Not our troops any longer.
They some anonymous billionaire's troops, now.
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Always have been, it's just more official for a little bit. Maybe it was Haliburton again.
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That’s about $100 per each of the 1.3 million active duty personnel. This news is specifically designed to elicit a defeatist response but won’t do anything for the troops.
It does not fucking matter. This is not how the US military works, and if you don't see a problem with this, then you're part of the problem.
I didn’t say I didn’t have a problem with it. I said that it was a move designed to elicit defeatism not to actually fund anything.
To me it's not about the amount though.
Me either. Which is why I pointed out that it’s designed to make you think that we have already lost. I’m really not sure what your problem is.
Fuck these pieces of shit, just pay your fair share in taxes already. Absolute dipshits.
Why would they when they can just own everything? Lol
The US now has its first privately funded military.
I think that's what this administration want us to think, but in reality
White House officials said that covering the cost of military pay for the first half of October totaled about $6.5 billion. Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst at the American Enterprise Institute
FFS, could the news media go more than two sentences without treating a right wing hack organization like a serious viewpoint, fuck
Ugh, whatever, sorry for interrupting, do some middle school level math for us Todd
Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, said that based on that figure, the new donation will cover about one-third of one day’s pay for the force.
So, yeah, this is a dumb stunt designed to get us to think they just privatized the military, but it's actually empty bullshit
They'll just sell it to Erik Prince next.
You know what is better than this "gift"? A functional tax system that actually captures and allocates what a fair share of wealth/earnings a person has or accumulates each year.
That's woke.
You're funny.
"the new donation will cover about one-third of one day’s pay for the force" Umm, OK.
Oh it won't be distributed evenly to "the force" in any way, shape, or form; it will be used to bribe a few top officers in key positions to ensure the coup progresses smoothly without military intervention.
They are paying our military to look the other way. And our military will conveniently forget about all the oaths they swore and comply.
Anonymous to us but I assume Trump knows who made the donation
Just need to see who's balls were added to the Epstein Ballroom
"Epstein's Ballroom" is what he called his boxer shorts.
Epstein ballroom just doesn't sound great. I've been trying to think of others. So far all I got is the Pedo Playhouse.
'Grifter's Paradise'?
Pedo Playhouse
That's great. But I'm juvenile.
Fascists don't care about any part of government other than military and police. If they can keep those two funded from outside sources, they never have to pass a budget or reopen Congress and the government is effectively captured by whoever pays the bill and consist only of the violence that keeps everyone obedient.
'Partially' seems a bit generous. This is a bit like when I was busking and someone dropped a 5c piece in my case. I saw that as basically littering.
In a country awash in guns, ain’t nobody got no balls.
Well, except for that one kid.
"Government for sale" going cheap...
Always most politician would sell anything they can for a plain pizza and a flat coke
"Puppies for sale. Going cheap... going 'woof'" - The Goodies And The Beanstalk
Just a random thing that pooped into my head on reading your comment :)
That's only about 1200 BTC....
So about $200 for an early miner.
Exactly, you get it. There are a bunch of people running around who got a cheat code for life-changing amounts of untraceable* money. They did nothing more than run the right software at the right time, but they think that makes them geniuses. They are pouring it into this administration right now, because our President has made it clear that he is for sale to the highest bidder.
* = yeah, I know BTC really is traceable, its security is in the math of large numbers. But anyone dabbling in BTC that early is at least smart enough to know how to maintain their anomymity.
It's not possible to maintain anonymity on bitcoin. We were especially ignorant of that in the early days.
Also, I would argue that the majority of btc early adopotes were antifascists. The capitalists came later.
You think these early adopters actually kept their moral compass after becoming bazillionaires? They're capitalists now, too.
Many people did, yes. Many others didn't, yes.
Not everyone is corrupted by money.
I'm one of them (well not a bazillionare, but I got in early enough to retire in my 30s). I spend most of my time doing volunteer work for nonprofits.
Billionaires really are just like you and me.
Can we have a military coup yet?
This bribe is to convince the military to look the other way.
This is to ensure that we won’t. Only the enforcers in this govt are being paid right now.
Well that is very nice…..keep it coming patriots…
If groceries cost us $500 per month and our government says it accepted $10 from an anonymous donor to help pay for next months groceries, what does it mean?
Like what just happened? Did they just make a joke / are they fucking with people?
Are they only funding their gestapo? Are they strategically activating specific personnel via a check, and ignoring less critical or more motivated soldiers?
It's as if someone threw some coins at the crowd just for a chance to talk about how it's the Democrats who "opted" not to pay them. I wish they more deliberately explored the "it costs billions to pay the military yet the 130 million is gonna do... something" part of the story.
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