FlyGuy
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Yes, citizens that commit crimes. As they should.
OT: American Politics
- Thread starter MindzEye
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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
Apparently their only crime is existing as non-white people.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Kinda wonder if the USA is setting themselves up for attacks (whatever the new 9/11 coukd be) by focussing so many resources on this + getting rid of any democratic/female/lgbt individuals from their defenses.
hockeylover
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Yeah, fighting with Iran while threatening Canada, Greenland, Panama and also deploying the military domestically doesn’t seem like a great plan to me.
hockeylover
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They keep referring to Martin v Mott which is a case from 1827 re: the War of 1812 and saying they have to stick to precedent.
But that was literally a foreign invasion. Seems absurd.
But that was literally a foreign invasion. Seems absurd.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
They're also in the middle of injecting more corruption into their procurement. One of the quiet line items that has been...adjusted...over the last few months is an office called the DOT&E. It's a unified office that sets the standards for military testing. So while the individual branches do their own testing as part of procurement, the DOT&E spells out what makes a valid test, how results are to be compiled and reported, etc.
A major reason for the runaway military budget in the US is the amount of things that were previously done by a civilian bureaucracy at the pentagon, are now done by civilian contractors at much, much higher costs. Having testing standards and standardization of data thrown out the window (DOT&E had their budget cut by 80%) means that the individual branches will do their own testing their own way, which really means that the tests will be done in ways to ensure that the programs they want generate the right testing data to justify inclusion in the budget. Testing will become more and more political (which is already the problem the DOT&E was created in the 80's to combat against) and more and more albatross programs that are politically helpful for "insert powerful Senator here" will keep getting funding.
This is taking the US military's existing procurement problems and putting them on steroids.
hockeylover
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View: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lrtcnjelok2h
Coming soon to a city near you, I guess.
Can’t see how this doesn’t get ugly eventually.
lecoqsportif
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Meanwhile, under cover of all the war war and militarized police state, the grift goes on:
www.ft.com
You might ask, why public? Because no one in the private/alternative investment ecosystem will touch such an obvious grift. No, it’s better to market it to clueless maga retail pigeons who will swallow anything linked to Dotard and take the steep losses as they did with TrumpCoin.
h/t prof g
Crypto group Tron to go public after US pauses probe into billionaire founder
Deal involving Justin Sun’s digital asset venture orchestrated by investment bank linked to Trump’s sons
www.ft.com
You might ask, why public? Because no one in the private/alternative investment ecosystem will touch such an obvious grift. No, it’s better to market it to clueless maga retail pigeons who will swallow anything linked to Dotard and take the steep losses as they did with TrumpCoin.
h/t prof g
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Leafyblue
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