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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by remarkEon on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:22PM (#19231603)
If liberalism surviving is defined as “western military hegemony” then I think there’s a problem with liberalism, but the military tools used to enforce it.
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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by oh_sigh on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:27PM (#19231633)
How should liberalism respond if 100 liberals can be silenced by 1 authoritarian with a machine gun, and the ratio of authoritarians to liberals is 1:99?
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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by remarkEon on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:18PM (#19235255)
I don't think liberalism has an answer to this question. It appears to me that as liberal democracies become more democratic the likelihood that an authoritarian can take power, from the left or right, increases. So it's somewhat of a paradox.
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