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Cerebral Bore posted:gotta have that space national guard so the orbital colonies don't get any ideas That's why the space navy needs a space army to fight, also maybe xenomorphs
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May 12, 2024 04:25
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KomradeX posted:That's why the space navy needs a space army to fight, also maybe xenomorphs counterpoint: the space navy is actually the guys breeding the xenomorphs
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May 12, 2024 04:26
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Palladium posted:counterpoint: the space navy is actually the guys breeding the xenomorphs Only because the xenomorphs are obviously the next wunderwaffe that will put down rebellious planets
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May 12, 2024 04:35
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Why would the space force even need reservist? Do you like, expect space force to deploy into a space war and need the guardsmen/reservist to back fill?
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May 12, 2024 05:39
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Why would the space force even need reservist? Do you like, expect space force to deploy into a space war and need the guardsmen/reservist to back fill? the thing about the mic is that it is all run by mbas, it’s about budget. some mckinsey general is trying to absorb the budget of some pwc general
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Mandel Brotset posted:the thing about the mic is that it is all run by mbas, it’s about budget. some mckinsey general is trying to absorb the budget of some pwc general Companies like Raytheon actually contract companies like McKinsey to streamline their profit generation to create production metrics and whatever euphemisms they use to fire people to create shareholder value
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Has anyone considered that defense industries can create shareholder value by having the shareholders country not be bombed into the ground? No? Well, ok, maybe give it a thought sometime.
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May 12, 2024 06:54
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lmao forever that everyone laughed at Trump for making the space force but Biden is not only keeping it going but keeps trying to bulk it up and legitimize it
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May 12, 2024 08:02
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more like united states space farce
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Lostconfused posted:Has anyone considered that defense industries can create shareholder value by having the shareholders country not be bombed into the ground? No? Well, ok, maybe give it a thought sometime. Think of all the juicy reconstruction contracts. Don't even need to actually do any reconstruction, either. E: Saw an article talking about how it'll probably take 80 years to rebuild Gaza. Now there might not be much money in this particular case but imagine passing a chance to grift for like a century. Kassad has issued a correction as of 11:31 on May 12, 2024 |
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May 12, 2024 11:23
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More loser talk from Janet Yellen about China outproducing us. https://www.marketplace.org/2024/05/09/inflation-is-not-yet-where-it-needs-to-be-treasury-secretary-yellen-says/ quote:Ryssdal: Let me ask you about one of the focuses of that trip, which is, as you mentioned, overcapacity in advanced products, electric vehicles, batteries, all of those things. Is it possible we’re just being outcompeted by the Chinese in those fields? Found it from this twitter post https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1789488343513969066
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May 12, 2024 12:59
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BearsBearsBears posted:More loser talk from Janet Yellen about China outproducing us. i can't believe the guys who aren't forehead-deep in state-sponsored grifts are outcompeting us
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May 12, 2024 13:10
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BearsBearsBears posted:More loser talk from Janet Yellen about China outproducing us. lmbo, man i remember the first time i read the ghost cities articles like 15 years ago or whatever as a lib and had a chuckle. hell, laughing even more nowadays.
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500excf type r posted:Companies like Raytheon actually contract companies like McKinsey to streamline their profit generation to create production metrics and whatever euphemisms they use to fire people to create shareholder value this is, of course, entirely unrelated to the thread title. do NOT imply it is related to the thread title!!!
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fits my needs posted:lmbo, man i remember the first time i read the ghost cities articles like 15 years ago This was the exact propaganda that broke the illusion for me, one day I decided to look up what the story was on that, and just found the information the party had put online about development plans for literally anyone to look at that laid it out completely. Certainly all these hard hitting reporters were able to find this in their research, right? Strange that I never heard it before!
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May 12, 2024 14:08
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it's not fair that they get to plan farther ahead than the next earnings call. mods?
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Grimnarsson posted:The Vietnam example that I had in mind was a veteran telling a story how they killed an elderly couple at some field, and how as the incident was reported "upwards" that elderly couple transformed into a squad of heavily armed insurgents. That's because the US couldn't measure success in that war by traditional metrics like taking territory, defeating enemy armies, taking their capitol. They figured that in order to win you should identify key statistics of previously won wars and then aim at those goals: bombs dropped, enemies killed. But at every stage there was an incentive to massage those numbers, ever more so as they became more detached from what was actually going on in the field. This reminds me of an excerpt I once saw, maybe even on this forum, from a book written by a guy who was an officer in Vietnam. One of the events he was describing was being pressured to accept medals and commendations for his performance in a battle that he insisted did not actually happen.
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BearsBearsBears posted:More loser talk from Janet Yellen about China outproducing us. Hey Yellen - the difference is when china subsidizes something they actually get what they pay for you dumb bitch
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I would love to see the US try to do total war in 2024. I imagine the scheme would just be to quintuple military spending, offer prisoners the chance to do military service in return for no time off their sentence, and make insider trading officially legal for some reason
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May 12, 2024 20:14
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the starship troopers “war! we’re going to war!” scene except instead of soliders, it’s mbas running toward the money printer
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May 12, 2024 20:27
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It would take, at minimum, 9/11, to get the public to support a major war, and more than that for a war against Russia or China, that would have major costs at home and abroad for the Yankee population.
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May 12, 2024 20:28
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Hmm. Yes let's take on Russia and China. A pointless two front war against two separate major world powers, both of which would normally never work together but who have found common ground in being sick of the bullshit. Oh also we're facilitating a genocide against a semitic peoples at the same time. Modern USA reminds me of someone but I can't quite put my finger on it.
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:It would take, at minimum, 9/11, to get the public to support a major war, and more than that for a war against Russia or China, that would have major costs at home and abroad for the Yankee population. there’s no where in america that could host 9/11 2 and rally the public. if it did happen half the country would cheer it as comeuppance for voting for biden or trump. the only part of America that has bipartisan support is israel and im told the idf would ensure nothing like that could ever happen there…
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I love how all these NAFO accounts went from crowing about Russia losing a bajillion orks and tanks to panicked articles about how we need NATO/EU troops in Ukraine NOW. https://x.com/JaharaMatisek/status/1643042563992043520 https://x.com/JaharaMatisek/status/1762234678826639836 https://x.com/JaharaMatisek/status/1763234732152697134 https://x.com/JaharaMatisek/status/1782267584684892181
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May 12, 2024 21:08
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:The French had already created the ARVN 20 years earlier. How much time did the Americans need? I mean Diem did try to create a Catholic Vietnamese nation...
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Specifying that Europe, not NATO, should be fed into the chipper shredder.
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Space Force is fuckin weird man
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sullat posted:I mean Diem did try to create a Catholic Vietnamese nation... Which had some level of support in the early 50's, and was immediately frittered away by being corrupt and not offering any kind of social project that could compete with the North. It's the same problem as any other kind of proxy state, where the nationalists realize that their ambitions get sidelined too because national interest is ultimately secondary to their sponsors'.
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Buffer posted:Hey Yellen - the difference is when china subsidizes something they actually get what they pay for you dumb bitch The US semiconductor industry--famously developed 100% independently from government subsidies or investment
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chickenhawks all becoming huge liberals (and vice versa) is amazing. there is absolutely zero overlap between guys who want to “confront” China and guys willing to join up. Why would there be? soldiering is for dummies and the market has determined I’m best utilized sending emails.
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BadOptics posted:I love how all these NAFO accounts went from crowing about Russia losing a bajillion orks and tanks to panicked articles about how we need NATO/EU troops in Ukraine NOW. Aren't most of those eight thousand other tanks mostly costly paper weights because no ones make engines for them in like 20 years
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Fell Mood posted:Hmm. Yes let's take on Russia and China. A pointless two front war against two separate major world powers, both of which would normally never work together but who have found common ground in being sick of the bullshit. Oh also we're facilitating a genocide against a semitic peoples at the same time. Modern USA reminds me of someone but I can't quite put my finger on it. You're forgetting the wars in the desert and at sea that are being lost.
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KomradeX posted:Aren't most of those eight thousand other tanks mostly costly paper weights because no ones make engines for them in like 20 years The tanks sitting in the high desert aren't like lubed up ready to go; they're in deep storage and many of them have been used as parts donors for years or decades. The Marine Corps tanks they're talking about already largely got slated or upgraded for Army usage, because older tanks that Marines were using were in much better condition than tanks that have been sitting in the desert for years. I mean, is it possible to refurbish and reuse a lot of the older tanks in storage? Yes, that's why they're stored in high altitude, low humidity environment and catalogued and inventoried by grade/condition, but you're talking dedicated lines and effort to refit them (like we've seen Russia doing with its older stock, refitting old tanks and APCs and such to refit their own lines, at considerable expense). I don't think the US is going to set up a supply line to refit hundreds of armored vehicles on Ukraine's behalf, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:Not only U.S.A. proper. Literally every successful (and not successful) semiconductor manufacturing industry has recieved huge amounts of state funding and support so it's absolutely hilarious to criticize china for doing the same. Even dumber to accuse them of trying to have a "monopoly" and take over the entire sector given the current market. skill issue
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