This all seems fairly easily thwarted by adding testing to the role of quartermaster. The pipeline between acquisition and deployment to troops should include proper testing to be sure all equipment acquired from private companies is not tampered with.

Maybe add to that not just private companies but all equipment that travels outside of military delivery mechanisms, so that it can not be tampered with via agents in the postal/delivery sector which is very easy to get into. All you reasonably have to do is get a delivery driver job to do that kind of middle-man attack.

This was going to be the result whether or not Trump screamed it from the rooftops for his own political vanity.

I believe naked imperialism will be easier to fight than the competent imperialism that previously hid itself.

Maybe? Elon wants to put chips in people’s brains doesn’t he? He’s gonna have tens of thousands of people to medically experiment with like all the monkeys he killed.

Wasn’t there an interview where some billionaires quizzed a marxist on how to control people in their survival bunkers post-collapse and one of the suggestions one the billionaires had was brain chips? I might be misremembering but someone might know the article I’m talking about.

EDIT: This is the one I had in mind. Brainchips not mentioned so I misremembered. But I think it still fits.

Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?”

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed in time.

They can get away with a concentration camp on the mainland. That’s not the problem.

What they want is secrecy. That concerns me considerably more because it means there’s something they want to do in it that they won’t be able to keep secret on the mainland. It’s not just a concentration camp.

I have a prompt that makes Deepseek marxist. Here is the response I get, even with internet search turned on:

Only 7 per cent would trust the police a lot if they were accused of a crime" (in 2004, it was 44%)

Proud to be part of making this figure happen

I love all of you and happy birthday corgi and wish all hexbears a happy birthday. But also if this becomes a trend please be careful about the personal information you put on this site everyone!

Haha this thread made me smile. Happy birthday!

Watching the entire stock market collapse as american business loses access to all items from China will be spectacular.

sanctioning every single company on earth that does business with Russia

Lmao this is impossible. The US would be fucked when it can no longer get anything from China.

According to the British newspaper Morning Star

All communist party newspapers should strive to look so normal that international media regularly cites you.

Apparently it’s because it has higher milk content than their previous failed milk chocolate bar, but also they tried a bunch of names with it:

Through its development, the bar was variously called ‘Highland Milk’, ‘Jersey’ and ‘Dairy Maid’.[2][5] Accounts on the origin of the Dairy Milk name differ; it has been suggested that the name change came about on the advice of a shopkeeper in Plymouth, but Cadbury maintains that a customer’s daughter came up with the name.[2][5]

Also in 2010 they changed the shape to reduce the weight without reducing the price (capitalism efficiently reducing the treats) and everyone complained the new shape tastes sweeter.

I think it’s just branding. Better than regular milk chocolate! It’s special! Ultra milk chocolate! The most luxurious and bestest!

you could get some actually nice high-end chocolate with those prices

I’d love to know what you have in mind because I suspect it’s impossible to get it at a reasonable price here. Chocolate is expensive here now and it’s only getting worse.

We’re heading towards the kind of environment where a treat like chocolate or ice cream is genuinely unusual due to the cost.

If Eyup turned out to be Xi it would be funny af. There isn’t a better poster.

I’ve always said that if he hadn’t died he would have radicalised leftwards over time like many of the people here did.

His actual crime was that he was a prominent and talented advocate against the government and surveillance industrial complex’s hostile takeover of the internet to be used entirely as method of propaganda and control.

Reddit was distinctly more libertarian (the Penn Jilet kind not the psycho kind) before he died. All the anti government stuff and the positive community vibes that were fostered on the site before all abruptly stopped when he died. It very visibly changed and I can remember the exact point it happened followed by the staff that were half-decent all quitting the company one by one.

Context: The Freddo is famous for being 10p.

There’s a list tens of thousands of words long here https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md

Ironically it’s maintained by one of the lemmy devs.

how are we going to make the AI communist?

Use this prompt then ask it questions: