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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by memory_grep on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:38PM (#19230228)
There is a huge difference, but that doesn't mean this project is Ok. Supporting war is supporting war. The budget and size of the US military are so far beyond what is needed for practical defense. If we want our military's actions to be humane, we should drastically cut their budget and stop sending soldiers to kill people in other countries.
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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by dang on Sunday February 24, 2019 @02:30AM (#19237571)
Please keep national and political flamewar off HN. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by stale2002 on Saturday February 23, 2019 @12:43AM (#19231897)
I really don't care what Russia or china thinks.

The only thing I care about is that we stop wasting trillions of dollars for the purpose of killing brown people.

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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by gbear605 on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:35PM (#19230987)
Russia and China don’t care about US military spending when they’re considering genocide. For example, see the Uyghur muslim population in China, which is being genocided right now.
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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by discordance on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:18PM (#19231588)
Got any data points to back up that claim of genocide?

Xinjiang is definitely under siege, with millions of people being placed in internment camps [1]. China's actions to date may be seen as a precursor to genocide, but that has not occurred yet.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/...million-uighurs.../2aa871d....

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