(08-03-2022, 11:04 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(08-03-2022, 09:49 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Holding up stacks of paper and calling them "documents" was a bit over the top, too.  Everything he had in his hand was publicly available financial statements that can be printed straight off the internet.  Then he goes "Oh, my God, I've discovered defense industries make money producing weapons!"  Well, duh.  And CEOs have bonuses tied to profits.  Yep.  And sometimes, believe it or not, the government gets cheated.  Yep.

The fact that our industries make money when we fight a war is one of the reasons we're so damn good at it.

It's just not that they make money... it's how they exploit our system to profit. That was not a thorough video, but, let's be honest, if I put a 2 hour, in depth video, how many of you would even watch it? I posted something I thought was short enough to start a discussion about something we should be talking about more regularly. But, whatever... let's keep going on about whichever poster annoys you.

Erik Prince selling chartered seats out of a collapsing war zone for 6 grand is not something I'm upset about. "He's exploiting them" is nonsense, he's using his resources to provide a service, and a very risky service at that. When the video starts with that kind of trivial stuff it makes it hard to think the other 30 minutes is worth anything, especially with the host's annoying mannerisms and presentation.

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