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Re: NixOS just dropped Anduril as a NixCon sponsor

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Post by boffinAudio » Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 8:07 AM UTC

Georgelemental wrote: post #16

boffinAudio wrote: post #6

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> In former eastern-bloc countries, such trivialities are easily ignored in the lust for the Western decadence Also because people there remember the horror of Soviet domination. I am ashamed of my country's (US) crimes too, but they don't make the alternatives on offer any better.

The world has a long, long way to go to catch up with the US' vast and heinous war crimes, crimes against humanity, and massive violations of human rights at scale.

Anyone who lived through the soviet era can see that the USA has factually become the thing it was resisting, all this time, during the cold war era.

War-profiteers such as Anduril are distasteful in that light, because they are producing weapons systems that are even MORE impune to public scrutiny.

Stealth capabilities are there to hide from your own people too.

Re: NixOS just dropped Anduril as a NixCon sponsor

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Post by busterarm » Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 5:30 PM UTC

boffinAudio wrote: post #110

busterarm wrote: post #29

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War happens when the other party things that they can defeat you without too great a cost. Developing weapons for your country is anti-war too.

Nonsense. Developing diplomacy for your nation is anti-war. But we know that diplomatic corps don't get even a pittance of the funding that the warrior hordes do ..

Diplomacy requires bargaining power. Carrots AND sticks.

You've got a very naive view of the world.

Re: NixOS just dropped Anduril as a NixCon sponsor

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Post by boffinAudio » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 8:42 AM UTC

busterarm wrote: post #112

boffinAudio wrote: post #110

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Nonsense. Developing diplomacy for your nation is anti-war. But we know that diplomatic corps don't get even a pittance of the funding that the warrior hordes do ..

Diplomacy requires bargaining power. Carrots AND sticks. You've got a very naive view of the world.

I think it is you who has a naive view of the world because at the moment in US diplomacy, there are no carrots, there are only sticks and the world is definitely sick and tired of that shit.

Re: NixOS just dropped Anduril as a NixCon sponsor

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Post by busterarm » Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 10:13 PM UTC

boffinAudio wrote: post #113

busterarm wrote: post #112

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Diplomacy requires bargaining power. Carrots AND sticks. You've got a very naive view of the world.

I think it is you who has a naive view of the world because at the moment in US diplomacy, there are no carrots, there are only sticks and the world is definitely sick and tired of that shit.

You are aware that global trade only exists as it is now for the last 70 years due to the US Navy protecting shipping routes and basically for free, right?

If you think there are "no carrots" offered by the US, you're a silly person living in a fantasy world. Clearly there are carrots because the US has lots of positive diplomatic relationships with a pretty large percentage of the world's countries.

We don't do this through having a boot on everyone's neck. We don't live in some fantasy story where the US is "The Great Evil".