And who, exactly, was going to kill every last Confederate? Because it was literally not possible for the US to do so--it didn't have the economic resources to fight the war to that bitter of an end. And fascism isn't the result of some distant original sin. It's an eternal political *instinct*.

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Oh look, people on Bluesky wanting to argue about something that isn’t the point of the comment made, how novel. Muted.

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Eh, probably. But nooooo... we had to have tax cuts... fucking Republicans...

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I'm not saying you're wrong, but there's a reason by we have so many F35s and only 200 F22s. While I would not be opposed to the NGAD program succeeding, the reality is that the recent track record re: getting platforms to planned production is not great.

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Boeing flatly out engineered MD because MD specialized in corporate fuckery, pushing MD so close to failure that Boeing had the market advantage to not just propose the merger but be the one who kept their name. MD out corporate fuckeryied Boeing in the merger, and as vengeance fucked the engineers

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