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Re:Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence for Releasing Dron... by IfOnlyYouKnew on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:28PM (#28015012)
It's perfectly possible to improve, say, environmental protection without any drone programs. Most of Europe does so, for example.

So it's just mindless cynicism to argue "more government" / "no less government" / blablabla.

The specific American infatuation with anything that kills is, well, specific. Using all that wasteful killing/incarcerating/surveilling as an argument not against the Military-Industrial-Complex but, yet again, to diminish policies that might actually help people, is part and parcel of exactly the approach that ends with dead civilians domestically and abroad.

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Re:Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence for Releasing Dron... by ransom1538 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:22AM (#28015276)
"The specific American infatuation with anything that kills is, well, specific. Using all that wasteful killing/incarcerating/surveilling"

America is militarized due to 20th century European "killing/incarcerating/surveilling." Europe perfected these methods.

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