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Comment by alexashka

15 hours ago

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Is the implication here that we should take the moral high ground and let our adversaries murder us first?

  • It's quite strange what your adversaries become them after you travel to other side of the planet and kill, maim and destroy them.

  • Is Canada an adversary of America? Or Greenland?

    What position should Canadians or the people of Greenland take with regards to the people in the US military who are currently working to annex and invade their countries?

    What position should the US military take with regards to the people in those countries who are currently working to resist those efforts to annex and invade their countries their homelands?

    Do you consider Canadian and Icelandic civilians your adversary? If so, how did that come to be?

  • Well that would be fine if it was defence. But it's now the department of war, led by a person who has attacked two countries this year alone.

    • I'm against the U.S.'s broken leadership as much as any sensible person. But even in normal times with sane leadership, national defense is often a matter of "kill or be killed." This is certainly an uncomfortable truth, but that's the way of the world.

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  • I mean it's not like we know those "adversaries" ever wanted to murder us. For example, the US has a long record of assassinating labor leaders in South America to protect our Banana Republics on behalf of Chiquita. I think it's absolutely fair to bring in skepticism towards the secrets our military keeps from us

Ah. Cool story bro. Meanwhile private equity doctors let their private corp owners kill people over insurance denials. But complain only when their malpractice copay rises.

Tech workers for Silicon Valley daily enable and positively contribute to the pervasive surveillance and exploitation of the majority of the world. To the point the poors cant even open the app or walk into the store without an algorithm raises prices to the mathematical max this person can afford. But they only complain when free bananas are removed from the snacks.