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   cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 23:12:22 JST cjd
   To all the StAhP MiSiNfOrMaTiOn goobers, amplifying accusations of government wrongdoing literally saves lives.
   
   Even if it turns out that the rumors were untrue, making these DEI hires get out of their chair and do something is objectively a good thing.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 23:46:02 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @cjd secret weapons stuff is all good, but I’m having a hard time believing that the US military, the most pampered and hidden from the public organization, with the most vague goals, is the one that can outcompete private enterprise and get some “secret tech” going.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 23:46:03 JST cjd

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     Midwits are dragging on this to try to sound smart, but this is actually a high intelligence post.
     
     1. We don't really know what the US military can and can't do, we know secret weapons exist, we don't know what they are.
     
     2. Not one of the reply-guys here can say with any kind of authority that this hurricane was NOT manmade.
     
     3. Kicking up a fuss and PUTTING PRESSURE ON THEM is robust decision making.
     
     Robust means it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, it's smart either way.
     
     It's smart because by putting pressure on FEDGOV, it makes them do more to care for her constituents because if they ignore them, it looking more like intentional genocide.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 23:50:26 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @cjd sure, but these days the contractors are infected by bureaucracy too. Boeing can’t even get their own spacecraft back safely.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 23:50:28 JST cjd

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     Typically they buy the weapons tech from contractors and then just classify the whole thing so nobody at the contractor can see it unless they have a clearance.
     
     You can get a clearance without actually working for the military, so there's a grey area between military and private.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 23:51:45 JST cjd

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     I wonder how much of that is real, and how much is movie magic... I mean all the sudden the doors fall off of Boeing jets EVERY day? WTF?
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 23:53:21 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @cjd yeah you’re right about the planes, but I don’t think the US would destroy their aerospace industry with the starliner stuff like they did. (Then again, Germany killed all their successful car industries for no apparent reason)
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     pepsi_man (pepsi_man@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 00:08:03 JST pepsi_man

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @cjd
     I'm not convinced the Boeing stuff isn't corporate espionage.
     @lain
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 00:08:03 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @pepsi_man @cjd I believe that Boeing is bad: bureaucratic, half governmental company. The surprising thing is that airbus is better.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 00:11:14 JST cjd

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     My take is Trump = Great Reset.
     All this DEI shit is about making the average normie go hard right so that when the "solution" comes, people are gonna be like "fuck yeah, throw 'em in camps!"
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 00:12:33 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @cjd yeah we will see. If I don’t believe in socialism being possible, world conspiracies aren’t possible either, because they are both central planning. But I must admit I’m happy I moved to an unaligned country..