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This has got to be the most faggy shit I've ever seen. How do people get off to shit like this? This is obviously something so surface level and they lap it up.
Trump Enslavement Syndrome - Orange man good. /r/The_Donald and any public demonstration of rabid pro-Trump enthusiasm in spite of all reason.
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No you see it's a 6D chess move!
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The US is a society ruled by its desire for spectacle. It's one of the countries where popular movements are doomed to failure as people will actively elect senile retards and conmen because they're funny. MAGA being an Internet community craves spectacle above all else.
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The majority of the dealerships that are being hit are Tesla Dealerships, when it comes to those they are losing money as the Dealership hasn't sold the car yet as it was given directly to them at no cost because its just there Store Front.
Its one of the reasons why a dealership in Canada was forging sales to themselves to game a system setup in Canada.
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I am not even sure what Elon wants to do in politics, some say make money for himself but he was already doing that. Under Biden there was tons of EV subsidies that massively benefited him, he seems to have some grander ambition but I can't see what. Supposedly his main source of information is get this catturd on X.
Great argument against democracy.
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update: I won the argument on the internet.
edit: I might be wrong because they haven't announced the actual charges yet
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The WEF is nothing
The right was led down the garden path by WEF-centric conspiracies which allege the organisation is the head of some kind of communist plot. The truth is, it's an annual Ted talks for the global superelite of capitalists who love individualism, free trade and Western liberal democracy.
They are not communists and there is no depopulation agenda. They do not fear conservatives getting power to lower their taxes and regulations. Why would they? This superelite was empowered under neoliberalism by the same policies of marketisation championed by people like Milei.
Right wing influencers are trying to generate excitement for figures like Milei and bring the right back to the low IQ Reaganism that dominated conservatism up to the early 2010s, before Trump disrupted it with his rhetorical embrace of protectionism and nationalism.
The same Reaganite conservatives like Glenn Beck now publish bestselling books exposing the "WEF agenda" with mainstream book publishers. The obsession with the WEF over the COVID period was a nice way for them to repackage the same losing formula conservatives have had for decades as something revolutionary
The WEF is another spooky conference! Attendees booed and heckled Colin Powell when he went there to defend the Iraq War, but they were completely unable to influence one of the key events of the century thus far. The WEF was also rebuked and dismissed by the entire world when it tried to convince national governments not to use stimulus spending during Covid, and since then we’ve seen more tariffs, more protectionism, and more R&D spending (essentially we've seen the rise of a sort of diet nationalism). I shouldn’t even say “they” really, because it’s just a catered public symposium full of “thought gurus”, business leaders, and academics who often have conflicting opinions.
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How is something a conspiracy when you can just go to their website and read all their stuff? Am I supposed to not believe the billionaire supercapitalist class telling me things right to my face? And Trump got invited there to take questions just two days after the inauguration.
Just because Glen Beck or some other left or right wing talking head mentions something doesn't mean you just dismiss the whole subject out of hand. Glen Beck said Federal Reserve is bad, does that mean Federal Reserve good?
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I got to thinking; why is cutting Government making the government more efficient and cheap? It should be the other way around.
I am a defense contractor for help desk IT, and our company receives $150k for salary and benefits for each person they staff, I only see around 60k of this (hopefully 70k soon, got a new job offer and im extorting my boss)
A GS-12 (which I aspire to be, or a GS-13) makes around 85-115k, and gets a 5% match 401k (i get 50% of 6%) as well as paying into a pension plan; which overall means they'd spend 120k, a 30k savings. It would be far better to actually increase the size of the government than give defense contractors overinflated salaries. The guys in the cyberteam are alloted $230k in the contract and they only make 80-110k. I can't imagine what a project manager or actual niche skill makes (since the cybersec guys don't really do cyber like you think they do)
Gonna make a thread on this actually...
I am a defense contractor for help desk IT, and our company receives $150k for salary and benefits for each person they staff, I only see around 60k of this (hopefully 70k soon, got a new job offer and im extorting my boss)
A GS-12 (which I aspire to be, or a GS-13) makes around 85-115k, and gets a 5% match 401k (i get 50% of 6%) as well as paying into a pension plan; which overall means they'd spend 120k, a 30k savings. It would be far better to actually increase the size of the government than give defense contractors overinflated salaries. The guys in the cyberteam are alloted $230k in the contract and they only make 80-110k. I can't imagine what a project manager or actual niche skill makes (since the cybersec guys don't really do cyber like you think they do)
Gonna make a thread on this actually...
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The amount of profit defense contractors make is truly honestly gross. Part of the blame lies at the feet of Congress - before Trump froze civilian hiring, hiring caps stopped how many hires federal agencies could make in a fiscal year.
but those hires are also on public payscales, such as the GS or the GG scale.
It's why so many contractors are working at the Pentagon and intel agencies.
The actual cost of contracts is what's nauseating. A contracting firm like Leidos or CACI often hires recently honorably discharged DD-214 soldiers who still hold active security clearances (a big plus if those soldiers worked in intelligence collection or cyber intelligence).
CACI picks up a contract where the Federal government offers $120k to fill an analyst role somewhere in Oceania. CACI then hires an analyst to fill that spot, paying them anywhere from $55k (or about $25 per hour) to $72k (or about $37 per hour). The rest of the money goes to the contracting company - usually no health insurance or very meager if it is provided, no overtime, nothing. It's a fixed-rate contract.
That's why big government corps are christened "beltway bandits" - they usually offer marginally better pay rates than the government, with more freedom, the ability to quit when you like, etc, but the contractor is generally not doing too much better than the enlisted or the officer. There are exceptions, of course, but that's the rule of thumb
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Boeing to build next-gen 'F-47' US fighter jet, Trump announces
Orange faggot cocksucker literally giving a giant "FUCK YOU" to airliner safety and quality regulations, giving even MORE money to this fucking company isn't going to make them do better you cheeto kike. Sure, let's give millions to the company that ASSASSINATED ITS FUCKING WHISTLEBLOWERS. Now watch cheeto cockslurpers do a 180 snap-about-face and say "BOEING ALWAYS GOOD BOEING BASED NOT WOKE" and how the planes literally fucking breaking apart mid-flight all the time were just FAKE NEWS when they were all too happy to skewer them over FUCKING DEI! I hope donny gets so far up his own asshole that he signs an executive order so that only his cocksuckers can fly on boeing planes, then they can experience for themselves how donny returned the favor for them continually sweeping it up for him just like with OPERATION WARP SPEED
President Donald Trump announced that Boeing will build the next-generation fighter jet, the F-47, for the U.S. Air Force. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joined him in the Oval Office for the announcement.
"I’m thrilled to announce that my direction the United States Air Force is moving forward with the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet… Nothing in the world comes even close to it, and it’ll be called the ‘F-47,’ the generals picked that title."
Trump said that Boeing was award the contract after a "rigorous and thorough competition between some of America’s top aerospace companies." The president also stated that an experiential version of the jet has apparently "secretly been flying" for nearly five years.
"The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built," Trump told reporters. "America’s enemies will never see it coming," he later added.
The Trump administration has taken a different approach to the Defense Department than the Biden administration, which includes a focus on establishing American dominance on the world stage.
The F-47 will be built as part of the Next Generation Air Defense (NGAD) initiative, which was paused under the Biden administration. During the announcement, Hegseth touched on the program and said that the Biden administration was "prepared to potentially scrap it."
According to Axios, NGAD is looking to have the sixth-generation fighters supported by robotic wingmen designed by Anduril Industries and General Atomics.
Hegseth praised the president for reviving NGAD, and said the fighter jet "sends a very direct, clear message to our allies that we're not going anywhere, and to our enemies that we can we will be able to project power around the globe, unimpeded for generations to come."
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin, who was also present in the Oval Office, said that the aircraft represents what "peace through strength looks like into the future." He also thanked the president and said that the F-47 would help the Air Force establish deterrence.
"I’m thrilled to announce that my direction the United States Air Force is moving forward with the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet… Nothing in the world comes even close to it, and it’ll be called the ‘F-47,’ the generals picked that title."
Trump said that Boeing was award the contract after a "rigorous and thorough competition between some of America’s top aerospace companies." The president also stated that an experiential version of the jet has apparently "secretly been flying" for nearly five years.
"The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built," Trump told reporters. "America’s enemies will never see it coming," he later added.
The Trump administration has taken a different approach to the Defense Department than the Biden administration, which includes a focus on establishing American dominance on the world stage.
The F-47 will be built as part of the Next Generation Air Defense (NGAD) initiative, which was paused under the Biden administration. During the announcement, Hegseth touched on the program and said that the Biden administration was "prepared to potentially scrap it."
According to Axios, NGAD is looking to have the sixth-generation fighters supported by robotic wingmen designed by Anduril Industries and General Atomics.
Hegseth praised the president for reviving NGAD, and said the fighter jet "sends a very direct, clear message to our allies that we're not going anywhere, and to our enemies that we can we will be able to project power around the globe, unimpeded for generations to come."
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin, who was also present in the Oval Office, said that the aircraft represents what "peace through strength looks like into the future." He also thanked the president and said that the F-47 would help the Air Force establish deterrence.
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Is he aware he doesn’t get to run for King?
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Despite this wall of text spergout that follows it, the jet kinda looks retarded. I assume its bulk may be because its carrying smart/gps guided bombs?
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The jet Trump put on display is an artist's rendition of NGAD, not an actual photo of NGAD. NGAD has had at least one flying prototype since 2020, it may be on the chopping block due to significant cost overruns before serial production and Pete Heggseth's stated desire to cut Pentagon spending by 8% for FY 2026. tl;dr NGAD is a fucking cool plane but Trump has done another "fell for it twice" moment by stating no new information.
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As much as I dislike Boeing, there is a significant divide between the reputation of its military and civilian divisions. The F-15 (inherited from McDonnell Douglas and undefeated with over 100 A2A kills), the F/A-18, and the AH-64 Apache are globally respected war machines, but they do nothing to salvage the reputation of the 737 and 787. I don't think the NGAD would change that.
If anything, it's more likely that Orange enjoyers would downplay the cost overruns that the NGAD will eventually incur, as it follows the same path as the Locksneed F-35.
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Honestly the military division is probably what’s going to keep Boeing afloat. As long as the MBA dipshits running the civilian portion don’t try to get involved.
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also the McDonnell Douglas merger has nothing to do with Boeing safety issues. I would argue DEI is a better explanation. The McD merger happened in the 90s and most of the executives that came over have since retried why is it just now an issue ? The DEI practices corelate much better with when Boeing's falloff started.
Also about the whistleblower, look it sucks he roped but I don't think Boeing should be held responsible. We are Kiwi Farms users I think we of all people should know the implications this precedent should set. I have to stand by my principals no matter what no one should be held accountable for the suicide of another person. It is to abusable.
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Underinvestment doesn't ruin a company overnight, they're like cancer, slowly eating away at the company until you have massive systemic problems. In Boeing's case, underinvestment meant nearly $70 billion in stock buybacks in the 2010s, apparently their way of coping with the halving of the value of their stock during the great recession. This is on top of waves of layoffs of experienced and skilled workers. Both are still ongoing. You really think hiring a few niggers and trannies to hang up posters about misgendering in break rooms has had more of an impact than that?