Recent content by Eacaraxe

Bentham never applied any particular moral weight or reasoning to his hedonic calculus, thereby providing little consideration for distribution of outcome. The virtually limitless pleasure of Amazon's C-suite, board members, and major shareholders on the backs of a million employees is equally...

While this entire fiasco is completely idiotic...increasing funding to SBA disaster loan programs ain't it. It's a hotbed of fraud, misappropriation, and misuse. Most of this doesn't actually go to small business, but rather "small business", privately-owned high-profile and high-market cap...

Y'all remember a while back when I said shit was about to go down with regards to the economy in an election year? Well, here we go! https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-east-coast-dockworkers-head-toward-strike-after-deal-deadline-passes-2024-10-01/ Looks like the Teamsters and AFL-CIO found...

It "didn't work" because there's no purpose whatsoever to putting an L7 on a wheeled AFV that can just as well mount ATGM's, or be used as a mobile C4ISTAR center for fire support, whether that comes in the form of drones, artillery, or manned ground attack aircraft. Let alone one with an...

Yeah, how'd that work out for y'all tank-wise in World War II? Your country is only the one that invented the fucking things.

Because the Stryker platform does it cheaper, more capably, more sustainably, and to greater combat effectiveness -- to the point it was one of the contributing factors to the FCS program's demise (the others being recent production blocks of the Abrams and Bradley AFV's which did the job better...

You seem to have forgotten some context there. That "trade deal" was a free-trade agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, that committed Ukraine to EU defensive obligations as a necessary step towards eventual EU state membership, which by extension would have obligated Ukraine to...

First, the future soldier program -- and its "2030" iteration -- was a thirty-year-long, multi-billion-dollar, Pentagon boondoggle which focused on technologies that didn't make it out of R&D before becoming obsolete or proven combat-ineffective in theory as well as practice, were vastly...

Dude, what the actual fuck? Obama was one of the most hawkish presidents we've had since Nixon, unless your definition of "hawk versus dove" is simplistically reductive to "did we conventionally invade anyone during that president's administration?" Only Clinton and Bush II were more hawkish...

Well, we're two days after the debate now, and instead of literally any substantive policy issue relevant to this election, the only thing the country and media seem able to talk about is whether Haitians eat cats. You know, if anyone clings to the idea the debate was a strategic victory for...

That's a...phenomenally bad reading of the tea leaves, I'll leave it at that. First and foremost, remember Powell is a diehard Republican and has been since his Carlyle Group (yeah, that Carlyle Group)/Treasury undersecretary days. More than that, his tenure as Fed chair was initiated by Trump...

Never underestimate the ability of Very Smart People to fuck things up. We're talking about the same class of individual as those who rendered the US nuclear arsenal more vulnerable to external threat it's ever been, specifically because they modernized its controlling infrastructure away from...

You're not even going far enough in your argument on this one. Obergefell employed strict scrutiny not because of LGBTQ suspect classification, but because marriage has been found by the court to be a fundamental civil right (Loving v. Virginia). Hence why the opinion spilled ink reestablishing...

This isn't even news. They did in 2016 and 2020, too. It's all down to the neocon/paleocon slapfight that started with the tea party. The neocons got ran out of the party on a rail, so naturally they're going to ally with the faction ideologically-closest to them: conservative Democrats. Which...

Meanwhile, in the same post... Strange you've decided to snip that while trying to declare yourself victor of the thread or whatever. Let's start seeing sources for your claims. Any of them. Because all I'm seeing is a lot of deflection and unsubstantiated claims. Bush league rhetorical...