Perpetual war is fun and profitable and in no way connected to the well-orchestrated, over-the-top hostility and routine muzzling directed against Lefty challengers to the Dem-GOP shared monopoly each and every time a challenger opens their mouth. 😗 🎶
@fribbledom i assume this number is only hot wars bc if we include CIA coups and covert ops every year since the second world war would be 100% lol
@melissasage @fribbledom yeah i was thinking of writing the same comment
@melissasage @fribbledom I think the number is something like -- there are only 19 years since the US's founding during which we have not been at war (including the more overt wars against indigenous people, but maybe not the less overt ones)
this poster has all the places the US has bombed since WWII that we know about
@platypus @fribbledom when did the USA bomb Italy post-WWII?
@melissasage @fribbledom I think "since" may be used in the sense of "starting with," since Germany is in there too.
@melissasage @fribbledom I would guess they started with WWII because a) data and b) bombing only became possible w/air flight and WWI we were less involved in
@platypus @fribbledom I once owned a black t-shirt with this imprint...
@fribbledom the chart doesn’t show me accurate percentages if i died before 2019
@zensaiyuki @fribbledom how is the afterlife? please say hello to fidel for me.
@felix @fribbledom it’s nuts. trump got elected president. they have this stupid dance called the floss. the entire country of australia is on fire.
@zensaiyuki @fribbledom uhh i have some news for you...
@fribbledom I started reading the list on wikipedia recently, so many times when the US would be in 2 or 3 simultaneous wars
@fribbledom Acutally, technically...
@fribbledom What is their definition of „war“? By one rather useless definition, the US has never been at war after 1945.
@fribbledom Found the source and an sad they don’t define when they count an armed conflict as war and more interestingly when not.
@fribbledom George Carlin - We like war https://youtu.be/BtSv3x6lh3o
@fribbledom Very interesting
@fribbledom So, basically, if you aren't out of grade school and college, you have no memory of a time the US wasn't at war.
Yeah... if you're from this millennium, you're out of luck 🙄
@fribbledom 64.5% of my life. HECK.
@fribbledom Not quite. While the US has been involved in conflicts all these times, the US had only officially been at war with anyone during the War of Independence, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the American-Spanish War, and the two World Wars, in that order.
@HolyPastrami @fribbledom there is no meaningful difference between engaging in war and being "officially at war"
@zardoz @fribbledom never said there was. Just pointed out the US has legally not been at war since 1945
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@fribbledom oh that's kind of neat.
Everyone alive: 100%
I trust no-one is foolish enough to believe there has been war-free year since then.
I was completely wrong about that it seems.
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...and the two World Wars, in that order.
@fribbledom This is frightening !!
@fribbledom I guess it's good that it shows under 50% of my life 🙁
I guess it's bad since that means I'm old 😢
I also found out a few days ago that I predate the mcdonalds happy meal 😭
@fribbledom this is grossly inaccurate. the US has been at war 222 out of 239 years, 93% of its history
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Since the US feels they need to be "engaged" in every country's affairs, I think it's only fair that we all participate in their elections.
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It's worse than that after WWII the US took step after step to make being at war the default state of the country. They used to need a formal declaration of war to give the government the kind of powers it has by default now.
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In weighing the resources available to the government(s), we can either complain about it, have faith that their best minds are better than our resources and minds, or ... yeah, that's it.
I'm rooting for America to team up with Russia and to make the world one state called Rumerica
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@fribbledom Good to know that the USA has been in late-stage imperialism for over half my life...