Mike GravelVerified account

If you get into the debates, you should have to explain what the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. @McKinsey did to cause the financial crisis. This should be good.https://twitter.com/mikegravel/status/1126955068350189571?s=21 …

you know you're on the right side of history when you're defending McKinsey & Co

You know you're being disingenuous when you take one guy's job doing grocery price consulting and pin all the global workings of a multinational consulting firm on him.

Not going to get into all of this, but Pete literally says we need to put a stop to endless wars all the time, I don’t know where you got the idea he was pro war...

He goes into more detail in this interview and says “we should end the war” with the caveat that we will not leave til our “mission” is complete. The interviewer even says that means we would be there indefinitely. That’s pro-war in sheep’s clothing.https://twitter.com/mikeprysner/status/1110374428443992064?s=21 …

Good point, but his definition of mission complete is different than most. He says that we can’t turn Afghan into a democracy and we just need some kind of stability. That’s not pro-war, just living in reality. We can’t become isolationists when our past leaders have destabilized

I strongly disagree with that take. He says in the last few seconds that we must stay in Afghanistan til we can prevent terrorist attacks on the US or we will be in “Groundhog Day.” He says we need to think about “what we’re willing to do” to achieve that. That is... pro-war.

Define pro—war for me. To me, it means wanting to be in war, which Pete does not. We may have different definitions of pro-war and that’s fine, but I don’t think Pete wants to actively seek out engagements to be involved in.

You're being awfully pedantic about Pete's very bad idea of "engagement" in the region. Suffice it to say, Pete is not Anti-war. It seems you want to get down to semantics on the term pro-war, but Pete obviously is not anti-war

I really don't think Pete wants to be involved in war, in fact, in the video he says he does not want to be in Afghan. He sees it more as a necessity, it's fine if we disagree though

Cipher.

spelling it in the British manner adds colour to the letter

Fair enough. Git 'im, teens!

Mike’s a regular HP Lovecraft, inne

if you join and serve a limited amount of time in the military only for the calculated and express purpose of filling out your strategically crafted political resume, does it really count

the postmodern military-industrial complex: no actual soldiers, just presidents in training