this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
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This except instead of just capitalists, include all of the people abusing their positions of power.
Owners and their regime whores...
this is how you get terminators.
Or at the very least PMCs with too much freedom.
- NYT: How to Invest in the Military-Industrial Complex
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Good info!
😂 😭 Honestly, this is the secondary market. The investments were made long ago by the 1%, before retail investors even had the “opportunity.” You’re not going to influence them one iota through your individual decision to not buy their securities on the secondary market. I wouldn’t buy these because they’re viscerally repugnant, but also because I only invest in broad index funds, much like Bogleheads. And that means I’m already indirectly invested in them.
The THAAD deployment is extremely vulnerable to the drone attacks used by the resistance. It is hard to see this as anything other than bait, a dare, a threat to involve the US even more if the system is destroyed with bombs - which would also kill the people nearby.
Surface-Air-Missiles to prevent Lebanon and Iran from defending themselves, not to shell cities.
Each missile cost ~16 million. An entire battery costs 1.6 billion.