[hintymad]

I can understand Google employees' passion to curb the power of military. I myself strongly support keeping government's power in check too. But the hatred towards the military, to the point of actively sabotaging military's effort to improve itself? That I don't understand. I really wish those employees travel back in time to experience the European people's life under Mongolian's reign, or the Aztec's life when Spaniards attacked, or the life of people in Manchurian when Nurgaci's tribe was rising in the early 17th century, or the life of Chinese people merely a hundred years ago when Japanese invaded. Shouldn't it mean something when millions of innocent people were slaughtered in a matter of years, or when a civilization (especially a more advanced one) got destroyed, or when a nation's human rights were stepped on?

P.S., it's worth mentioning that it was the Manchurian who restored slavery in Qing Dynasty. The word Nucai in Chinese or 명사 in Korean, meaning Your Slave, was such an honorary title that for more than 300 years until early 20th century only those who were trusted by the royals could use. Yeah, don't wanna be a slave? Build a good army.

[roflulz]

isn't the US Military the equivalent of the "Manchu" here? (The US Military wiped out the natives, took all their land, and brought and enforced slavery on this land?) Didn't the US just annex Hawaii as an official state a few years ago? Isn't all of California land that the military just kinda stole from Mexico?

[neither_color]

The answer to all of your questions is no, but this kind of discussion belongs on reddit anyways.

[14u2c]

>Didn't the US just annex Hawaii as an official state a few years ago?

I suppose if you consider 1898 a few years ago.

[roflulz]

it became a state in 1959 with everything finally crushed out of it - before that it was still a quasi territory with more independence

[14u2c]

I knew I'd get this. Yes, true, but 1898 was the date of "annexation"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands_Resolution