The arms industry wants to get contracts for dumb, infeasible shit that will never work. It's almost hostile to new orders of JDAM kits or artillery shells. Critical to understanding the American political economy
I think we're eliding the difference between defense contractors (run by idiots, wants eternal R&D money pits) and firearms manufacturers (run by ghouls, wants to sell the child-mulcher 700 to insecure conservatives).
But like at least part of the US arm industry just want to be Nazi Germany post 1942 prototyping wunderwaffe rather then being part of what won that war and win wars, being part of a militaro-industrial complex being able to produce high quality stuff at scale and for cheap
Also worth remembering that the terms of a government procurement contract are *far* more favorable than what you can get by raising money from investors. SpaceX exists because they realized this was true of launch contracts
And also tied up within that for the major primes of being directed to do major new projects from the start at fixed price contracts rather than any kind of cost plus.
It's also kinda 1:1 with the tension in tech. You want to be throwing capital at growth opportunities (dumb shit that will never work (but we'll pull it off ofc)) and there's little reason to speculate on production of cheap shit, even when it's a better use of money
dissent on israel/palestine stuff is literally the preferred allegation for gulaging people already, the only way this won't have an impact is if their ability to use that wedge is already maxed out
I think that was coming anyway and we do kinda need a more serious federal response to anti Jewish hate crimes but I don’t expect anything good to come out of this administration.
Idk to me the attempts to make “special” types of crimes that justify more resources/less protection of civil rights of defendants/stronger punishments has, in my lifetime anyways, pretty much always lead to those enhancements being weaponized.
More of a ping for the future than an event that will cause anyone in the US to do differently, and I hope I'm right because I know who would change if the shooting changed anyone's behavior
One of the effects of the multi-decade rightist terrorism campaign in the US is that these kinds of things only matter in the heads of liberals, and then only when their thought leaders make a production out of condemning them. This is just normal in America, it wasn't even a mass shooting.
One day, when the histories are written they will say things like "There is much dispute over the start date for the American Years of Lead, indeed even the decade is unclear. Estimates range from the 1990s through 2016. Some estimates even place it as late as 202_, with the beginning of Alabama's
I don't know, but I doubt any were politically motivated assassinations, let alone killings of staffers of a foreign embassy. That really does affect how newsworthy it is.
At first I thought it was a bombing because of how people were talking about "a return to terrorism" but I'm terribly sorry if it's crass to say, a shooting in the US doesn't really feel like that sort of impact
It will 100% be used to justify things they were already going to anyways. The baseline was genocide and gulags for dissenters, I think you’d need an OKC bombing level event to move the needle further right
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But like at least part of the US arm industry just want to be Nazi Germany post 1942 prototyping wunderwaffe rather then being part of what won that war and win wars, being part of a militaro-industrial complex being able to produce high quality stuff at scale and for cheap
It's more-so I'd argue in that they like actual stable stuff to a degree, and not so much like authorizing project, start work, project termination.
See the Patriot act and the concept of terrorism.
So yeah, it already has an impact.
If he had used a bomb or knife on the other hand it would be treated as real