At this point, trump is just accelerating the military industrial complex eating itself. The whole bullshit with the embarrassingly openly corrupt SIG Sauer deal for a new rifle platform, Lockheed absolutely dragging their ass in deploying the F35, weapons manufacturers in a race to cram as much expensive bullshit as possible in their missles and “smart bombs”, the consolidation of suppliers making fewer points of failure in logistics, etc. Hell, I can only think of one and a half things the us military has done recently that actually make some form of sense: that new Vortex scope is actually kinda cool af, and the F35 program is actually a good idea with decent hardware, just absolute bullshit execution, though. In any case, already not looking great with the wildly unnecessary transition to a new rifle cartridge and compounding supply issues.

Then there’s trump.

All those super expensive missles we already have trouble scaling up production of? All gone. Don’t worry, the contractors are gonna make a killing on resupplying those shits.

Ability to use allied countries for resupply? lol, byeeeeeee

Wasting military resources on bullshit political theater? You better believe it!

Trying to bring back naval warships that have been obsolete since fucking World War 2? Well, here we are.

Ah yes, the sign working as intended.

Punk means thinking for yourself.

Thinking for yourself, you recognize “hUmAn BaD” is a narrative sold to divide us and keep us consuming and complacent.

We’re told our very nature is selfish greed and it’s actually a good thing.

Fuck that shit. Go make some friends for free.

Yeah, looks like the dude is a troll and a straight-up dipshit. They unintentionally did you a favor.

Thanks trump/DOGE/Congress. God, doge cutting funding for border cattle inspections right as Mexico was dealing with a surge was beyond stupid. And they’re trying to cut more staff at the USDA? Jesusfuck, this is so fucking stupid. With Canada restricting imports from Texas, they’re doing more to contain this literal plague than the US government, and, unfortunately, Texas is dependent of the federal government to respond appropriately.

Broooo, the CCP is merely adding capitalist modes of production alongside socialist ones! The CCP only needs billionaires in the party to compete in the world as it is, bro! Bro, it’s not CCP labor exploitation if we’re letting foreign corporations do it! Actually, it’s the foreign corpos doing slave labor in Xinjiang, we’re just trying to educate them about how much they love it here, bro! Bro, it’s socialism when the government owns the means of production, because the state says it’s for the workers! Bro, how can you call it genocide when whataboutism??? Also bro, something something Russia for some reason DECADES after they stopped pretending to be communist. North Korea landed on the sun, bro.

Sorry, I would reply, but it appears that what you’ve typed is illegible…

Oh neat, treason!

Boy does that sum up about half of lemmy users. “nObOdY iS dOiNg AnYtHiNg!” Motherfucker, go outside, people are doing plenty to make up for your pessimistic, unengaged ass.

Well, there was that one time they got their shit kicked in in Sudan. So like, they know something at least. Which, tbf, that was with blue helmets, so does it really even count?

Hoo boy, I think his head is looking much like a dress right now yo the British. Might look better on the floor.

No one is making that argument here. Autocracy is on the rise globally. In fact, the article is effectively making the opposite argument in mentioning the US falling so far in the rankings, as that would mean the US is part of what is dragging down the press freedom average globally. The article even specifically names Trump as the cause of American press freedom dropping.

So like, seriously, wtf are you even talking about?

Yes, global. Autocratic movements are making a big push the world over, not just in America. Wtf are you even talking about?

Holy shit, 100% agreed, no notes. GenAI ain’t the problem, it is but a symptom of a fucked up system.

Man, I truly can’t be happier with my upgrade to Linux(CachyOS). I even went on to replace my bullshit-ass Eero router with my own hardware running OpenWRT. I’m looking into dropping android as well to continue chasing that high.

I never understood why conservatives would get so bent out of shape and adamant about this. Like, just because the nazis were right wing and conservatives are right wing, that doesn’t mean conservatives are nazis. Edgy 13 year olds will make that generalization, not a serious person.

Fun fact, same deal with the title “Lucifer” which is the bright morning star, symbolizing divinity. It’s another transliteration, this time from Latin, that was erroneously applied as the proper name for Satan. In the book of revelation, Jesus refers back to Satan proclaiming himself as lucifer in the old testament and then corrects him by stating that it’s Jesus who is the true Lucifer. Not exactly as impactful as the transliteration of “baptismo”, but still another regrettable entry of pop Christianity being real dumb.

Well, the DOJ has the ATF and DEA. Officially they’re only supposed to be domestic, but scoff what are a few federal and international laws gonna do?