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Ashe Dryden (ashedryden@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 07:50:57 JST Ashe Dryden
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Just rabbit-holing down the future we could have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech
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1. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
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  Chance for Peace speech
  
  The Chance for Peace speech, also known as the Cross of Iron speech, was an address given by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16, 1953, shortly after the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Speaking only three months into his presidency, Eisenhower likened arms spending to stealing from the people, and evoked William Jennings Bryan in describing "humanity hanging from a cross of iron." Although Eisenhower, a former military man, spoke against increased military spending, the Cold War deepened during his administration and political pressures for increased military spending mounted. By the time he left office in 1961, he felt it necessary to warn of the military-industrial complex in his final address. Background Eisenhower took office in January 1953, with the Korean War in a stalemate. Three and a half years prior, the Soviet Union had successfully detonated the atomic bomb named RDS-1, and appeared to reach approximate military parity with the United States. Political pressures for a more aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union mounted, and calls for increased military spending did as well. Stalin's demise on March...
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  Ashe Dryden (ashedryden@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 07:50:58 JST Ashe Dryden
  
  The US could be investing in better social programs, updating failing infrastructure, and climate change mitigation efforts, but instead we get to throw more money in the permanent war economy pit.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Keynesianism#Permanent_war_economy
  
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  Bill repeated this.

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