The alternative was to launch a half-baked WW3 with no real changes and then eventually decide to rebrand the whole thing to gain some popularity and just drop the 3.
Wars are subscription based now. Instead of one massive and enormously expensive short-term conflict, you get a decades-long enormously expensive conflict.
AKA, the forever war, from 1984, where war is waged specifically to waste and destroy the product of economies, to keep the proles poor, and thus unable to rise up against their oligarchical masters.
People are rising up in other poorer countries, but I dont know if it has any effect. Massive demonstrations and many people killed, but is change happening?
I dont know. Human societies are just dumb and not built for human happiness. Its just a big tax and profit game people run through for their entire lives. Then they get old and die. Thanks for your effort. Lol.
It's important to understand that change happens when we force change to happen, not when we implore the people who have already decided not to make change to reconsider. Demonstrations are great to raise awareness of the issue, but when it comes to actually changing anything, they're pretty crap. At best they can scare someone into making change if they think the demonstrators might get violent if they don't, like how the black panthers scared politicians into that very belief during the civil rights movement.
The issue now is that nobody believes we'll actually get violent, and for good reason. Generations have been raised on the idea that "violence is never the answer." Basically our only option to really make change is to use our numbers against them, but that means that some people are going to need to overcome their conditioning and volunteer to be the first to make the choice to rise up, likely to their own demise. If we can't do that, we're screwed, so the question is how bad does it need to be for it to happen, and will it be too late by then?
When war is baseline, and peace requires an ultimate seasonpass to enable purchasing it as pay per view. Luckily getting access to the unaffordable housing dlc only requires purchasing the "falsely advertised tertiary education with no actual marketable skillset"...
That all started with the rebranding of war as a conflict, i.e Korea. It worked, so we've been in conflicts ever since. No danger of world wars anymore.
It’s basically the geopolitical version of releasing a game in alpha, getting review-bombed, then delisting it and relaunching six months later under a new title with 80% of the same assets and a slightly different trailer voiceover.
What we forgot is that peace is the subscription model. The institutions supporting it require constant attention and care. Once you take them for granted and decide they’re not needed, that’s when the default, war, comes back.
81 Comments
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world · 100 pts · 139d
Wars are subscription based now. Instead of one massive and enormously expensive short-term conflict, you get a decades-long enormously expensive conflict.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 37 pts · 139d
Uh...How do I cancel? Tired of paying for this, don't want it, never wanted it.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 139d
Vote out the lobby groups pushing American politicians into war.
Oh wait, you can't. Your democracy sucks ha ha
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 139d
Just make them illegal.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 139d
Why would the lawmakers make a law against themselves making a lot of money
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 139d
Referendums. Or riots. You know, whatever people are feeling.
huppakee@piefed.social · 5 pts · 139d
What the people are feeling:
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 139d
The people who didn't roit after finding out the president and his billionaire friends have been raping and eating their children would riot for this?
Sabata11792@ani.social · 2 pts · 138d
We have to lobby Israel so they bribe our politicians to do it.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 139d
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bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 139d
With the cancel link obfuscated by reams of propaganda
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
The unsubscribe button is just a placebo.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 139d
unsubscribe! unsubscribe!
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 139d
If you try to unsubscribe you’re a traitor, and probably antisemitic…somehow!
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
You may only cancel once your banking account is empty and so is all the other ones.
crank0271@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
No worries - your kids can pay for it with Afterpay
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 138d
I suppose the Cold War was arguably one of these too.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 58 pts · 139d
AKA, the forever war, from 1984, where war is waged specifically to waste and destroy the product of economies, to keep the proles poor, and thus unable to rise up against their oligarchical masters.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 139d
We’ve always been at war with Iran.
Thorry@feddit.org · 13 pts · 139d
They've been an imminent threat for decades now!
1984@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 139d
People are rising up in other poorer countries, but I dont know if it has any effect. Massive demonstrations and many people killed, but is change happening?
I dont know. Human societies are just dumb and not built for human happiness. Its just a big tax and profit game people run through for their entire lives. Then they get old and die. Thanks for your effort. Lol.
Signtist@bookwyr.me · 7 pts · 138d
It's important to understand that change happens when we force change to happen, not when we implore the people who have already decided not to make change to reconsider. Demonstrations are great to raise awareness of the issue, but when it comes to actually changing anything, they're pretty crap. At best they can scare someone into making change if they think the demonstrators might get violent if they don't, like how the black panthers scared politicians into that very belief during the civil rights movement.
The issue now is that nobody believes we'll actually get violent, and for good reason. Generations have been raised on the idea that "violence is never the answer." Basically our only option to really make change is to use our numbers against them, but that means that some people are going to need to overcome their conditioning and volunteer to be the first to make the choice to rise up, likely to their own demise. If we can't do that, we're screwed, so the question is how bad does it need to be for it to happen, and will it be too late by then?
Alphonsus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
Nice
mech@feddit.org · 41 pts · 139d
WW365
bridgeburner@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 139d
WWCopilot
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 139d
Upgrade to premium to receive rations
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 139d
WWX brought to you by Charleston Chews
DannyMac@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 139d
Valve: WW Alyx
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 139d
When war is baseline, and peace requires an ultimate seasonpass to enable purchasing it as pay per view. Luckily getting access to the unaffordable housing dlc only requires purchasing the "falsely advertised tertiary education with no actual marketable skillset"...
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 32 pts · 139d
We've moved from waterfall through to an agile continuous-delivery world war paradigm.
lividweasel@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 139d
Oh god, are we sprinting toward the downfall of civilization?
foofiepie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d
Perhaps. We’ll know when the authorities feel they Kanban books.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 139d
Cold War II, the Fascist Boogaloo and the Enemy Within.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 139d
With agentic integration.
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 139d
WW Pro XL ™
KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 139d
Platinum Edition
Tronn4@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 139d
Here comes the Cuba DLC
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 9 pts · 139d
* Cuba Season
Agent641@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 139d
World War 365
InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 138d
Pretty sure they renamed it to Copilot
trashboat@piefed.social · 13 pts · 139d
They number world wars by year now. Welcome to WW2026
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d
They always make em trilogies too
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 139d
I knew Valve was behind WW1 and WW2...
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 139d
WW s09e21The One With The Middle East (Part 7)
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 139d
That's actually really convenient for managing shareholder value expectations.
ApeNo1@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 139d
Continuous Invasions / Continuous Deployments model.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 139d
It’s been that way since the1990s, no?
Cold war is out, perpetual war is in.
Pretty sure this is the plot of Metal Gear Solid.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 139d
That all started with the rebranding of war as a conflict, i.e Korea. It worked, so we've been in conflicts ever since. No danger of world wars anymore.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 139d
“Windows 10 will be the last Windows you need”
dumbass@piefed.social · 5 pts · 139d
Subscribe to the World War Battle Pass and revive your free military skin.
anitarobs@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 138d
It’s basically the geopolitical version of releasing a game in alpha, getting review-bombed, then delisting it and relaunching six months later under a new title with 80% of the same assets and a slightly different trailer voiceover.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 139d
And the dlc's have increased in price dramatically lately.
tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 4 pts · 139d
What we forgot is that peace is the subscription model. The institutions supporting it require constant attention and care. Once you take them for granted and decide they’re not needed, that’s when the default, war, comes back.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 139d
A rolling distro
Una@europe.pub · 4 pts · 139d
World war Tokyo drift when?
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
I guess the world is like Valve, no Half-Life 3, Portal 3, Left 4 Dead 3, World War 3, nothing.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 6 pts · 139d
But we do get spin offs. World War Epstein instead of Half Life Alyx
huppakee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 139d
Also Splinter Cell: Terminating Jeffrey and Splinter Cell: Seal the Files
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 139d
L4D3 is called Back 4 Blood. 🤷♂️
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
Paid tier with ads.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 139d
World War Vibe
monkeyman76@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 139d
DLC heavy breathing intensifies
zewm@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
World War Tres. This way he can claim the T stands for Trump.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
WWD (dumb or Donald)
shawn@thagoat.org · 2 pts · 139d
World War Drumpf
jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 138d
It's one thing I'd be fine sticking Trump's name on.
All the dead in this war, military and civilian, American, Iranian and Qatari, are blood on Donald's hands
anitarobs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
You don't think that's funny, do you?
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
I'm buying the battlepass (going shopping at a military surplus store)
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
War as a Service.
I wonder when they're going to drop in loot boxes.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 139d
World War Survive
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 2 pts · 138d
Just let Valve develop it
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 138d
Great, now we don't even own the war, but we can wear a variety of silly hats!
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 139d
You just dont announce it.
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 139d
Time for the season of war.
What's your name? (What's your name?)
Who's your daddy? (Who's your daddy?)
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d
We’re one ME 1.3
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 139d
GABEN FOR PRESIDENT OF EARTH
Doomsider@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 139d
Hey look, a new creative way to deny we are in WWIII!
YaGirlAutumn@leminal.space · 2 pts · 139d
nah like fallout we will just call it The Great War
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
Lol, fair enough.
I hope we are around to see the end of it I guess.
YaGirlAutumn@leminal.space · 1 pts · 139d
I hope so too