• holo@lemmy.wtf
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    5 hours ago

    …neither of those things were wars, and both of those campaigns were successful by any possible measure.

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      5 hours ago

      The war on drugs is not a war, the war on terror is not a war. And both of those “campaigns” involved repression of concepts.

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        You sure they’re not wars? The several million dead injured, and enslaved non whites targeted in said wars probably disagree.