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  • We let almost all manufacturing jobs go overseas just to cut labor costs and now we’re suffering the consequences and our government completely incapable of doing what’s necessary to bring that manufacturing capability back to the US. At this point basic Keynesians economic policy is tantamount to heresy for anyone but the far left. Its like we’ve adopted the economic policies we forced on third world nations, and found ourselves with a third world economy.

    Being able to produce cheap drones as good as DJIs is far more important for national security than whatever espionage risk they pose. Cheap, easy to use, drones like the dji phantom are omnipresent in current wars. Banning them prevents us from learning via competition or basic reverse engineering.
















  • sudo@programming.devtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldUnprovoked
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    2 months ago

    So they used violence against Palestinian people

    What the fuck are you even referring to? Putting down the Fatah coup? How dare they defend Palestinian democracy.

    and only accepted a small portion of the vote

    Again, what are you referring to? The election was internationally accepted as free and fair.


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    2 months ago

    used political violence and only a small portion of the population to gain power

    Made up bullshit that I literally just disproved with George Fucking Bush agreeing that they won the election fair in square.

    Terrorist organization

    They said the same thing about the ANC and Nelson Mandela. Do you know where South Africa stands on this issue?


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    3 months ago

    and were not even elected, they literally just took control


    The Palestinian legislative election took place on 25 January 2006 and was judged to be free and fair by international observers.[18][19] It resulted in a Hamas victory


    They’re thugs, they don’t represent Palestinian, but by giving credence to their organization


    Literally the most popular political party in the West Bank and Gaza.


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    3 months ago

    This is so factually incorrect its blatant racist propaganda.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council

    Hamas is a political party that electorally seized control of Gaza in in 2006 from Fatah, Yasser Arafat’s party. Fatah rebelled against Hamas in 2007 and lost. Yet Fatah is still has 45 seats to Hamas’ 72 on the PLC.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)

    Nice little excerpt for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)#2006_Palestinian_legislative_election

    The Palestinian legislative election took place on 25 January 2006 and was judged to be free and fair by international observers.[18][19] It resulted in a Hamas victory, surprising Israel and the United States, which had expected their favoured partner, Fatah, to retain power.[20] On 27 January, US President George Bush said “the landslide victory of the militant Islamic group Hamas was a rejection of the “status quo” and a repudiation of the “old guard” that had failed to provide honest government and services”.[2]

    That last line from Bush is surprisingly correct. Hamas is effectively the Palestinian branch of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Their primary tactic is actually charity work by feeding the abundant poor people of Gaza and radicalizing them from there.