Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
by gbear605 on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:28PM
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The neat thing about nuclear weapons is that if you only care about self defense, you don’t need anything else.
Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
by jonnybgood on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:46PM
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Is a person’s way of life and economic prosperity also worth defending? If so, nuclear weapons are not sufficient. All another country needs to do is cut that person’s country off from the rest of the world. Bring it down from the inside. No invasion or war required.
Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
by ardy42 on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:16PM
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> The neat thing about nuclear weapons is that if you only care about self defense, you don’t need anything else.
Nuclear weapons have no proportionality, so it's bad to rely on them for defense. If you do rely on them, you're either going to start WWIII over a border skirmish, or your enemy is going to chip away at you because you won't.
U.S. prosperity is built on the U.S. military. From our acension to the world stage after WWII, to the spawning of the Internet through military R&D. The pointy end of America is an essential part of what makes your life so fat and comfortable. It’s what allows you to consume a vastly disproportionate share of global resources. To live a life where you can worry about finding dates in Tindr and finding the best avacodo toast place, instead of surviving in a hostile world.