• sudo@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    We let almost all manufacturing jobs go overseas just to cut labor costs and now we’re suffering the consequences and our government completely incapable of doing what’s necessary to bring that manufacturing capability back to the US. At this point basic Keynesians economic policy is tantamount to heresy for anyone but the far left. Its like we’ve adopted the economic policies we forced on third world nations, and found ourselves with a third world economy.

    Being able to produce cheap drones as good as DJIs is far more important for national security than whatever espionage risk they pose. Cheap, easy to use, drones like the dji phantom are omnipresent in current wars. Banning them prevents us from learning via competition or basic reverse engineering.

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      6 months ago

      Its like we’ve adopted the economic policies we forced on third world nations, and found ourselves with a third world economy

      Foucault’s boomerang at work, just like US counter insurgency tactics now being employed by US police.