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People want their answers to be simple. In this case, if you can say there’s a good side and a bad side in a conflict, you can pretend that verbally supporting the good side no matter what is good, moral praxis.

This is the military in a nutshell. It ostensibly needs to protect the nation, but civilian industries exist as a result, whose executives have generals in their pockets. If the industry no longer serves the needs of the military, then the military should stop using it; but that doesn’t reduce the plight of a worker who would become unemployed as a result. Who suffers from this tension? Every taxpayer who isn’t an executive or a general with a cushy retirement job, but especially workers and average servicemembers.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure they’re classified because we are responsible for whatever it is. At the very least, we are closely tracking whichever power is making it happen. I don’t think declassifying this stuff is a good idea.

Democrats argue that beating Trump and enacting progressive policies requires electing Democrats first.

They’re still arguing that? We’ve been waiting for the Dems to enact progressive policies for the past two years. It turns out that if you want progressive policies, you actually have to elect progressives.