• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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      That’s because the EU was created with the purpose of making an interconnected market where going to war is simply way too costly.

      As the other commenter said, there is a war in Europe though.

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      This period of war in Eastern Europe is pretty shit and I would like Western Europe to take it more seriously, thx

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      Yes, we have decades between (direct involvement in) wars!!
      We didn’t even spend actual money on war stuff the last few decades.

      But we sure are gonna do it now, we need to protect our drinking water (for the coming water wars) and update our firewalls (for the coming Skynet wars).

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        He already said capitalists, state capitalism is still capitalism, no matter if you call it communism.

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        Lol, you mean the state capitalists? You’re not making the (weak, “whatabout”) point you think you are, but hey, your confidence in your wilful ignorance in defence of those exploiting you for profit* is almost impressive! (but not really) 🙄😂

        *E: and guess what, I don’t even need to know where you live to say this, because every working class person on the planet is currently being exploited for profit through both labour and war, but don’t let that get in the way of the bootlicking you’ve come here to do in self-destructive defence of your beloved capitalism (I threw up in my mouth a little)…

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      Everyone in Europe killing each other every generation predates capitalism. Capitalism did increase the scale though; after the fall of the western roman empire, we didn’t see armies of that size until Napoleon managed to draft a million men in a country of 30 million.

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        Lmfao, sorry (not sorry), I should have included feudalists too I guess, to avoid bootlicking pedants… 🙄

        The point stands - war is waged for profit by profiteers, not by random civilians trying to live their lives, always was, always will be.

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          One exception to it : fascists managed to convince people who can only lose stuff to a war that it’s good for them too.

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            One exception to it : fascists capitalists managed to convince people who can only lose stuff to a war that it’s good for them too.

            Fascism is capitalism in decay, there is no exception.