> you can't tell people "we have to work more to simply keep the status quo", let alone "we may even lose a lot of nice things and convenience in the process"

And yet this is what will happen. The question is are we walking into this prepared, or not? Just like a war, it’s unpleasant, most people would rather not do it, but would you rather be on the side that prepared for it or on the side that gets “surprised” by it?

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hammock 5 hours ago | parent [-]

So you are in favor of more defense spending?

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ornornor 5 hours ago | parent [-]

How is this relevant to what we’re discussing in this thread?

	▲	toasty228 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Lot's of people can't get out of the Hollywood end of the world cliché where the people who survive are the ones with the biggest bombs, they just can't get past the myths we built... Cooperation is foreign to them, and it's a big part of why we can't seem to build anything cohesive past the country level.
	▲	hammock 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> a war, it’s unpleasant, most people would rather not do it, but would you rather be on the side that prepared for it or on the side that gets “surprised” by it?