@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSometimes I think people’s opposition (well justified!!) to war and the military-industrial complex makes them lose sight of the class dynamics in this situation:
Military service, National Guard and otherwise, is a pathway to steady pay, to health care, to something resembling the fabled middle class. The Trump crowd can treat the National Guard members as if they are disposable political props in large part because of class dynamics.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzah-hi every1!!! im just a lil military-industrial complex in a big world uwu 😊 there any leaders here who, yknow, wanna use me..... for nukes? 👉👈
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAny sort of •actual• strength is a threat to that illusion. A real strongman makes the photo cut-out look cheap, laughable.
Say what you will about US imperialism and the military-industrial complex, but the military is truly full of people who possess actual strength and discipline and do extremely difficult jobs well. It is full of people whose daily life makes a mockery of fascism’s cartoonish masculinity. And — devastating!! — many of those people are women! brown people! Black people! with all kids of bodies! who look all kinds of ways! The existence of a competent military is a threat to fascism that must be contained for fascism to spread.
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@hippyjo@c.imOver 1300 days of Russian war crimes and genocide on Ukrainians, and the west has still done nothing substantial to stop it.
Wringing your hands and asking "please" of a murderous monster yields the expected results.
Meanwhile, the military industrial complex grows richer, and Europe continues to buy Russian oil and gas.
Fuckery of the first degree.
Witness Ukraine, and understand the disgusting truth of the horror you see. This is the protection that Americ…
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageAERO-LQG: Aerial-Enabled Robust Optimization for LQG-Based Quadrotor Flight Controller
Daniel Engelsman, Itzik Klein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20888 https://
