cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53698743

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EDIT: Replaced cool flag with a phtoto from an old article. It’s getting difficult to find useful images that I am 100% sure aren’t AI gen.

  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
    6·
    22 hours ago

    Weapons, that is why. We got the good shit. And even what we don’t sell to them, we can sponsor other assholes to supplant their current leaders.

    That is not the only factor, but it’s a very big one.

    • mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      5 hours ago

      I’d say it’s almost the only factor that matters at this point. The US has lost a significant amount of their soft power, but at the end of the day the amount of money we dump into the military industrial complex buys us hard power.

      It’s disgusting and I hate it. 100% agree with the post. Most US people don’t respect our own copyright laws. I know mannnnny people that just stream online from random sites.

      • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        I haven’t paid for tv or movies, in, 15 years at least. Even then I pirated though, except prior to maybe 2006 I didn’t.