Vaguely baffled

[james_davis_nicoll]

Pharyngula disagrees with spending priorities in the US.

1: Excessive education causes undesirable frequency of class ascension by the lower classes, who will then want stuff like voting rights and not being treated like property. Why should people already at the top want this?

2: Outspending everyone else combined militarily is peacock feathers for great powers.

3: While it seems likely much of official policy in intended to provide enough dead bodies to prevent the universe from collapsing every 52 years, not everything the US does is disliked by the people on the receiving end:

"Thank You USA - Armend Miftari MENDI (Official Video)" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

"America is the world's policeman" is not a view that is commonly held outside the US. "America is the world's Mafia enforcer" is.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

I pretty much only ever hear that line put forth by people in the US, and then generally by people who are firmly convinced the US is doing something around one hundred percent of anything resembling peacekeeping, development aid, military interventions, etc. abroad.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Our security apparatus is out of control. Anyone who thinks the average American approves of this isn't paying attention, our country has always been one where rich white jerks come first, everyone else second (or less).