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Cut and paste for your troops

By ~LS~ On November 11, 2010 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Obama, Politics, Slacktivism, War

On this Veteran’s Day, stop fake support of your troops.

Today is Veteran’s Day, a day that spawns a number of cut and paste micro-memes on Facebook. After last month’s screed on pinkwashing, I feel compelled to repeat my rant pre-emptively as the first posts start to trickle in.

People see the “Support our Troops Cut and Paste” and they dutifully follow directions without taking a moment to honor the sentiment, and without admitting that they’ve accomplished absolutely nothing meaningful in any way.

I find flag waving “support your veteran” statuses on Facebook amusing. They’re pointless. I might as well cut and paste a status from a status generator app (they do exist) – that’s about how interesting and meaningful those memes are.

Last year when this sort of thing went around, a lot of posts falsely claimed that Obama was cutting Veterans’ benefits, giving more money to welfare, [...]

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More about how vets are treated

By ~LS~ On July 10, 2008 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, War

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The Shitty Way We Treat Our Vets

By ~LS~ On July 4, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, War

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From Code Pink

By ~LS~ On May 24, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Hillary, Politics, War

From Code Pink’s talking points about dogging Hillary re: the war in Iraq:

Question: Are you doing this because she’s a woman? Are you holding her to a higher standard because she’s a woman? As women, are you going after her because she’s a woman?

Answer: No. No. No. Our campaign has nothing to do with the fact that she is a woman. It is about her enormous power and influence within the Democratic Party. It is about her hawk-like record. We don’t want to end up with another Lyndon Johnson—of whatever gender. Pressuring Hillary to change her stance on the war—and not just her RHETORIC ON THE WAR, but her ACTIONS—is our best hope to have an influence on the policies that will decide how and when that war is ended.

I never really thought of her as another Lyndon Johnson, but….that’s really scary.

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Follow the dollar – War Profiteering

By ~LS~ On April 19, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Capitalism and tagged Tagged With: Hillary, Obama, Politics, War

Counterpunch has an article today on how much money Cheney and other war profiteers have made off the Iraq war. It’s so appalling; I can’t believe that this sort of thing doesn’t make headlines in the mainstream news. For instance,

In addition, Cheney’s son-in-law, Philip Perry, Cummings says, was appointed to serve as general counsel to the Department of Homeland Security, and he had been a registered lobbyist for Lockheed who had worked for a law firm representing Lockheed with the Department of Homeland Security.

According to Cummings, less than a month after 9/11, in October of 2001, the Pentagon announced a $20 billion contract for Lockheed for the development of the Joint Strike Fighter, called the F-35. At the time, Edward Aldridge was Undersecretary of Defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics, which was responsible for the approval of the contract. Aldridge left his government post in 2003, and [...]

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Iraq Veterans Against the War

By ~LS~ On November 10, 2006 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, War

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