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Cirsium

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Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2026, 01:32 PM

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"The result is a world in which the most consequential targeting decisions in modern warfare are made by systems that cannot explain themselves, supplied by companies that answer to no one, in conflicts that generate no accountability and no reckoning. That is not a failure of the system. That is the system."

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