Meanwhile, they’re running the whole factory floor with just one tech per division (used to be 3-5 per shift). Fucking clownshow industry.
When I was trained on the 50 cal and 240 in the navy, the three second burst was “Die motherfucker” and the five second burst was “Die motherfucker, die”
Ach, mein Bankaccount is full of dollars now!
Okay so you just want Russia to genocide our brave slava ukrainies?????????
The vast majority of US Navy shipyards were sold off between world war 2 and today. As an example, the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard is now luxury condominiums. The US government owns four shipyards total: Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington, and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii. Every ship in the navy is built at a handful of private shipyards, and the capability to expand naval shipbuilding isn’t available. With neoliberalism in full swing, the number of skilled shipyard workers is kept as low as possible, with massive layoffs happening every few years, further reducing the inventory of skilled shipbuilders.
This is likewise true with aircraft manufacturing, as well as other manufacturing capabilities. There are no typewriter factory equivalents to retool to make tommygun equivalents.
The bottom line is that the US cannot sustain medium term or long term peer or near peer warfare and, as someone who was in defense acquisitions in a previous life and in manufacturing now, the capabilities of extant materiel isn’t sufficient to justify being the most expensive military in history.
I hope when the nukes fly that one explodes directly above me.
They did it after 9/11 too! I remember my shithead roommate always had it on and there was nonstop Natalie Holloway coverage for years.
Take a two day break from news and (1039 new)
The Hungarian uprising? The one prominently featuring Nazi collaborators? That the one you’re so concerned about?
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I guess they forgot the NLRA was a compromise that fucked labor over too. The alternative to legal challenges was beating the factory owner to death in front of their family.