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So this is where my tax dollars are spent. Building “killer robot dogs”. Smh. It’s shit like this that make you think twice about paying taxes; and sympathize
by xyst 2y ago
So this is where my tax dollars are spent. Building “killer robot dogs”. Smh.
It’s shit like this that make you think twice about paying taxes; and sympathize with “tax dodgers”.
The waste in government isn’t in Medicare, Social Security. It’s in the military industrial complex.
- polski-g 2y agoWould you prefer to pay for a lifetime of disability payments to returning veterans instead?
- logicchains 2y agoThere wouldn't be any disabled veterans if there wasn't a military industrial complex pushing for war all over the globe. The last time America fought a defensive war was WW2, almost a century ago, and if there was no military industrial complex it wouldn't have fought any wars since then.
- polski-g 2y agoThere were civilian ships being sunk off the coast of Yemen, luckily America has the force projection capable of putting a stop to that. Russia would have taken all of Ukraine if it wasn't for American force projection.
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoDo you understand that other countries exist?
- stavrianos 2y agothis is a _very_ false dichotomy
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoIt doesn't seem so. I believe they're pointing out that our current best alternative to a robot dog with a gun is a human with a gun. Robot dog gets shot and is decommissioned; human gets shot and relies on disability payments for a few decades.
- potta_coffee 2y agoWho do you think the robots are killing? There are countless videos of drones blowing up Ukranian and Russian soldiers. Drones are being used to kill humans.
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoIf you don't kill the russians, they will kill the Ukrainians. How do you solve that?
- renewiltord 2y agoCopenhagen Interpretation of Ethics. I'm innocent of anything I ignore. Inaction absolves me of all moral failure.
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoIronically, Copenhagen has [fortunately] shown a relatively strong level of support for Ukraine. I wasn’t previously familiar with the Kopenhagener Geist but it was an interesting cursory read. Thank you.
- potta_coffee 2y agoYour ideological position on should win a war is irrelevant. We're discussing the ethics of using automation to kill humans.
- dogman144 2y agoThink those returning vets would like the payments to start in the first place, for your false equivalence to be valid. And I can do that sort of logic as well - would you like to deal with the social unrest from about the only effective mass 18-23 y/o jobs and college program still around going away?
- ikekkdcjkfke 2y agoA million dollar robot dog would be blown up by a toy drone in a minute
- SV_BubbleTime 2y ago> It’s in the military industrial complex. I remember when people used to complain about that. Now those same people are jumping up and down for billions “for Ukraine”, not knowing they’re the same thing.
- yakshaving_jgt 2y ago> “for Ukraine” I'm curious, why did you put quotation marks around this? Who are you quoting?
- kelipso 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoThat was my suspicion, but I at least wanted to hear it from the horse’s mouth, and I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt first.
- kelipso 2y agoLol, maybe go offline for a bit because you are taking your online self a bit too seriously.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoRight? I’m not going to try and explain that Ukraine funding is actually just a US domestic economic stimulus and kickback scam incentive because if they can’t see it, they aren’t going to listen to me about it - But lol, these guys are so defensive and pseudo intellectual about it.
- yakshaving_jgt 2y ago