Dear Americans, how do you feel about this?

[Aspenglow]

Moderating:

I left this thread open for a period of time to give the OP an opportunity to debate their position in good faith. The well was then poisoned with provocative language such as:

@thescrr

Yes I knew someone would bring that up. The US spends 700 billion a year on military and that is only about 2-3% of the total GDP of the USA which is around 25 trillion per year. Hmm but somehow the US is 30 trillion in debt and it keeps growing each year and that debt is handed down to you and your children. That doesn’t concern you? Will they just print more money when they need to? 50 billion seems like it would help a lot of Americans. Just saying.

@thescrr

but you aren’t actually helping Ukraine with the fighting. You are only sending them weapons. It’s not really like America is stepping in to help Ukraine. Think about it. And it’s great you want to help people, so why aren’t you helping the Palestinians or the Afghans or the other number of countries you’ve let down and left behind in ruins like in the middle east? Just asking.

I’m not seeing any good faith effort at debate here on the part of the OP, so I’m closing this.

@thescrr, if you start another such thread, I will characterize it as trolling, with appropriate consequences imposed.

ETA:

It was brought to my attention that there are several accusations of the OP’s being a bot in this thread.

@silenus

Exactly. With emphasis. Delenda est Ruthenia! Damn the cost.

@silenus

A bot farm outside Moscow, I suspect.

@silenus

Of course it isn’t. Bots be bots.

Delenda est Ruthenia!

This is against our rules and you know better, @silenus. It’s a close call whether to issue a warning. Knock it off.