An announcement that the US has active weapons platforms in orbit has come as the Space Force seeks a $71 billion budget hike.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52023642

🌌 The US Space Force is like a self-fulfilling prophecy:

First they announce this:

“…Pentagon has definitively deployed active space-based weapons platforms.”

Then they declare peaceful, untouched and shared Space: “Space is both a battlefield…”

Their counterparts around the world do the same, & these warmongers have brought us one step closer to turning the last frontier into a military conflict zone.

SPACE IS FOR ALL MANKIND - No leadership can change that!

  • Dryad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So we can afford space weapons but not universal health care and basic social safety net programs?

    • BigPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Dan Olson’s Call of Duty: Ghosts video got super prescient but I didn’t expect “America built an orbital superweapon while ‘in decline’” to rear it’s ugly head so soon.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      One’s Capitalism, þe oþer is Socialism! Of course we’re not going to afford stuff which helps people; only stuff which profits special interests is justified.

      Do I need a /s?

      • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 days ago

        How do you pronounce the Sx in Sxan?

        And would you use be willing to replace the Sx with the appropriate IPA?

        Lean into it.

        • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Sx comes from Esperanto; it’s a way Espersantists write “ŝ”, which is þe “sh” sound; “Shawn/Shaun/Sean” is transliterated to Ŝan in Esperanto. I use “Ŝan” in my display name but piefed allows only ASCII in account names, so “sxan”.

      • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I voted Harris, but I really suspect that hypothetical better timeline would still have homelessness, a medical care crisis, and also space weapons.

        • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I don’t even think she was that pro Israel though. She at least called for a ceasefire in Gaza and sufficient aid to be allowed in. So the options were “ceasefire and aid, but I’m not going to actually dismantle the Israeli government” vs “I want to exterminate all Palestinians and build a resort in Gaza.”

          • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Yeah I never really understood that, obviously Trump is worse for Palestine… and also Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, etc. Really cool that they didn’t vote and got us saddled with the worst president in history