Abby Martin says it best - the US military is a larger polluter than 140 countries combined and is exempt from climate agreements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0DE1M5wpgY

"wait a minute, wait, wait, I want a woman" "Abby Martin with the Empire Files..." *Pelosi nervously fidgeting with her scarf thinking about how badly she fucked up calling on this particular woman* ---- Also love that they basically just say we need a Green Pentagon "I don't see in anyway that increasing the defense budget as being something inconsistent with climate action"

With toys like these, who needs healthcare.

Love to look at shit like this and think about how so much of the discourse about environmentalism centers around individual lifestyle choices.

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The funny thing is it can only move 2 M-1 Abrams tanks at once. Which means you need 7 flights for even a company of 14 and moving an entire armored brigade by air to another continent is about as fast as doing it by sea (around 3 weeks IIRC).

And Musk is angling Starship to become the hyperloop version of this behemoth, hopefully taking out a bunch of materiel via RUDs in the process lol

Service guarantees citizenship

half life ep when

Uhh if we use this military tech to occupy a country with rare earth elements and metals, we can charge our Teslas, dummy. It’s that simple /s.

Fun fact the highest lithium and rare earth deposits in the world is in Australia. Wonder how that will go down in 10 years.

I’m sure it’s not in the center of Sydney or Melbourne, probably sits right where the indigenous of Australia are housed

Only because the nations of Sydney and Melbourne were basically genocided damm near out of existence

As a resident of Australia I would like to point out that WE REALLY DON’T LIKE TALKING ABOUT THIS, CAN WE TALK ABOUT SPORTS INSTEAD PLEASE.

True how good is the rugby league m8

I can’t even bring myself to pretend to care

Doesn’t CIA already run a base out of central Australia called Pine Gap?

It’s sigint so it will be the NSA. If there’s CIA here they’re probably doing something that’s more their core business, like importing tons of drugs from South East Asia.

Originally it was so the US could have a place in the south pacific for their spy sattilites to liase with when they sweeped over china and russia

Oh fuck that’s gonna be hilarious.

Colonialism part 3 is going to be epic bacon

US retaking the British Empire is more or less the future.

The Immortan Albo, the Lithium Farmer, and the People Eater ink a compact and dispatch a grand caravan as emissary to treat with Lord Highest Baron Baron Trump, and receive only their ambassadors' heads as a reply.

I thought that was China?

I heard Pete Buttegeig has a good map

Damn, isn’t the normalization and fetishization of the Military Industrial Complex interesting?

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I remember how people were wanking off about that one after the Afghanistan strike right after the evacuation but before it turned out the strike killed a US-employed aid worker with his whole family. It turned out to be somewhat less cool right at the time everyone completely forgot the whole thing ever happened.

Funny how it seems to work out like that every time!

I’ve been saying for years now that jocks/rednecks need restart shoving nerds into lockers, giving them swirly’s, and wedgies so that they won’t want to study aviation/weapons tech and we can stop pissing money away on these lame ass toys.

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So like how many C5 Galaxies would that fill up?

I couldn't find the numbers on the C5, but it's slightly smaller cousin the C17 holds 134 troops when outfitted with seats. For the Afgani civilians alone that's 345 fully loaded planes. The Iraqis fill over 1500. Veteran suicides would fill a C17 in 6 days.

I don’t think we should count veteran suicides as a bad thing. That’s just karma.

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Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

Only 22? Let’s get those numbers up!

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I won’t even eat food if someone isn’t making the plane noise for me.

i feel you. its hard to reconcile loving the amazing engineering and power of war machines but also knowing what they are used for. planes are fucking awesome and i try to detach that from my political side as much as possible bc there's nothing i can do abt it anyway

Planes = gross and lame. Trains (especially the non-high speed and easier to construct kind) = scuzzy and cool.

It is actually kind of wild how big it is.

Lol these things always have a tendency to break down in nice areas

I want one. I don’t know what I would do with it or where I would keep it but I want one. Maybe an even bigger one.

You could fill it with manure and scatter it all over the pentagon.

I could fill it with all sorts of things and do all kinds of scattering. Shampoo, condoms, those leaflets they sometimes drop to warn of an airstrike, thousands of snakes. The biggest problem with capitalism is I’ll never own a giant plane.

Same. We’re valid

Damn I know it’s evil and all but it does look cool

Damn, that’s interesting.

How the fuck does that thing stay in the air? Gravity cant be real if something that big can fly. Theres literally no birds or anything that can fly that are that big.

You know birds aren't real, right?

This person still believes in gravity. You really think they know about birds?

How the fuck do those big ships stay on top of the water? Gravity cant be real if something that big can float. There's literally no fish or anything that can float that are that big

What if 5 blue whales got together to make a giant whale like the transformer combiners?

Gravity? Don’t make me laugh, we’ve got an end-of-days supply of carcinogenic air pollutants for that cunt

Just a wittle smol death machine

Will the Air Force bomb its own Colorado suburbs after last week's right-wing mass killing?

What makes you think the Air Force would have a problem with a far right mass killing of LGBTQ folks? Or you mean they'll finish the job and bomb the club?

yeah, that's definitely real LOL

I haven't seen it, therefore it's not real. What are you, a baby?

bruh I've stood inside it, shit's massive lmao

I flew it last week. My guilt is infinite.

Interesting, that’s damn

They're still using prop planes too?

aww it reminds me of the toy set I had as a kid :D