In what universe did they lose the war on drugs? Marijuana never got rescheduled. People still get their lives ruined over it. It’s impossible to consume cannabis and be gainfully employed at the same time in the US and a sickening majority of people STILL believe this is how things should be. Corporations collude together to make sure they’re all using the exact same drug testing procedures so that really valuable people can’t just decide to go somewhere that treats them better. Yet they do nothing to fight with or systematically harm people who consume alcohol when off duty or come into work hungover.
All the states with lower costs of living are still allowed to put people in jail for possession. And people fight to keep it this way. They made Florida ballot initiatives need a 60% to pass just to defeat the recent marijuana amendment and NO ONE FUCKING CARED. This is far from “losing” the war on drugs.
I guess I’m going to have to tell all the people at my company and my friends’ workplaces that they can’t be gainfully employed while they use weed as their primary or (increasingly often) only intoxicant.
The drugs are still here. More than never before. Doesn’t matter if the war is still raging. They aren’t going away.
Does Vicky think Russia is losing the war?
They certainly haven’t won
It is kind of a weird take when Russia has captured quite a bit of land. Sure, it’s costing them a lot (you might even say in inordinate sum), but characterizing them as losing is a hard sell.
They are losing right now…they can’t actually replace the airplanes and other resources, due to their economy slowly crashing.
So that will be their undoing. Dad is going to get a reality check soon (=
The “war on drugs” was never about winning. It was about funneling public money into private pockets and about scaring the populace into compliance. Same with the immigration bullshit.
winning the war isnt the goal
“The US will always do the right thing… after having exhausted all other possibilities.”
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“Terror”. The US loves waging unwinnable wars against inanimate objects (drugs) and feelings (terror) lol totally irrational.
Well just like with War on Drugs is not about winning. It’s about making as much money off of it as you can. Note they didn’t try to address the problems with immigration. They didn’t change the Green Card system. They didn’t expand the number of immigration judges. They didn’t do anything except fund ice and fund more detention centers which are privately run at extremely huge markups.
And prison slavery is legal. Guess who will be working the farms
Edit: it’s legal.
Prison slavery is technically illegal, but they are paid incredibly meager wages to where it’s essentially legal slavery.
I meant to say prison slavery is legal
Vietnam was not lost, it was abandoned.
So true bestie.
Unrelated, but the other day, someone cornered me in an alley with a gun and demanded I hand over my wallet - but I didn’t lose to them! I simply put my hands up and abandoned my wallet, very different.
Lol, lmao even
We retreated after taking massive losses and accomplishing none of our strategic objectives, unless you consider sending a generation of youth, poisoning the land for generations, and committing countless atrocities to be the real objectives, rather than the stated goal of preventing Vietnam, a country that is still communist to this day, from becoming communist?
I know it’s going to hurt when lemmy tries to smack the liberal out of you but we will still love you in the end
It was absolutely lost.
The bloated ICE budget isn’t just to wage war against immigrants, it’s also because they realized the military wouldn’t side with them if they tried to seize/retain power. Now they have a massive, well-funded army of racist thugs that answers only to them, sidestepping the Constitution and chain-of-command entirely.
This is like the SS in 1920s germany, right?
It was the SA back then, the brownshirts. But I think the inspiration is more the Rosgvardiya in Russia
The military are actually trained though. There’s no point trying to train these guys they are military rejects.
The US military versus these guys would be more farcical than anything else.
The point is that the military will sit it out since they can’t be deployed domestically
Why not? Trump just deployed them to LA and got away with it. He could do it again. The courts have proven about a dozen times since the election that they will not hold him accountable for blatant constitutional violations. Half of congress is on his side so they will never hold him accountable either. There’s nobody left to stop him from doing whatever he wants.
If the US gets to that point I don’t think those rules will apply anymore.
not if the protesters are declared foreign agents/a civil war is declared.
look at the Syrian, Sudanese and Egyptian revolutions
Don’t forget Afghanistan.
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The war was not lost there, it was pretty quickly won. The reconstruction was lost.
I‘d say it was a very long fought war against the Taliban, who managed to survive and eventually won since they are in charge now.
At this point, after seeing that new budget, I’m just trying to think of ways to defraud the shit out of ICE. They’re going to be writing checks without even glancing at the PO unless it’s over 10 million
Send their office an invoice for whatever, they’ll probably just pay it.
Make sure to also provide the service. Otherwise you could get in trouble for fraud.
That has to be a market for XXL bulletproof vests. Although it’s the US so that’s probably already a thing.
Right right. But you can’t funnel money out of the system if there isn’t any going into it.
