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The smol bean heckin democracy puppers need autonomous death robots to protect themselves from scary authoritarians 🥰 Also, bad wars is unacceptable, you need to vote to make sure we get good wars!

On one hand, unimaginable destruction of human life, on the other, lower taxes. I'm torn 🤔

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[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What kind of bio is "making the world a different place"?

Like people tend to want to make it better no? Scorching it with nuclear hellfire is different. I can make the world a better place by shooting him in the head

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

But also, throwing shit tons of money at the military industrial complex is the exact opposite of different. That’s about as status quo as it gets in DC.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Half the parts, half the production cost, and 95% less production tools means...

porky-happy "...that when we continue to charge $1,000,000 for each one, our profit margins will be way higher!"

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

Means that a chump with hots for melania can lob it into whitehouse on a cheap. adventure-time

[–] gon@lemm.ee 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I love war profiteering, actually. If you think about it, making money off of war (unfathomable human suffering) is the only moral way to profit.

The truth is simple and undeniable: it's your fault this war is happening. Not only is it your fault it's happening, it's your fault we're losing! I'm just making the autonomous death robots because you voted WROOOOONG, good luck next time, chump!

Also, I love killing people. It helps me sleep at night.

[–] NPa@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't even try to make money off weapons production, that would take away valuable resources from our brave defenders of democracy. Instead I donate directly to Raytheon and Boeing, get a tax refund from that and then donate the tax refund to Palantir

[–] NPa@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

its called Effective Altruism

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

how-compelling very interesting now please face the wall and think about rabbits

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Building an autonomous tunneling robot so the barbara-pit cuck pit can travel to the end user! Efficiency! Now get in the pit pit

[–] NPa@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The last thing you see before getting devoured by a pack of autonomous robot dogs

[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A bit of a side tract, but ffs how shitty it is that these ghouls have just taken all these words and names from lotr and use them in their imperialism to make it sound cool and good actually. Our poor good western world just fighting againts the dark lords of the world, just like Aragorn. It is nauseating because it is so deeply disingenious (unless these people believe in their own bullshit).

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, they ran out of all the cool names from the Cowboy universe like Apache and Tomahawk.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

an underappreciated milestone of the modern era is when the settler-colonialists ran out of frontier and had to start naming their weapons and technology after fictional genocides

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Because these people think of the world in terms of LOTR just like liberals think in terms of Harry Potter

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anduril means "flame of the west".

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The amount that Tolkien would HATE seeing weapons on mass death and/or surveillance take names from his work. The guy was really really not big on war

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Palantir would piss him off the most. A spy company named after the evil mind destroying crystal balls that Sauron used to subvert Gondor and hurt Pippin?

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

It's really on the nose. In the greater context the palantir were neat and useful before sauron got one, where this is just mordor producing their own

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anduril

Fake fans leaving the accent off of Andúril, these arms manufacturers I tell you they are not lore aficionados.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

I bet they don't even roll the r

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's also a trend of these guys just giving up on PR and directly coming out and saying the quiet part as loud as they'y can. I think they're all just following in Musk's footsteps and he's beginning to feel the brain rot from the hairplugs

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

There's also a trend of these guys just giving up on PR and directly coming out and saying the quiet part as loud as they'y can. I think they're all just following in Musk's footsteps and he's beginning to feel the brain rot from the hairplugs

When the better humans that claimed they just wanted all humans to be better humans for the sake of the human community get tired of saying that bullshit and just want to giggle while inflicting death and suffering through delegated means.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So the Oculus guy became a Virtual Reality obsessed Ted Faro clone? Wow. He sounds like a science fiction villain. Someone needs to do something about all these death professors.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

The good tech guys are weirdos like The Woz who have no idea how to do business and no interest in interacting with the public, so you never hear about them.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

The second bit with Mr. Nomad is much more infuriating to me than Luckey. Luckey is a ghoul but it’s typical ghoul shit: war machines, American exceptionalism, justified the two with the “threat” of Russia and China even though they’ll be inevitably used against “underdeveloped” nations no where near superpower status (which has a domestic equivalent in the creeping security state justified with the threat of terrorism but overwhelmingly used for the war on drugs).

Nomad, on the other hand, how willfully ignorant do you need to be to think efficiencies in the military industrial complex would lead to reduced government spending? When has that ever lead to anything other than more spending? This is the most brainworms part of libertarians, they simultaneously think capitalists are good for putting the profit motive above all else but then also think “good” capitalists follow this morality play version of capitalism with all these rules that go against the profit motive.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

Techbros truly are a bunch of giggling ghouls that revel in the suffering of others while putting on the airs of quirky "fluent in sarcastic" Redditors.

I hate them so much.

[–] blame@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

palmer luckey had been a fascist groyper for years. Didnt he get pushed out of oculus over something related to that…

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

A different, more explosion-filled place.

[–] BeanBoy@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago
[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

I sincerely hope these guys end up on the list

[–] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Taxes are gunna' be so low, dude.