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by mingus88 98 days ago
There is a straight line from Eisenhower’s farewell speech about the perils of the military industrial complex to where we are right now.

Read that speech. Read “War is a racket” by Smedly Butler.

Do you think it’s a good thing that Palantir execs (Shankar and Bob Mcgrew, now at openAI) have been made Lt Cols of the U.S. Army?

They aren’t just making guns or information systems. They’re running the show and profiting on it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/1255164460/1a-army-07-03-2025