r/boringdystopia • u/Blurple694201 • Sep 22 '24

Media Manipulation 📰 I wonder why they would say something like this

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u/HighOnKalanchoe Sep 22 '24

“War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.”

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u/Blurple694201 Sep 22 '24

This is from 2014, but this isn't something most people read so I'm posting it now

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u/BoomkinBeaks Sep 22 '24

You’re safer and richer if you are on the winning side and the war took place in some one else’s country.

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u/karoshikun Sep 22 '24

until the other side breaks down so far the people starts to form terrorist cells

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u/holaprobando123 Sep 23 '24

And the countries the fighting happens in are far away from yours.

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u/youcantkillanidea Sep 22 '24

It's the "us" that's doing the heavy lifting there. Corporate War Industrial Complex

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u/MaxPistolrounds Sep 22 '24

They probably do make you richer, if you're the owner of the Washington post.

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u/ZyxDarkshine Sep 22 '24

If you cut off both legs at the knee with a chainsaw, you’ll never have to worry about stepping on a lego again

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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 Sep 22 '24

"Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make". -Capitalism

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u/DubbleCheez Sep 22 '24

Is that from The Big Book Of War?

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u/AechCutt Sep 22 '24

This reads like a Max Boot article.

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u/Krunchfries Sep 22 '24

Gotta cull the youth bulge

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u/Big_Manufacturer9405 Sep 22 '24

Who the hell is ‘we’? Cuz it sure isn’t making the average American any safer or richer..

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u/Verucaschmaltzzz Sep 22 '24

The overlords, silly.

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u/sarim25 Sep 22 '24

I read a recent messed up message and it was a similar broken thing. It was an "escalation to de-escalate the situation."

Like going to war for peace or some similar bs thing. 

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u/MutatedLizard13 Sep 22 '24

It’s not just bad for the economy… it’s bad for international relations, the future, and just… how we view each other. We see our enemies as things, rather than humans, and it NEEDS to change.

Humans need to learn to share this world with each other, or I cannot stress this enough, we are DOOMED.

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u/SgtHedgehog Sep 22 '24

Did Senator Armstrong write this?

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u/MetaloraRising Sep 23 '24

All we're saying is... GIVE WAR A CHANCE

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u/elathan_i Sep 22 '24

The US is a deathmonger country

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u/Delta_Goodhand Sep 23 '24

..... who's "Us" in this scenario?

100k Palestinians....?

Nope

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u/NormanPlantagenet Sep 23 '24

Is there anything else left in America other than military industrial complex? Insurance and big pharma?

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u/TShara_Q Sep 22 '24

Oh, I believe they make (some of) us richer. But that's kind of a bad thing, because how much of that actually trickles down to the bottom 70% if society? Even if the gains were evenly distributed, I would obviously still be against it. Call me a bleeding-heart Leftie, but I'd actually rather we not kill people and not give them injuries and chronic health conditions that will follow them for life, even if it made all of us richer.

As for safer? WTF? Please explain to me how wars cause fewer humans to die than not having wars. I'll wait.

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u/crayawe Sep 22 '24

Yeah fuel the greed

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u/OccuWorld Sep 22 '24

Cui bono?

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u/Delicious_Gear_4652 Sep 22 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

omg this seems like satire

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u/meatshieldjim Sep 22 '24

It makes the survivors richer right?

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u/L_O_Pluto Sep 23 '24

Opinion wrong

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u/Mediocre-Post9279 Sep 23 '24

They don't make us richer, they make US richer

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u/expatronis Sep 24 '24

I am sure that's a great comfort to all the dead people.

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u/KubrickMoonlanding Sep 22 '24

Ww2 was obviously a bit of a tragedy for some, but on the upside it did give us computers and a peaceful Middle East. Fair trade, wouldn’t you say?

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u/Blurple694201 Sep 22 '24

Imperialist media.

A media apparatus that exists to manufacture consent for military operations abroad to impose their will on other countries. You can see it in how stories of similar scale don't get similar coverage

To better understand this, read "manufacturing consent" by Noam Chomsky, or listen to the audio book for free with a simple google search