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Re:Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work with the Pentagon by eli_gottlieb on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:27PM (#16879229)
One would think that maintaining liberal, Enlightenment values would require electing people who actually support those values.
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Re:Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work with the Pentagon by darawk on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:03PM (#16879597)
Sure. But everything in the real world is about tradeoffs. It's not "is everything perfect" its "what are our alternatives?" and our alternatives are Russia and China. Which represent a substantial decline in enlightenment values.
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