before it wages its first imperial war of conquest abroad in 1898, occupying Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines and strangling nascent independence movements within all three. Or perhaps drowning would be the better term, since the Philippines was where we first perfected the

art of water boarding

we’d later export to

pacify Iraq

100 years later.


at least now we know why the navy needed that seal research

And now we have an actual global empire to manage and expand.

An official habit, if you will.

you act like we only use our military for nefarious purposes though. I want some fair and balanced perspectives, like some positive drug stories. man has successful career with wife and two kids and a side habit. who doesn’t want to come home after a long day and shoot up a nice warm one?

There might be a reason those stories are uncommon to non-existent though right?

Wars of conquest, empires, have one goal:

consumption of value


reducing people to inputs in a system where the human gets cannibalized.