• AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    I wonder how pissing off US defence contractors will go for Trump & co. I certainly wouldn’t want to poke that bear.

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      1 month ago

      I’m guessing the trillion dollar defense budget will have a calming effect on them.

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        1 month ago

        Perhaps, but greedy people who are willing to make weapons that kill children will definitely at least be annoyed that they’re losing billions internationally. They’re greedy corporations, after all.

      • Sc00ter@lemm.ee
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        I imagine the corporations don’t make those sales directly, they go through the government. The budget isnt just buying the air craft, theyre developing it, which means the design is technically government property.

        That means less cash flow in, reduced RoI, and ultimately smalled budgets

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Member the conspiracy theory that the US military industrial complex merc’d JFK because he was a threat to war, and war is business?

    trump is costing wealthy people billions of dollars with his bullshit now

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      1 month ago

      And yet Trump lives. I guess that proves the theory wrong.

      I’ve never been so disappointed to have a conspiracy disproved.

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      This is the kind of situation in which we win whatever the result.

      Billionaires losing billions is a great thing.

      But billionaires “solving” their losses issue is certainly enticing.

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        1 month ago

        There’s a third way where we still lose.

        Billionaires losing billions of foreign government investment lobby to have their losses made up by domestic government investment with funds derived from cuts to social services.

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