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What opposing argument have you tried to give an honest reasoning towards, but still ended up disagreeing with it? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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No examples from me, just curious.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I see this opinion a lot. Sincere question, how are countries without armies supposed to defend themselves from imperialism?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Give America all your oil.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You can rephrase it in lighter terms as "how much is enought military funding?"

[โ€“] ulterno 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

enought military funding

as much as can keep you more powerful than the rest of the competition combined.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Well that escalated quickly.

[โ€“] ulterno 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

At least that's what I aim for in Civ VI.
No idea about you

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

I don't play Civ VI and I don't rule a country so I can't speak from experience.

[โ€“] ulterno 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Pretty simple actually.
Just make sure you don't have any resource worth anything in the international market.

  1. Let stuff like petroleum, Lithium, Uranium and other such thingies be sold to the first bidder.
  2. Have your soil be nuclear contaminated, down to the bedrock, so nobody wants your land.
  • Also, import all nuclear waste from other countries
  1. Have a population that looks as ugly as possible, so noone will want to rape your people.
  • Should be easier considering point 2
  • Something like leprosy in the genitals would help too.
  1. Be absolutely full of population, such that the place is a cesspool.

Hey, I said it'd be simple, not that it would be easy or even humanly possible.