How stupid is war?

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Really, just think about it.

In 2024 there is still fighting and killing all over the world. For what?

And much of it is religious conflict. How ****ing stupid is that?

Just a shame.

 

[Moral]

I think it is just rich and powerful people playing the most consequential sport at the expense of their citizens.

 

[Colonoscopy]

Stupid but entertaining.

Everything can be entertainment.

 

[Bonerfarts]

If you really think about it, it is kinda fun.

 

[JasonTAlexanderJR]

Very stupid. And even more stupid for us as taxpayers to be sending billions of dollars to countries engaged in a war for which we didn’t start. Meanwhile we have social programs here that are severely underfunded

 

[Moral]

If you really think about it, it is kinda fun.

Go hang out at a VA hospital.

 

[BrianNole777]

Very stupid.

It's middle age or old men sending young men to fight.

The old men should fight instead.

 

[DooBi]

The single dumbest part of humanity. Not to mention the greediest. If war didn't garner profit there would be no more war.

 

[seminole97]

The single dumbest part of humanity. Not to mention the greediest. If war didn't garner profit there would be no more war.

I agree with Smedley Butler.
The way to prevent it is to threaten conscription of capital before 18 year olds.

If war meant the confiscation of any fortunes over 1 billion dollars we’d drop our last bomb overseas yesterday.

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

The single dumbest part of humanity. Not to mention the greediest. If war didn't garner profit there would be no more war.

Religion says hold my beer

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

The old men should fight instead.

That’s what Ukraine is doing.

Ukraine’s average soldier is 43. How can they keep Putin at bay?

Some volunteers who signed up at the beginning of the war with Russia are mentally and physically exhausted, and there is a lack of younger fighters to replace them

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[Moral]

That’s what Ukraine is doing.

Ukraine’s average soldier is 43. How can they keep Putin at bay?

Some volunteers who signed up at the beginning of the war with Russia are mentally and physically exhausted, and there is a lack of younger fighters to replace them

www.thetimes.co.uk

Well that's a bit different. Ukraine wasn't the aggressor, and Russia is forcing a war of attrition onto them. They don't have much of an option at this point.

 

[MichaelKeller99]

I agree with Smedley Butler.
The way to prevent it is to threaten conscription of capital before 18 year olds.

If war meant the confiscation of any fortunes over 1 billion dollars we’d drop our last bomb overseas yesterday.

If our government had to raise income taxes every time we were engaged in war the sheep might revolt.

That’s where the Fed and their magic money printing machines come in so handy.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Well that's a bit different. Ukraine wasn't the aggressor, and Russia is forcing a war of attrition onto them. They don't have much of an option at this point.

Their conscription age was 27 until last week. They’ve deliberately skewed older.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...-lowering-draft-age-bid-boost-military-ranks/

 

[tarheelbybirth]

Really, just think about it.

In 2024 there is still fighting and killing all over the world. For what?

And much of it is religious conflict. How ****ing stupid is that?

Just a shame.

How stupid are the kids who go fight the wars the old men tell them to fight? If they ever put down their weapons and told those sons of bitches to fight their own wars, war would end.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

What is that history does again? Oh, it repeats itself, and we never seem to learn from it. ☹️

 

[DooBi]

I often lament what we could be as a society without war. We could cure disease. We could be living on Mars. We could raise the standard living for every person on the planet.

 

[THE_DEVIL]

 

[Hawki97]

 

[Hawki97]

I often lament what we could be as a society without war. We could cure disease. We could be living on Mars. We could raise the standard living for every person on the planet.

And then remove all the time fretting about god and we’d be living on (the planet formerly known as) Pluto by now.

 

[bagdropper]

Most all the people in the "war thread", I swear their brains are broken.

War sucks. As far as me sitting here on my keyboard, the last thing I believe I'd be doing is somehow turning what's going on halfway across the world (which is, of course, appalling) into some sort of message board genius shitshow.

Take a friggin' deep breath, people. Chill the F out or you're all going to stroke out face down on your keyboards.