Based on those numbers I’d be surprised to not “find a single one who would be offended if their employer partnered with the military”.

Not only does that not even come close to aligning with the original claim, as barbazoo points out, but there is also a difference between having a "positive view of the military" and wanting to partner with them at work.

February 1, 2024

There have been some salient events that may have altered that perspective in the intervening 18 months.

If we hadn't gone to Iraq, Afghanistan, and supported the Israelis, I imagine these numbers would be much higher with the young.

You know what, the more I think about this, I think you're onto something.

This very much mirrors the scenes I grew up with in the late 80s and through the 90s, early 2000s.

I just checked and there's still an old .gif image in the center of one of the websites with an upraised red fist.

A lot of those folks are security researchers, CISOs, network engineers, and software devs now.

Let me assure you that the population that you will find at Congress is rather anti-fascist. And so is the constitution of country where the event happens. As far as I remember from a few side-notes in my history classes, there are a few historic reasons for that. One may go so far as to call those reasons pretty stark reminders of why anti-fascism is a good thing...

The considerable number of libertarians and anarchists among the old-school hackers would probably be rather surprised to hear themselves described as collectivist.

Now realize there are 8 billion people on the planet, and the 95.6% of people are... really tired, and really upset with the 4.4% of that empire.

The US federal budget goes to:

(based on FY 2025 budget proposal )

category, billions, % of federal spending

Social Security 1,543 21.2%

Medicare 936 12.9%

Medicaid 589 8.1%

Food Stamps (SNAP) 94 1.3%

WIC 8 0.1%

Section 8 33 0.5%

Defense 900 12.4%

Other Entitlement Programs 1,168 16.1%

Other Agencies (Non-Defense Discretionary) 1,029 14.2%

250 years ago, every American was a beneficiary of slavery too. Help remind me how that one ended, will you?

Sure, I can agree that companies using gender dysphoria as only a way to increase profit is a bad thing, and I recognize that pharmaceutical companies are this way with _every_ drug and not just ones that benefit people. However I do disagree with the idea that people should be stripped of their right to free speech if you disagree with their statements, or stripped of their right to choose how to live their own lives.

I would offer that this is entirely different than the lack of choice we have in regard to how our government uses the military to "spread democracy at the point of a gun" while taking more and more of our tax dollars and liberty without improving our lives or tackling the problems that ordinary Americans face.

What on earth are you talking about?