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[–] [email protected] 40 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you think of any other types of people who might be financially able to volunteer their time here....?

Maybe those who have a vested interest in any number of outcomes that may result from their work there...?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe you don't remember Jeff Sessions.

Matt Gaetz could bring another dozen or so, 17 year girls across state lines, and still not reach the scale of evil contained within Trump's former OG AG Keebler.

That's my point. The best you can hope for is someone who also dipshit maxes, hard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Let's be real, he cleared the bar with this one.

Don't forget, the bar was set at Jeff Sessions, and it was even lowered to the doofus who ran the patent protection scam company.

Look, he's not going appoint anyone that isn't awful. The most you can hope for, the best outcome, is favourable funny > evil mix.

I'm comfortable saying that Matt Gaetz, on the grading curve necessary for Trump appointments, clears that bar. He's has at worst a 51% funny to 49% evil ratio.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Impressive.

Only one of those words is actually English, and you still managed to use it incorrectly.

Unless it was an extremely misplaced and subtle nod to Alanis Morissette.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Stop trying to police language.

Jokes need only to be judged on if they're funny, or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Operational targets can't all just simply be moved further and further back from the front lines of a conflict, to say nothing of high value tactical targets.

Supplying several hundred low observable air launched cruise missiles per month would absolutely make a significant difference on the battlefield, that's not even a question.

But that doesn't mean I believe that would enough to cause Putin to reverse course, or to deliver a strategic defeat to the Russian army.

Regardless, Germany doesn't have that manufacturing capacity to begin with, nor do I believe they have the political will to do that, even if it were possible, but again, it is not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I understand exactly what it is. What I'm saying is that Germany does not have the volume on hand, or the manufacturing capacity to produce such a volume, where it could generate the effect the candidate is implying it can.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Capability and capacity are two very different things.

Yes, I understand the manufacturing capability exists, but it's capacity is limited i.e. existing facilities could not maintain a strategically significant production volume relative to Ukraine's needs, much less to deter Putin.

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