outlawauron said:
Teeqoz said:
Viably, the US could already withdraw a lot of their own spending on military, and I hope for the sake of the American people that they do, and rather focus spending on things that benefit the American people.
I also do hope that my own country, Norway, steps up to meet the 2% demand, and given that the largest parties on both the left and the right (no, this isn't a left vs right issue, opinions are very divided on both sides) are in favour of this, it seems likely that this will happen at least in Norway. But I also hope more precautions are taken to avoid creating situations like Libya and Syria, where NATO stepped in, presumably with good intentions, but ended up creating a power vacum that destabilized the entire region.
EDIT: Just to further stress that this isn't a left vs right issue (and no Outlaw, this isn't directed specifically at you, just in general), the current secretary general of NATO was the prime minister of Norway in the last period, and the leader of the labour party before he stepped down to become the secretary general of NATO. Certainly a man from the left, especially by international standards (he is as much a "socialist" as Bernie Sanders).
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They could of course, but they would also leave a giant vacuum. We have nearly 100k stationed in Europe, which is more than the standing army for several of the countries we are stationed in. I hope that the US is able to reduce spending strategically. There's no reason to have as many bases open as we do across the world.
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Ofcourse any stepping down needs to be done gradually, I just don't think stuff like Trump's proposed 50 billion dollar increase of the defense budget is necessary in the country that already has by far the largest defense budget in the world.
outlawauron said:
Teeqoz said:
What is a "3rd wave feminist"?
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I mean, you could just google it. The current movement of feminism. Started in 90s.
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"Third-wave feminism encompasses several diverse strains of feminist activity and study."
From Wiki. I was just curious if the user meant everyone, or close to it, who considers themselves to currently be a feminist, or some specific subset as the rest of his comments imply. What is more important to me here is who that user is talking about, not the dictionairy definition, because hey, if I just use the dictionairy definition of feminism, all feminists just want equality for both genders. 
