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Funny how the supposed progressive and tolerant won't contribute to the defense of the society that allows them to be progressive and tolerant.

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Our military spending is anything but defensive. Overtly agressive and offensive? Yes. Active in most parts of the world yes. Defending our borders? Not really. I wonder how people here would feel about working on anti-missile systems. Probably much less conflicted.

There are many places one can be tolerant without having to contribute to the US government.

> There are many places one can be tolerant without having to contribute to the US government.

But if you don't contribute, you could weaken the US government to the point where it can't resist an unambiguously intolerant foe. There are governments out there that are technologically sophisticated and much worse on human rights than the US.

There's that pretty old saying about people who do not want to feed their own army ending up feeding a foreign army. It's actually quite accurate.

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