• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    "But it's cheap! That means it's bad! They need to give at least several billion to the CEOs of big military development companies before a sonar system can work, everybody knows that!"

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      6 months ago

      I still love this Sullivan talk where he admits that the whole free market bullshit they’ve been promoting can’t actually compete with what China is doing https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/04/27/remarks-by-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-on-renewing-american-economic-leadership-at-the-brookings-institution/

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        A big part of becoming a leftist for me was when I was an adolescent car guy and figured out 8 companies simultaneously developing the same sensible 1,6L 4-Banger is a colossal fucking waste of ressources

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
          hexagon
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          6 months ago

          Yeah, once you realize how much duplication happens when companies just keep reinventing the same thing over and over, it becomes hard to swallow the whole capitalism is efficient narrative.