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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My favorite instance of this was the US Army begging congress not to buy more Abrams tanks because they were already too expensive to maintain but congress overruling them and ordering them to buy more to keep the factories open.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

frothingfash "Please, whatver you do just don't make us-

the-republican the-democrat"-Buy more Abrams, great idea, yes!"

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Abrams printer go brrrrrrrbrrrrrrrrrrrr

[–] Fuckass@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

99% of the resistance to doing anything good is because the current bad thing provides jobs for like 500,000 people and no one wants to make an effort to help those people

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Just like the coal industry.