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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by ionised on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:38PM (#16766454)
Predatory sign-up practices in low-income neighbourhoods, and a systemic and relentless propaganda campaign starting in nursery school that instils jingoist rhetoric and military worship.
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by supertrope on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:56PM (#16768341)
To play devil's advocate, we (USA) have a volunteer military. Even if you think it's a "poverty draft" driven by structural unemployment and dearth of opportunities in left behind cities and rural areas it's still not conscription.

How should the military fill its ranks? Would you rather have a lottery?

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