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bardamu's avatar

What a world of metaphor, when "poking the panda" equals "screwing the pooch."

The worry is that US hegemony remains dependent on war tech made in Taiwan. The US could get this done in Carolina, too, but there's a learning curve and labor problems.

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Riff McClavin's avatar

Congress diversifies weapons production to different congressional districts to assure local support as a jobs program. It's actually pretty clever, if you take the wasteful moral horror out of it.

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