Selling out

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Correct about what? I said I'd never sell my soul. I'd never put myself in a position to be targeted in the first place.

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Or you know, on that tank? Game, where a bunch of specs have been disclosed.

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Dan the company man felt loyalty to the corp
After 16 years of service and a family to support
He actually started to believe the weaponry and chemicals were for national defence
'Cause Danny had a mortgage and a boss to answer to
The guilty don't feel guilty, they learn not to.

(The Irrationality of Rationality by NOFX).

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Bang on. Right there with you.

I'm working on becoming a game developer but I live in a place chock full of casinos, so looking up "games company" on a map is very disappointing here.

They can sure pay well sometimes, though. The temptation is real. But I really couldn't have any sort of passion for even sweeping their floors, much less constructing flashier products that merely serve to more-efficiently short circuit people's rational thinking into emptying their wallets.

I think the loud secret is that these "games" thrive on desperation en masse, rather than the comparatively few wealthy and "responsible gamblers."

I don't judge the plenty of good folks who make a living doing it because they need to make a living, but I'd rather struggle more towards something I can believe in that doesn't compromise my soul or contribute to ruining anybody's life.

Now if only high moral standards could pay the bills...

Oh well, I'll just keep remembering Matthew 6:26

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Thank you for this incredibly rational take.

What I personally have changed to is judging people for being gung ho about a company, happy with what the company is doing, or are they just there as a job. If you're in accounting and you just loooove working for Amazon and think they do no wrong, then yes I judge a lot

This. I'll usually get along fine with my fellow working class folks in the trenches wherever I end up, and I'll make friends with the cool managers even if they're managers.

Few people are excited to be forced into a corrupt and awful system to justify their existence.

But more often than not, they're the True Believers(TM) that are so utterly brain-warped into thinking some job actually cares about them, and make it part of their identity to "represent the brand". I give these simps a wiiiide berth.

When it's a grunt employee with that mindset, it's even more pathetic.

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Absolutely. There's a line between "willfully sold out to Evil Corp because money good and I like money lol", and "I need a job because eating is nice and they were hiring."

The original post about Lockheed makes sense, but someone's gotta be on an extremely privileged self-righteous high horse to shout "Baby killer!" at like, the dude working the lobby desk. Lol

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I think this is a big stumbling block with Lefties we need to get over, especially young and eager ones.

People want so badly to belong, but there's so much of a culture of purity-testing and pre-judgement that they're terrified of being eaten by their own for doing any wrong whatsoever.

I appreciate trying to minimize harmful impact and maximize helpful impact, but people get so hostile because someone like, buys anything, or has a job. Get over yourselves, kids.

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Exactly. The desperation is a workforce supply assurance feature, not a failing of the system as designed.

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What about open source jobs and funding? Since it seems like most of them come from either FAANG or government unless my research is wrong.

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The USA has admitted to using their own surveillance drones over Gaza, do you have a source on the USA troops or equipment firing into Gaza?

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Even if the US suddenly lost all its fighter jets, naval force, missiles and bombs. How likely would an invasion be in the next 10 to 50 years?

It is quite a big country with a big population, with a practically uninhabited and difficult to cross country in the north, and a poor drug war ridden country with significant amount of jungle in the south. To the west and east are oceans with some thousands of kilometres until the next sizable and properly inhabitated landmass.

So purely in geographics terms, invading and conquering the US is a huge pain.

Now add to it all the issues of the US dominance in global trade and the ramifications such an invasion would have.

The US doesnt need that army or MIC for defense. It is offense focused and it needs to keep murdering people all over the world to keep its wheels turning.

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That's actually just something people who sell out their morals say to make themselves feel better. There are absolutely people who don't have a price. It's not particularly many and society and those in power are generally able to deal with them in other ways, but there are in fact people who stick to their lines in regards to money.

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do you have a source on the USA troops or remotely operated equipment firing into Gaza?

Not without a security clearance.

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I don't disagree with you, especially in the short term, but Noah Smith (economist at https://www.noahpinion.blog/) does have some eye-opening opinions on the industrial might of China, and what that could mean for USA influence if China wanted to push things. (All this assumes no one uses nukes, of course.)

I'm going from memory, so errors are probably mine, not Mr. Smith's. But, basically, wrt manufacturing, China is already where the USA was during / near the end of WWII. Even if we had the tech and raw materials, the USA would not be able to up with China's factories if it came to war. They could basically just keep throwing drones and bombs at the USA until we literally ran out of anything to defend ourselves with, much less fight back with. Even if much of the rest of the world's factories were on our side.

CHIPS act is one way the Biden admin was trying to restart strategic manufacturing in the USA. We'll see how that goes.

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What? You mean the nation that funded several coups and made a mess of the middle east?

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Why? They are dead. That makes them irrelevant.

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Yes? I don't know what you're getting at

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I assumed they were trying to 1984 because...edgelord

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False equivalency, nice

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That's not what you said

You said a company would threaten someone's family to force them to work for that company. I am not aware of any time in recent history that a company has done this.

Obviously a large corporation would kill people and they do.