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[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Frag nicht was für Saft

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago
[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The older he gets the more true it'll be. Once he change sthe law to become supreme leader for life it will also get easier, just need to keep him alive longer. In China they harvest organs from young people to keep the CPP top alive as long as possible, so why not in America too? Learn from the winners! /s

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And i thought that meme was simple enough to understand....

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But you don't want to enlighten me?

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not very. The DoD is aggressively apolitical with regards to domestic politics.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh is that why it’s always left-leaning governments that get targeted?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh is that why it’s always left-leaning governments that get targeted?

Jesus fucking Christ.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You seem to be lacking in information, here is a non-comprehensive place for you to start learning about our government's history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)
  1. Strange that there are right-wing governments that were hostile to US interests targeted in that list, then. Fuck, did you even read your own source?

  2. The DoD doesn't choose its targets, Einstein.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok, perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word “always” because it have you a red herring to latch onto while missing the point.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

The point being that you don't even understand that the DoD doesn't pick its own targets? Fuck's sake.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago
[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

DoD is the institution that basically bankrolls most of what musk ever did, to me this just feels like a modern howard hughes, a flashy rich public person that does "crazy" things, very usefull thing to have to hide big military projects in plain sight....

I dont even know what the implications are when the guy that was supposed to be the diversion ends up that close to the power that funds him.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So far Musk's relationship with DoD is mostly just hucking their satellites into orbit. He's not really doing the crazy military stuff.

DoD is way more interested in the big primes - Lockheed, Northrop, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boeing, etc. Satellites are just a piece of the bigger package. They still need missiles, tanks, and aircraft to act on what the satellites teach them.

Satellites are the high ground

I dont even know what the implications are when the guy that was supposed to be the diversion ends up that close to the power that funds him.

"Do not cross the streams. That would be bad."

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you're making the take even less credible

thats how it works isnt it

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 8 points 1 week ago

That said I am very concerned with the influence he undoubtedly will have with our space asset acquisition policies.

After all, King Bazinga would not have invested millions of dollars in the Orange Man campaign if he had not been interested in having more interference within the bourgeois state. It is the bourgeoisie in control

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Been steamrolling for a while now

[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

This is the reality for most people in the global south observing the US

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago

Maybe. But I won't be surprised to see this vehicle be on top of a ship, with a name of some obscurely elite group of ppl.