woodenghost

Can paint really have enough of an effect on jet engines to take them out? Maybe because it would burn, when the engine gets hot?

Solid advice for terfs and such. Who knew Jesus second coming would be as a Cyborg?

If your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

• Matthew 18:9

You can't tell we what to do! I'll not say what ever I don't want and talk to everyone like they're children.

Thank you!

Yes

And how could anyone seriously disagree? It's so blatantly obviously the truth. The sheer amount of propaganda in Western media is just ridiculous in comparison.

Censored in Europe.

This telegram channel is censored in Europe.

Good point, thanks! 👍

I guess endless conflicts that burn through a lot of equipment as quickly as possible to open up space for more buying is the logical endpoint of a for-profit military force.

Yes exactly. Imperialist wars temporarily alleviate crisis symptoms caused by inherent contradictions. They do the following:

• Destroy lots of value inside the imperialist countries, that flows into building weapons (like dumping it in the ocean, as Marx said). Thereby reducing the problem of the rising mass of capital finding fewer and fewer opportunities for profitable investment. So they remove dead capital that clogs up the arteries of circulation. And lower the crisis of overproduction. That's how they re-enable accumulation by capitalist production. They also destroy value in the attacked countries, creating opportunities for profitable rebuilding. This also helps to give a new kickstart to the aging engine of capital circulation.
• Enable accumulation by dispossession: the government moves value from the people to weapons manufacturers. Critically, this does not threaten anyone's profits since no need is fulfilled. If the government tried doing the above by funding housing, education or health care, the for-profit companies involved in that would lose profits.
• Enable renewed primitive accumulation by opening up markets and access to resources. Similar to colonialism.
• Lenin emphasized, how they also can take out imperialist rivals to allow continued export of (financial) capital and charging of monopoly prices. Thereby reacting to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall and to inter imperialist rivalries.

This last reason is the classic one. But the previous three reasons (championed by Harvey and others) help to understand how war is also fueled by internal contradictions. Even if there was only one single big capitalist state on the planet, war would still be necessary and enemies would have to be invented. That's why Russia was denied entry into NATO when they were at their lowest point and ready to become a subservient vassal to the US. The war machine has to go on.

Interesting, but maybe put the country in the title? US shouldn't have to be the default assumption or non-USians might not feel welcome.