http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Text_HTML/2020_sessions/RS/bills/hcr8%20intr.htm

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so guess who the Defense Industry's pick for president is

Well, I can estimate it based on who the Big Four (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics) donated most to

and would you believe me if i said they're putting their money behind Sanders?

The world revolution will be armed with M1A3s, NGSWs and LWMMGs.

apparently.

and sl ing tomahawk missiles launched from B21s.

or something like that

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=d000000104&cycle=2020

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=d000000100&cycle=2020

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000000165&cycle=2020

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000000170&cycle=2020

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000000175&cycle=2020

raytheon is the fucking scary one

they're the one that handles surveillance tech.

admittedly this isn't much money compared to the rest of what he's getting

but he was second only to clinton (and only Cruz matched him) for defense industry-originating donations in 2016

@Gaylien Put away your Echoes, you're wrong this time.

Warden, KEnnedy, Calhoun, Novakovic, Hewson

And the Kennedy in question has no relation to the politicians.

@Three Bottle Barnes well, for one, these companies have fingers in other pies. And could stand to make a shitload of money off Bernie's other programs. Never mind piggybacking off his "revolution" to their own gains.

Raytheon is famous for the missiles, but it also handles drones and shit that can be easily turned to surveillance.

Hey, paying off someone so you can build a factory there isn't uncommon. Sanders was an F-35 supporter back when the F-35 was looking like it was going to get canned like the Comanche.

XM8 also got cancelled a while back

the new shit is this 6.8 caliber thing they're doing a competition for

it's down to SIG, Textron, and General Dynamics.

RIP G11

yes but I don't think the US can force it on the rest of NATO.

France just bought HK416s, Britain just cleared HK to upgrade the L85 to the A3 model.

And the US Marines just bought the M27 IAR (aka a rebranded 416)

idk; GD has a lot of clout in the Army's machine so if I were a gambling man I'd say they were going to grab it.

that and GD is also running the LWMMG to replace the M60/M240

so if GD pulls this off we'll be using 6.8 and .338.

on the one hand >GD's rifle is a bullpup

on the other >GD already has contracts in teh US Military (see: M1A3/M1A2 SEP v4)

Fortunately his attempts to disarm Virginia failed.

How to turn an Anarchist into a Stratocrat:

Subject them to the potential threat of actual anarchy

telling people who they can and can't have kids with (on the condition that, you know, they actually raise said kids, and their partner isn't related or some shit) doesn't seem like it should be a function of a state.

don't states have better things to do, like ensure a standard of education and defense of its citizenry from foreign and domestic threats?

honestly i would prefer people actually raise their kids.

i attribute the current crime statistics to black daddies being in prison or dead or having kids as a result of hook-ups than i do to the race of said dad.

especially since black people used to have a _higher_ marriage rate than whites.

i attribute it to the fact that they were given a shitload of monetary assistance that supplanted the father as the breadwinning figure.

people being too eager to immediately spring black people into the same economic standing as white people probably set them back on it massively because they didn't actually build into it.

see: when poor people win the lotto

the white man's burden is the worst thing to happen to black people tbh.

and has probably lead to an undue demonization of "acting white" (wanting a higher or better education and a stripe of industriousness) on the basis of the majority of white people they interact with basically talking down to them.

like

i'm a fucking native american, aight?

if some guilty white guy offered me help jsut because of that

i'd be fucking insulted

i prefer redskin but that one's technically a slur.

no, i am one

well

i see it as an expression of my patriotism to my adoptive nation

native ***AMERICAN***

@nimble_newt it's more like a crapshoot because American Indians/First Peoples/etc are actually about as varied as Europeans or Africans.

hell, i might not even have that particular quirk in common with the rest of the chickasaw.

honestly

person of color seems like it should be the most degrading bullshit.

like it's just a re-ordered "colored person"

I know right?

part of me is glad i don't put myself in situations where i would potentially be called this shit, right?

because i feel like i'd whip around by calling the other person a palefaced colonial

i mean you're an american ain't you?

well yeah, but you say that like i have a shot at it myself

and i was born just outside atlanta before moving to oregon when i was 2

i was like, 2 when we left.

apparently that's where my mom became afraid of spiders lol

well the company my dad worked for at t he time wanted him in oregon so we moved

i definately want to visit the SE US at some point tho

just stay out of portland if you come to oregon

i fuckin hate stumptown <:pain:398952072751480832>

i don't even live there

i'm just downstream from it's bullshit

salem is alright, but that's because it's a city that grows out instead of up.

well, used to be, at least

not sure about bend; not been that way in a while

note i'm like, 26 and spent most of my life in the willamette valley

there are a lot of neat tourist traps around tho

at least there used to be