harris?

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Lol, if you can recall I started this conversation stating that I begrudgingly voted for Harris?

      Oh you’re right, my mistake. Well, I certainly will support a candidate that can win and deliver all the luxury space communism goods.