2013-11-13

There's always something around to take advantage of someone else's misfortune.

http://warisacrime.org/content/lets-take-advantage-suffering-filipinos

And it's usually stupidity driven by surprise - a large corporation. And seriously, wow! The people they hire at USA Today are fucking maroons! Of course they exist and have jobs because there are even bigger maroons out there who'll buy their paper (killing trees) and actually buy into the shit they imprint on it.

I like how author (a thinking human being mind you) doesn't in the link doesn't pull punches however -

"When it comes to war, however, just propose to end it, and 4 out of 5 dentists, or doctors, or teachers, or gardeners, or anybody else in the United States will say "What about the next Hitler?"  Well, what about the dozens of misidentified next-Hitlers of the past 70 years?  What about the possibility that within our own minds we're dressing up war as disaster relief?  Isn't it just possible that after generations of clearly aggressive, destructive, and criminal wars we describe militarism as a response to the second-coming of Hitler because the truth wouldn't sound as nice?"

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