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   Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta (kalogerosstilitis2revengeofthejunta@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 03:29:41 JST Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta

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   @Sovereign @cjd You can't make high end weapons without a good base iq population, then a good education system from early on. Russia and china succeed where western technology fails because its scientists and engineers are mostly white(Russia) and some asians and chink for china and then grew up and went through an educational system that is demonstrably better than the western one. You can't educate shitskins but even high iq people without proper education from childhood will not be able to build space weapons and hypersonics. So the corruption of western education is very serious. And the bulk of it is from the left.
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     Sovereign (sovereign@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 03:29:40 JST Sovereign

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     @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @cjd Yeah I definitely wouldn't disagree with that. But I hope the point I'm making is also understood. Education is a very long wavelength type of thing that takes a long time to produce results, both negative or positive. Military is more in your face with selling something that is price gouged to the government by 100x. I'd argue its similar to healthcare more than education. Education I don't think is selling a pencil for $100 but hospitals will charge insurance $50 for a single Advil.
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     Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta (kalogerosstilitis2revengeofthejunta@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 03:29:40 JST Kalogerosstilitis2RvngotJunta

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     @Sovereign @cjd I understand. I personally believe its dei mostly and failing education standards seconds. However you have to consider the fact that education in American/western countries rotted way before we might think it did. Also for American education specifically, as i understand it, they actually do "sell a pencil" for a hundred bucks in the sense that only the rich or people who will condemn themselves to half a lifetime of debt will get a "decent" degree worth anything.
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     Sovereign (sovereign@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 03:30:11 JST Sovereign

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     @cjd @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta How are Democrats the only ones making money on their entire sector? I don't get it. I hate both parties with a passion. Making a hammer isn't that expensive though. It just becomes expensive when all manufacturing is abandoned for China (basically what you said). There is the manufacturing cost that is increased, but there really is a "just because we can" price gouging aspect. Military insiders have pointed that out more than a few times over the years.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 03:30:11 JST cjd

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     Democrats took over education grift, Republicans took over war grift. IDK why that kind of sorting happened but that's just how it ended up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 03:30:12 JST cjd

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     > Education I don't think is selling a pencil for $100
     
     Right, it's a different form of corruption, but it's the same in the end. If you double the school budget, nobody gets any smarter but the democrats have almost twice the campaign budget. And all of their professional protestors and activists somehow have jobs...
     
     Corruption in military stuff is also more subtle than you'd think. Everyone has heard about the $100 hammer, but that doesn't really exist. What does exist is maybe a $25 hammer, because every part of it must be made in the US by a defense certified company out of defense certified materials. But again, nobody is really making bank off of this because actually making a hammer yourself (can't buy it from China) is kind of difficult.