hm... interesting, i think i told you before that americans were better at propaganda than they are at actually making weapons. I would keep silent about it to your friend, since it's already too hard, but i keep silent in not so serious matter like for example a brazilian artist trying to do a manga. Also thanks for the explanation of the "fucked-upnesss" acronyms, i was going to google that
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I've kept things others have told me to myself more than once...that was the second thought I had. Every so often people want to tell me all about themselves for some reason, though I rarely ever ask (& don't need to know, more often than not).
"Silence is a friend who will never betray you." - old Sicilian proverb
Thinking I should hand-letter that at some point...
As for "Americans are...", that's a bit vague. We're great at manufacturing small arms, that I guarantee you--especially these days. Our firearms industry has been around for over 1.5 centuries now; the skillsets & overall knowledge have been going up the whole time. In terms of military weaponry, however, the situation is complicated....
We COULD make great fighter jets, tanks, APCs, etc. if we wanted to, but defense contractor firms always charge at max level when drawing up manufacturing deals with the government. Profiteering is nothing new; there were instances of that during our Civil War! They make their ships & other things so costly that our armed forces cannot afford to buy what they need for adequate force projection...thus the maintenance of aging vehicles & ships, as outlined above. Congress is also to blame as it has not been fiscally responsible since forever...that story has been told many times. Books have been written about it. I own one but haven't read it yet. Congressmen like to spend like drunken sailors on their pet projects (because it helps them stay in office), which leaves less money for other functions the government needs to fulfill. Social Security is slated to run out of money by 2035 if I'm not mistaken...not completely, but the way it's going, if nothing is done then by 2035 it will only be able to cover maybe 79% of all retirement & disability claims at most.
Haha if hes in the military then he knows. Especially if hes a mechanic. Everyone knows how nightmarish the upkeep is on all US armor and vehicles. When we ditched the middle east and gave, i think it was isis, a bunch of shit left behind nobody cared. They posted a picture of their "army", a whole bunch of humvees, helicopter, trucks, guns... the funny part is that all of that shit was gonna be unusable soon anyway, they dont have mechanics! Especially in such an unfriendly environment to mechanical things like the desert. US equipment needs fixing so frequently, and its always so difficult, its a wonder we even have a military.
Hmmm..."everyone knows", eh? Were you in the service? You don't have to give specifics if you don't want to; a simple yes or no will suffice.
@ShadenLines .......nnnooooooooo...
"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you"...okay, got it.
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If anyone doesn't know the acronyms near the bottom of the post:
SNAFU = Situation Normal: All Fucked Up
TARFU = Things Are Really Fucked Up
FUBAR = Fucked Up Beyond All Repair
Those are the three levels of fucked-upness.