• @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    F35 was 200B. Now it’s 2T. So I’m guessing 3T-4T for another thing we don’t need. Awesome.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Oh. It’ll work. Tax payers dollars will flow into the pockets of Trump’s billionaires. That’s the only goal here. It worked last time for the wall too. The intended mission was totally accomplished

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      It has every chance of working exactly the way the wall did since of course all it’s just a money grift.

  • IninewCrow
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    132 months ago

    Does the plan involve every American billionaire being paid to provide everyone with a golden shower

    • BmeBenji (he/him)
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      22 months ago

      I had to scroll shockingly far through these comments to find a sex joke.

      Is a “golden dome” not what happens when you try to suck off someone who gives zero shits about you before he pisses in your mouth? Because that’s exactly what it sounds like

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Yes, but you’ll have to pay for the shower. Otherwise it’s too much like getting something for free and that’s commie bullshit.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      The point isn’t to actually build the thing, the point is to send government money over to military contractor friends.

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        72 months ago

        What’s worse is I doubt even half the money will be used on the project itself, it will just be pocketed by Trump’s mates.

        You’re just paying for Yachts and Mansions.

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    2 months ago

    Trump’s Golden Dome idea is impossible. The tech and resources to defend even the contiguous 48 states against even North Korea’s level of ICBM capabilities does not exist.

    The truth is that the whole program is intended to pour federal money into the hands of the wealthy. In fact, Musk already has the lead in providing the system as of this April 17th article from Reuters. And the icing on the cake is this.

    In an unusual twist, SpaceX has proposed setting up its role in Golden Dome as a “subscription service” in which the government would pay for access to the technology, rather than own the system outright.

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    122 months ago

    Been there, done that. Remember Reagan’s bright shiny “Star Wars” that was going to end world leftism?