I'm going to assume that you're an American, speaking from an Americentric point of view and I'd like to take this as an opportunity to discuss the fact that Hacker News is a website that is available to people around the world. Many of those people are not American citizens and do not have the same relationship with the US military and government that you do.

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mediascreen a day ago | parent | next [-]

Only Americans want to defend their country? I'm Swedish, did my military service, and generally agree that I would want our defence forces to have the best weapons available.

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Petersipoi a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The link given was to a blog post from the US army. Good try though.

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Teever a day ago | parent [-]

This isn't a gotcha or 'try' it's a critique about how US defaultism overwhelms conversations on this site and how it is detrimental to the conversation at hand.

I'm not disputing that one of the links from the comment that gmerc made came from a US military domain, but that's moot. A licence against military use covers every army, not the one you happen to identify with.

As an aside, I'm curious what nationality user gmerc is. If they're the person in the video that they linked to it sounds like they're German?

And this isn't being nitpicky -- it's really important in the context of this discussion. People from certain countries more than others seem to lack this concept of civic hygiene and clam up when the discussion comes up.

We should push past that awkwardness and keep having these discussions about concepts like civic hygiene. It's important.

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