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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Our side you mean the side of imperialism and neocolonialism, of the invasion of Iraq, of the bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Korea, and the interventionism in Chile, Libya, Iran (Mosaddegh era), and the support of the banana republics? Fuck that, that's not my side.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Agreed, as a Queer person I do not stand with the military industrial complex, nor the politicians that are payed off by them, nor the military that uses their weapons against the innocent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is it better to be a queer person in a nation with a strong military that respects and integrates queer people, or a queer person in a nation with a weak military that imprisons and sometimes lynches queer people?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What's this nonsense? How does reducing military expenditure lead to imprisonment and lynching of queer people? Is the only thing keeping the Military Industrial Complex from murdering queer people giving the former enough money?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's this nonsense?

It's called a question. There are two scenarios alternate. There is no supposition of cause and effect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Sure, then I refuse to answer your question

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Queer rights and small government not only are not contradictary but actively work together to from a free society, so no I will not engage in your false liberal dicatomy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Great. What's keeping you from moving to these free societies?