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Trump has directed the national guard in DC to pick up garbage. Are we witnessing his turn to Maoism? /s
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We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.
"Get Organized!" (November 29,), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 153.
Anyway
I often think we should have a government office whose structure may be military like but they just go around doing everything that needs done. Like we pay people to sit around bases and occasionally push a button to blow up weddings. Why the fuck can't they be paid to fill in potholes, fix bridges, make trails, etc.
That would be communism tho
Bruh the fucking Roman Empire had their Legionnaires build roads and shit while being nearly as belligerent as America because it's better to use fit healthy men on a government payroll than let them fuck around. Capitalism is uniquely evil since it's a continuation of feudalism.
Literally just send the military imo
Ya I mean literally. You got all these dudes just vibing waiting to vaporize some brown people... Could we like have them build roads instead? No?
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Tactically ascertained and apprehended the aluminum can for recycling
My region, a couple years back, put out PSAs to get people to return their empties to the Bottle Depots that were a weird mix of old WWII homefront "do your part" posters asking people to collect certain household trash and grow Victory Gardens, and modern spy film tropes. Sounded a lot like that statement. Utterly ridiculous, but if it got even one more bottle or can properly recycled, I'm happy they did it.
This would be amazing, and sooo much cheaper than deploying the NG for those purposes.
You are describing the national parks service
If there's a way to wind down the US empire, it probably involves doing something like this
Like 80% of the bridges in the country are in critical condition or something. Go have them hold them up
Harper O'Connor gave a CCCRU talk about exactly that, it's the newest video on his channel