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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"The war is cheap in terms of American lives" is a right wing, nationalist sentiment. "American" lives dont have any more value than any other lives.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but the American government's entire point is to collect American taxes and provide benefits for Americans. To minimize monetary cost and maximize benefit to American lives is exactly what it should be doing.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, are you telling me that nations are oriented around nationalism?

This is why I'm for stateless global communism

[–] Malek061 -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not how global politics work. Your idealism is extreme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Capitalism seems inescapable, so to did the divine rights of kings" -Le Guin