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Let's start a global program for shifting intelligence funding to schools. Education is a better defense than mass surveillance.
by contingencies 6y ago
Let's start a global program for shifting intelligence funding to schools. Education is a better defense than mass surveillance.
- throw_this_one 6y agoYeah I’m sure when the West abdicates intelligence funding and increases education, the anti-west axis forming/formed will come in by the campfire and sing kumbaya with you.
- booboolayla 6y agoComments like the one you're replying to always make me think - is a popular democracy truly the way to go? If that truly is the case, then our education needs to become the polar opposite of what it is today, because today it is obviously churning out angry ignoramuses willing to criticize their own country into oblivion, as well as happily vote to undermine their own country's security.
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoA lot of the anti-West axis grievances were caused by the intelligence agencies. The Iranian passenger plane downed by bad US intelligence. The Iraq War started on bad intelligence. I'm sure there are others... Maybe don't abdicate intelligence. But since that government body has seen huge failures over the past decade doesn't it make sense to cut their budget significantly?
- tgv 6y agoNumber of people working for intelligence services in my country: around 2000. Number of people working in education: 342100. It won't make a dent.
- contingencies 6y agoWhat are the budgets?
- tgv 6y agoIntelligence: €150M - €250M (estimates are bit unclear) Education: € 30B
- contingencies 6y agoThat sounds intelligent: they must be well educated already!
- ArkVark 6y agoMass deportations are a simpler solution. Crime and welfare use are disproportionately linked to non-citizens from specific regions and countries.