It's never about winning the war. The pouring of a horrifying amount of money is the point.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
541 points (98.6% liked)
Microblog Memes
8406 readers
1760 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The US doesn't always lose. They won against the indigenous peoples in the Indian Wars (1775-1924).
In what universe did they lose the war on drugs? Marijuana never got rescheduled. People still get their lives ruined over it. It's impossible to consume cannabis and be gainfully employed at the same time in the US and a sickening majority of people STILL believe this is how things should be. Corporations collude together to make sure they're all using the exact same drug testing procedures so that really valuable people can't just decide to go somewhere that treats them better. Yet they do nothing to fight with or systematically harm people who consume alcohol when off duty or come into work hungover.
All the states with lower costs of living are still allowed to put people in jail for possession. And people fight to keep it this way. They made Florida ballot initiatives need a 60% to pass just to defeat the recent marijuana amendment and NO ONE FUCKING CARED. This is far from "losing" the war on drugs.
The drugs are still here. More than never before. Doesn't matter if the war is still raging. They aren't going away.
I guess I'm going to have to tell all the people at my company and my friends' workplaces that they can't be gainfully employed while they use weed as their primary or (increasingly often) only intoxicant.
Maybe we should coin a new term: blue state privilege. Some people need to be reminded that just because it's legal in your state, and your company doesn't test for it, the majority of states still don't have recreational use and the companies there still test for it. Crazy how in the land of the free, the privileged ones living in the highest cost of living states which also happen to be liberal can smoke it freely while the rest of us get a criminal record and/or fired.
The "war on drugs" was never about winning. It was about funneling public money into private pockets and about scaring the populace into compliance. Same with the immigration bullshit.
winning the war isnt the goal
"The US will always do the right thing... after having exhausted all other possibilities."
"Terror". The US loves waging unwinnable wars against inanimate objects (drugs) and feelings (terror) lol totally irrational.
Well just like with War on Drugs is not about winning. It's about making as much money off of it as you can. Note they didn't try to address the problems with immigration. They didn't change the Green Card system. They didn't expand the number of immigration judges. They didn't do anything except fund ice and fund more detention centers which are privately run at extremely huge markups.
And prison slavery is legal. Guess who will be working the farms
Edit: it's legal.
Prison slavery is technically illegal, but they are paid incredibly meager wages to where it's essentially legal slavery.
I meant to say prison slavery is legal
The bloated ICE budget isn't just to wage war against immigrants, it's also because they realized the military wouldn't side with them if they tried to seize/retain power. Now they have a massive, well-funded army of racist thugs that answers only to them, sidestepping the Constitution and chain-of-command entirely.
This is like the SS in 1920s germany, right?
It was the SA back then, the brownshirts. But I think the inspiration is more the Rosgvardiya in Russia
The military are actually trained though. There's no point trying to train these guys they are military rejects.
The US military versus these guys would be more farcical than anything else.
The point is that the military will sit it out since they can't be deployed domestically
Why not? Trump just deployed them to LA and got away with it. He could do it again. The courts have proven about a dozen times since the election that they will not hold him accountable for blatant constitutional violations. Half of congress is on his side so they will never hold him accountable either. There's nobody left to stop him from doing whatever he wants.
If the US gets to that point I don't think those rules will apply anymore.
not if the protesters are declared foreign agents/a civil war is declared.
look at the Syrian, Sudanese and Egyptian revolutions
Don't forget Afghanistan.
The war was not lost there, it was pretty quickly won. The reconstruction was lost.
I‘d say it was a very long fought war against the Taliban, who managed to survive and eventually won since they are in charge now.
At this point, after seeing that new budget, I'm just trying to think of ways to defraud the shit out of ICE. They're going to be writing checks without even glancing at the PO unless it's over 10 million
Send their office an invoice for whatever, they'll probably just pay it.
Make sure to also provide the service. Otherwise you could get in trouble for fraud.
That has to be a market for XXL bulletproof vests. Although it's the US so that's probably already a thing.
Right right. But you can't funnel money out of the system if there isn't any going into it.