• index@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    You don’t need military budget to defend yourself. Governments need military budget to gain power and attack others.

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      15 days ago

      If your country has zero weapons and my country has some weapons, what’s your plan for stopping your country becoming an extension of mine, and your culture, language and history becoming lost forever?

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      13 days ago

      Sorry: I’d mistaken you for a person using considered-reasoning.

      Ideology doesn’t reason.

      Its symbols are comforting substitutes for reason, & they’re enough, for it, right?

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