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Graham Platner on how billionaires want you to own nothing and the need to build something new (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] -3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

you go read his platform about increasing military benefits and initiating a "massive shipbuilding project"

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I don't understand how making VA benefits better equates to imperialism

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    They just want military vets to suffer. Not because a lot of them were kids scooped up by a war machine with the promise of free college, no. It’s because their tenuous grasp of imperialism dictates that any and all actors are blood thirsty Americans eating Iraqi babies and drinking the blood of the afghans.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    First, si vis pacem, para bellum. If you're defencless, you get invaded. If you want peace, you need to be ready to fight, to some extent. The current budget? Way too large, and he agrees. Shipbuilding though? We are shit at it now. We need to do better if we don't want to rely on China, which makes us a target. This includes commercial as well as military.

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