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25 Aug, 5 tweets, 1 min read
it was really funny watching these war-hungry dumbasses in media treating "forever war" like some simultaneously offensive and also undefinable term
shades of "neoliberal"
seeing a lot of people on here using the f*rever w*r slur...
the sustained media freakout actually surprised me and i'm wondering if they were always this weepy about the sad troop in their mind moping about the sunk costs of american empire? because this has been going on for half my life and i was too young to pay attention before.
or are they really just living in some delusion that, quality of this particular exit plan aside, there was some end to this that would feel like victory to them?

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