The US is the most benign empire one could wish for. History makes that plain, and just peeking over the fence at contender’s tendencies and track record further reinforces that. Easy moral justification backed by actual moral justification.

Oooh my cracker detector done blew up reading that one. Military industrial techbro scum deserve the collapse that's hurtling towards them, and there will be no empathy in me for them when it hits. Only ugly, contemptuous gut-laughter.

without a strong American military to stand up to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, you'd be speaking Russian right now.

As a liberal raised during the backlash to the Iraq War, my attitude towards the Military Industrial Complex has really changed in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s seemingly inevitable invasion of Taiwan. Add in the possibility that the US could be dragged into new wars in the Middle East and even possibly South America, and I really don’t think we have the luxury to say “weapons bad, let’s not build any”.

In my 3 years of posting on hexbear I have never once seriously called someone a fed but this is the most thing I have ever seen

China’s seemingly inevitable invasion of Taiwan.

Fuck these ignorant liberal imperialists.

yeah biden's really acting like he's being dragged into war against his will. totally.

just like bush, that fucking peacenik. so unwilling.

it's always funny how tech bros will be very opinionated about geopolitics (or anything really), used to being pampered I guess so they think their are like some rare nectar to be poured into their community with delight

if can convince them AI driven paperclip production is mankind's biggest threat then pushing atlanticist imperialism apologia shouldn't be hard either

It's childish to be anti military - it shows you do not understand the interconnectedness of our society - good and bad.

It's childish and shows a lack of understanding says the person who thinks the only positions on the military are 'it's good' and 'it's bad' while only recognising one of those.

It's disingenuous to ignore the effect the aggression of the cold war and its aftermath had on the current Russian situation.

Response is a rambling screed that addresses none of what it's replying to and questions their grasp on reality.

Add in the possibility that the US could be dragged into new wars in the Middle East

"Dragged in". "Dragged into" new wars in the Middle East. By whom and how? If America didn't want to fight wars in the Middle East it could simply... not.

But one of the best ways to prevent China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc from saying “might make right, let’s take this land

Please name the wars in the last 30 years that China, Iran, or Venezuela have fought to take additional land.

The US is the most benign empire one could wish for. History makes that plain

I don't even have to address this one. Just crackpot unreality shit.

Without a strong military in the past we would certainly not be here today and without a strong military now, who knows what other nation might decide to attack our sovereignty

Has the US even had a credible threat to its sovereignty since it's formation? I genuinely cannot think of a war the US was in where it wasn't the aggressor, barring maybe the World Wars but neither one posed a threat to sovereignty

orange site is by far my favorite place to agitate. You'd be surprised how well you can disrupt a conversation by providing a well placed "but that's not true at all".

I sometimes really wonder if Amerikkkans would actually do anything if the military launched a literal coup

I guess none of these bootsuckers would

well there goes absolutely any interest i had in tinkering with llm's

They think of themselves as educated but I've heard the argument made by actual teenagers that the US needs a strong military or North Korea, China, or Russia will attack it.

Am I supposed to know what an "orange site" is?

Misread as Orange site getting dismantled for bootlicking

As long as you steer clear of anything vaguely political and don't post much, Hacker News isn't that bad.

orange man bad

Love the emoji. Let's do it