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originally posted by: fringeofthefringe
Just wanted to clarify for you daskakik, the MIC is not the military. The MIC -military industrial complex- is a loosely used term which refers to the profiteers, suppliers and manufacturers of military equipment and munitions.
The military is not the MIC.
Besides the OG CT crowd warned of the military as well as the MIC. When before Q did you hear marshall law or the military acting on US soil being a good thing?
originally posted by: fringeofthefringe
Bisides, that's the kind of word someone uses when they are admitting their previous statement was wrong or irrelevant. You are conflating, the MIC is bad and our military is honorable but sometimes lead by bad people.
Sometimes you must parse, MIC is not the equivalent to the US Military no matter how many times you say it.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: fringeofthefringe
Bisides, that's the kind of word someone uses when they are admitting their previous statement was wrong or irrelevant. You are conflating, the MIC is bad and our military is honorable but sometimes lead by bad people.
Sometimes you must parse, MIC is not the equivalent to the US Military no matter how many times you say it.
No, military-industrial complex is the relationship of a country's military and their suppliers, the military is part of that relationship.
The post you replied to also mentioned martial law, so it wasn't just pointing out the mistrust of the MIC but also military action, which Q supported because they knew their target audience.
The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it
Like Marriam-Webster: "an informal alliance of the military and related government departments with defense industries that is held to influence government policy"
One of the most famous critiques of the defense industry to emerge during the interwar period, Merchants of Death by H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen, disputed the idea that arms manufacturers bore responsibility for starting the war. “The arms industry did not create the war system,” they wrote. “On the contrary, the war system created the arms industry.” They traced the origins of war to “the prevailing temper of peoples toward nationalism, militarism, and war” and “the civilization which forms this temper.”
President Donald Trump’s recent warning about the influence of the defense industry has sparked comparisons to Dwight Eisenhower’s assertion that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” When Eisenhower spoke those words in his 1961 farewell address, he believed that the massive growth of America’s peacetime armed forces had given them and the defense industry enough power that they could “endanger our liberties or democratic processes.”
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: fringeofthefringe
From your starting point
President Donald Trump’s recent warning about the influence of the defense industry has sparked comparisons to Dwight Eisenhower’s assertion that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” When Eisenhower spoke those words in his 1961 farewell address, he believed that the massive growth of America’s peacetime armed forces had given them and the defense industry enough power that they could “endanger our liberties or democratic processes.”
Doesn't that bolded part mean military?