Our government breaking expensive contracts we didn't need to sign up to a different more expensive deal we really don't need, while failing to properly fund our domestic needs is so shit.
I have no idea what that means. The post was about military spending by Australia and Canada, I was pointing out the ridiculous overspending on military in Australia and the related international embarrassment of reneging on a signed deal in order to further increase that spending. It seemed relevant.
The original post was about how people who are pro military spending are not the best people. It's a pretty damn good military satire if you ask me. I just took that satire and built on it by discussing the matter more seriously.
Wait, so are people in this community just roleplaying being pro-military, and it's actually all meant to make fun of that thought process? Because honestly it's very much not clear.
Australia is buying its way out of a massive deal for French-designed diesel submarines in order to buy its way into a US-UK deal for nuclear subs, despite the fact that for decades it's been well-established that our primary concern is our local area. We don't need or want the power projection capabilities that require nuclear subs like America has.
Right, but a well thought out take like that here is like going to r/NoSleep and commenting how someone's scary story couldn't have actually happened because skinwalkers aren't real.
An NCD take would be of course Australia wants to project power like America, you can never have too much defense budget and anything else is a waste of money
Yo wtf? No you didn't warn me, you banned me for a comment made before the warning came in.
And wtf gives anyway. Can't handle your shitty murderous ideology being faced with some very milquetoast polite pushback from someone who was agreeing with the message in the image that you've allowed to keep up anyway (if not with the title of that post). Geez, why not just head back to Reddit if that's the style of moderation you think is appropriate?
Which is it? A post about the moral value of political spending—whether it was negative towards military spending like this one, or if it were a hypothetical one in favour of spending more on the military—is inherently making a political statement, regardless of which way it was meant. You can hardly say there's no room for political discussion in a post about one of the biggest things politics spends money on.