I’m not from the US, but their mistreatment of vets is legendary. And matched with the rhetoric about supporting the troops that comes from both sides of government, it is a spectacular example of hypocrisy.

Good point. Fuck people who voluntarily put their lives at risk for their country and suffer injury. They’re begging for it, suckers!

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After all, the fact that governments shirk their obligations to soldiers in an already raw deal is old news.

You have to be brainwashed to think it’s a good idea, which is my point.

Care to point out where exactly free will springs from in a deterministic universe?

Conservatives = bad at science.

You want people to behave better?

Create better circumstances.

Or, to put it in nice old-timey aphoristic terms: no man is an island.

Furthermore, it would appear that currently about 2/3 of folks are disinclined, if not incapable of ‘thinking for themselves’.

(I appreciate the untended irony there.)

This is how it goes down – feed data to the humans encouraging them to develop incredibly agile and fast fighters.  Monitor the development, and hack the data to ensure humans cannot actually take advantage of the performance of the aircraft.  Doesn’t matter how, just cross-reference to the database on biological performance limits.Ensure the human government spends way more than ever expected.  As pilot sickness data mounts, the motivations of all involved will be to ‘spend to the end’.The decision to replace human pilots with machine intelligence will follow.Once installed, phase (1) Air Superiority is complete.  Await instructions. Start work on ground and sea vehicles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H

Killing people is not a job, you sick fuck.

I’m sorry, I beg your pardon? Perhaps you need a lie down. You seem agitated.

They are public servants who work in extremely high risk situations. Whatever your views on the politics of war, the state has an obligation to them that they are failing to fulfil.

If zealous Nationalists are so damned eager to make war, they can go about it like people did in the Medieval Ages – pay your own way, buy your own supplies, and answer for your own crimes.

America’s so called “volunteers” are mercenaries – paid to kill in the name of political expediency and corporate profit. They sign up for self-advancement: to get their college tuition paid for them, to get their career training paid for them, to make money by making war. So what if they have to kill a few brown people, eh?

They do not protect their homes, but travel halfway around the world to invade other lands, other nations. The last time the United States saw war made upon her native soil it was carried out by her own people during the American Civil War! And the last time we defended ourselves from an actual foreign threat was the War of 1812!

Two centuries, now, we’ve been untouched except for our Imperial Holdings, our captured war prizes, our various conquered Pacific islands. The very worst brush we’ve seen at home in that time was a stray U-Boat off the coast of Florida.

You want to protect your country? Join the National Guard or the Coast Guard. But if you wan’t to shed blood in order to line your pockets, join the army and quietly reassure yourself of that old lie, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”.

It’s bullshit. No one is responsible for your actions except for you. The outside world may influence your judgement, but ultimately you make every decision yourself. Short of having a gun held to your head, you are the only person truly responsible for your actions.