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Picture shows a pride parade. A group of people are carrying a banner that says "LOCKHEED MARTIN" over a rainbow graphic.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So corporations backed by tax dollars get to sell to anyone?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Swing and a miss. Try going in the opposite direction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So only the American government can sell Lockheed martin arms? Then the corporation is no longer liable for any harm their weapons cause since they have no power or agency in how they are used. Are you really sure you know your position here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow. I genuinely don't know how you managed to come up with that, it's genuinely impressive.

Try: "Manufacturing weapons of war for profit when you can't guarantee that they won't end up in the wrong hands is unethical and war profiteering corporations should not exist."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wow. It is more unethical to not manufacture weapons leaving your society completely defenseless. Don't know what planet you live on , but bad people exist and they seek to do harm and must be stopped with weapons. You can't tell them to go away with rainbows and lollipops like you seem to think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

yes, neutral countries defend your point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don’t know what planet you live on , but bad people exist

And Lockheed Martin is giving them weapons, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So democracy is to blame? Get the fuck off your high horse. Is absolute idealism is unrealistic and frankly childish. Go graduate college and get back to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So democracy is to blame?

Again, absolutely bizarre takes. Just incredible how completely unrelated these responses are to anything I'm saying or any coherent line of thought.

You're treating it as if Lockheed Martin just, inherently ought to exist, that it would be impossible for them not to exist. They do not.

Since you seem to be struggling to understand how that could possibly be, I'll tell you: nationalization. The government should seize control of all assets belonging to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing (ideally, the CEOs and upper management should be deported to Afghanistan to face justice), no one should be able to make a profit from it (aside from wages), they should not be able to have lobbyists, and there should be no ability to go from war profiteer to policy maker deciding what wars to start or vice versa.

But if you want to lick the boots of warmongers who cause bloodshed for the sake of corporate profits, I guess I can't stop you. But what I can say is that, as a queer person, I completely reject their performative "support" and have no desire to be associated with them in any way, and that they can take their pride flags and shove them up their ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My responses are to show the logical conclusions to your asine statements that make no sense.

Yes. I believe arms manufacturers must exist. How else does a people defend themselves? Strongly worded letters?

You think the state should have a monopoly on defense production? That's a recipe for stagnation and disaster.

I glad you don't own "queer" because your purity test is ridiculous. Let these people be. If they want to March in pride with Lockheed flag, let them do it. They aren't hurting anyone.

You should be thanking Lockheed marting for helping to provide the very freedom you are using to bitch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You should be thanking Lockheed martin

I sincerely hope that you one day find yourself on the receiving end of what you support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's an interesting assumption.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You just hoped that was on the receiving end of a lethal defense weapon. That's no assumption. That's a death threat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, if you told me you hoped I was on the receiving end of what I support, I wouldn't see it as a threat. Maybe you should try supporting better things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn't say that. I was pointing out flaws to your position and hoping to change your mind. You however, went straight to my death, which is uncalled for and little scary. Why do you feel the need wish people death?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I only wished for you to receive the consequences of what you support. If that's death, then I'll turn the question back to you: why do you feel the need to wish people death?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Please point to where I advocated for death? I didn't. You did. Specifically, my death. What compels you to want my death?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I literally only advocated for you to get what you're advocating for. Your conclusion that that means I was calling for your death only makes sense if you were advocating for death yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Im advocating for a strong national defense aided by private enterprises. You wanted me dead. Big difference. Why do you send death threats?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Why do you see being on the receiving end of "a strong national defense with private enterprises" as a death threat? Were you advocating for killing people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You didn't answer my question at all and are avoiding the horrible statement you made with a non sequitur. I will accept an apology from you if you make one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

National defense is a life and death affair. You know this. Then you wanted me dead for my opinion. I never wished you harm. You however want me dead. Would you like to retract those words?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Absolutely not. You deserve to be treated the way you want for others. If you support a system that kills hundreds of thousands of innocent people in a decades-long occupation following an unprovoked war of aggression, then, well, you do the math on what you deserve.

Anyway I would think you'd be thanking me for what I said. You just told me I should be "thanking Lockheed Martin," so surely to be on the receiving end of what they do is something you should be grateful for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So you get to call for people's deaths you disagree with? Seems like you enjoy an authoritarian hellscape. I treated you with dignity and respect. I disagreed with you and tried to argue my point, but you don't seem to respect my value as a human and you called for my extermination over a disagreement. How can you have such a flawed value system. You don't value life at all if you're so quick to call for death of people you disagree with.

Please see the attached graph showing the reduction of poverty under american hegemony thanks to american defense keeping trade open and no large state on state conflicts. Global birth rates have also been increasing rapidly. Thanks Lockheed martin for maintaining the peace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Lol! Three quarters of poverty reduction since the 80's was in China. "American hegemony" my ass.

Again, I hope the "defense" industry does to you what you want it to do to others. And I hope you have enough time to really appreciate it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Guess you never heard of the great leap forward or Mao Zedong. He did a number on the chinese population.

More death threats?! What's wrong with you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Guess you never heard of the great leap forward or Mao Zedong. He did a number on the chinese population.

Hmm not familiar, does he have anything to do with this though?

What’s wrong with you?

What's wrong with you? Why did you choose to become a bloodthirsty, bootlicking imperialist? Why do you support mass slaughter for profit that you won't even see, that will only go to the super rich parasites who are actively making life worse for the rest of us?