[Endless screaming]

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    10 months ago

    Ok start a war with North Korea then, see how well that works out for you

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      10 months ago

      Actually please don't because I'm not enthusiastic about the 25M NKorean civilians who will be targeted for an aerial bombardment genocide.

      • CrushKillDestroySwag
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        10 months ago

        Me neither, but I also wonder if three simultaneous wars might break the western MIC and lead to potential gains on all three fronts.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          10 months ago

          It feels like more and more of our economy is becoming an explicit engine for manufacturing weapons to export abroad at a loss. Like we're just subsidizing people killing each other overseas, and not even with a particularly high success rate.

          I do wonder if we'll ever see a Congress that gridlocks hard enough during a downturn to legit bankrupt one of the major defense contractors. Boeing certainly got close for a minute there, back in 2020. And if we lose a company like Boeing, we lose the ability to make advanced aircraft, which will set us back quite badly on a national stage.

          • silent_water [she/her]
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            10 months ago

            a completely unpredictable consequence of making the MiC the only welfare program in the country. who could have seen this coming??