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i want the same thing but the presidency is not like a CEO they have to be able to sway people to go along with their vision both in the population and in Congress.

 

How can we afford these things when defensive contractors charge the DOD 1500 dollars for clutch disks that cost 32 dollars to manufacture?

Priorities right. Gotta line the pockets of our brave defense contractors.

 

Well, no that doesn't follow. You don't have to have a 100% open border policy to not hold migrants. You can give them a court date and maybe even an ankle bracelet and send them on their way. Detention is something the government chooses to do, and moreso with the Trump Admin.

On your larger point, I mostly agree. If migrants are going to be detained regardless, with or without beds, there is an argument that it would be better to sell the beds to the camps so they'll have them. At the same time, Trump's detention policy is enabled by the concession of bed sales and everything else to make the detention system work. A general boycott would force -- through the suffering of migrants -- the whole system to collapse and a different solution found so much the sooner. The Trump Admin, like it does with everything else, counts on the goodwill of other people to get the beds provided so they can do whatever bad stuff they want and have others bear the costs. So maybe in a small sense, those who deny the beds to avoid complicity are right in a small sense, wrong in a larger sense that they thereby inflict suffering, but right again in a different larger sense of resisting authoritarianism. It's not my preferred solution. My preferred solution is to throw the bums out. But, that's taking a while.

 

Such a man of the people. Truly salt of the earth.

 

that's a fair point, but you're talking a complete and radical overhaul of the system--hard to change boats mid-ocean. (that's a Neurath's boat image). But you're right, there's nothing magical about detention.

which reminds me of Ursula LeGuin's story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

 

So you are going to try to convince a mechanical engineering grad student and someone who's fought overseas that the DOD needs to spend 1500 dollars on a clutch disc that cost 32 dollars to manufacture in bulk of 149 units?

You do understand I included the cost to manufacture the clutch disc by TransDig, the supplier?

 

I defer to your superior knowledge

 

Thank you.

 

military purchasing would be a very interesting topic for a separate thread, actually.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/01/business/high-cost-of-military-parts.html
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-mili...uch-compared-to-comparable-civilian-equipment


pretty complicated problem to tackle

 

Wouldn't want to take away from your riveting memes now would we?

 

Why is this in a thread about Democratic candidates?

 

So you are just trolling.

This will be the election that political contributions will have the least effect.

But at least his team will be well paid.

 

Okay...

 

The fact trump is able to fund raise so much shouldn't be a surprise. He is the republican candidate, so he will have an advantage with rich people and wealthy PACs (the Democratic candidates have rejected corporate PACs). He also has the advantage of being the incumbent,where as the Democratic primary candidates have to split dollars amongst the large number of candidates. Add to that trump has been campaigning for re-election since 2016 (Obama started his re-election campaign until after two years), so he has had a two year head start on the Democratic candidates.