• jaschop@awful.systems
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    6 hours ago

    I’m not gonna fault an american for an opinion like that, but if you’re involved with european leftists who are too busy virtue signalling to adopt any pragmatic defense policy positions, you get a real appreciation for the nuance.

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      5 hours ago

      I’m all for artistic prose, emphatic amd impactful prose, but so many people think impact is more important than accuracy and coherence.

      We can assume they mean (or would accept the substitution of) “the military industrial complex” instead of the concept of “maintaining a military”, but the symmetry required them to be less accurate.