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      Who’s gonna pay for a new fighter jet if they keep cutting taxes.

      Tax cuts only for the rich. Your taxes will go way up and don’t forget about all the tariff taxes everyday Americans will pay on top of their income tax increases. Plus, your kids will be drafted to kill their neighbors.

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      They will do whatever the Führer tells them. It’s naive to assume otherwise. Just look at history.

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            The US military still teaches the difference between a lawful and unlawful order.

            Just following orders doesn’t work in the US military.

            Now … whether the people who end up in the military are willing and capable and able to differentiate is a different story

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      That’s really wishful thinking. I think America has already shown it has no heart. Just because we are indoctrinated young to believe a heros image of certain professions doesn’t mean they are that. I wonder what the percentage is of naive people that are just doing what they are told, good people that actual have heart and care, and people that join these forces for their own power and agenda are. I think the naive and heartless might be dominating. I feel bad for the people that still think they are living, or in this case working, for humanity.

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    Sometimes now before i finished reading the headline I assume it must be from the onion or some other satire source, and until a second later i see it is just real news. The world got so unpredictable lately.

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    Boeing. Fucking Boeing. I haven’t even looked at the public information about this latest round of procurement, but… Boeing?

    Lockheed Martin is fucking pissed right about now. What happens if the arms manufactures stage a coup? We’d be proper fucked.

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      Boeing can’t compete in the civilian business and is too big to fail : solution is to give them subsidies in the form of military contact.

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      gonna be overpaying boeing for shit-tier aircraft as an incentive for them to stay out of the space business–so that muskrat can name his own ridiculously-high prices.

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      Well, for the “allies” that’s a good thing as it will take many more years to complete than scheduled, be massively more expensive than budgeted and be unreliable as hell. This gives said allies a proper chance to build an actual good jet. My money would be on a 6th gen Gripen.

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    Hopefully, if that ever happens, we start prosecuting every soldier and then on up the chain.

    Following orders is not an excuse.

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      That only happen after violences and war in which team Trump loose badly. Don’t be complacent with the illusion of rules of law if you don’t fight for your liberty you won’t keep it.

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        I’m sorry that this is only tangentially related, but I’m 30 years late to a fandom and I’m itching to bitch.

        I’ve been trying to look up fanfiction for DS9, and it’s fucking astounding how much quark/Odo porn there is. I get that they’ve got vibes, but it’s just too big a leap for me. Quark’s getting some serious character development lately (I’m in the 7th season) though, so maybe something changes soon.

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        Wise, wise decision.

        I swear it is true, though probably not the first search result. Citation available upon request.

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      Huh, that actually is Rule 34 on the list. Colour me surprised

      Rule 25 is “Fear makes a good business partner”

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    They didn’t really need to exaggerate in the headline. It’s still all fucked up.

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    Has the USA, historically, gone to war against former allies? Specifically, sovereign states we would sell arms to.

    So there’s really only one reason to say something like this…