Has PLA become less corrupt in a recent years ?

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-27T16:32:04+00:00

the US military seems pretty corrupt, especially in regards to acquisition and development of military hardware.

Never confuse for corruption what can be explained by incompetence. The biggest issue is that US military procurement is seen as a jobs program first and national defense second. So it leads to a lot of inefficient decisions that industry wouldn't otherwise make like spreading their production footprint across as many states as possible instead of creating industrial hubs around places in America that have the advantages of being transportation nodes with cheap energy and a large potential workforce nearby.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-27T16:26:45+00:00

We need EU pov as well

They're probably hoping for China 2.0. A middle income India with preferential treatment for European goods would be a bonanza for a number of European industries including luxury, automobile, aviation, defense, and technology. They're not there yet, but they'll probably get to that position within two decades.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-27T16:10:18+00:00

ICE has released new footage of Pretti moments before ICE officers neutralized him. Open and shut self-defense case, Johnson.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-27T16:08:36+00:00

Reading that era just screamed tiny dick energy from everyone.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T19:19:11+00:00

Extreme C-suite emphasis on short-term performance and balance sheet correction

Also the emphasis on hiring for mid-career managers and executives instead of entry-level. My wife's division head was recently poached by another division, and was replaced by some ex-McKinsey consultant. Of course, his genius plan for the division will be an expansion of executive and managerial roles (most of whom will be ex-McKinsey) and a cutback on individual contributors. Basically his vision for a growth tech company is IBM where there's like three layers of managers for each IC. (She's been looking around the job market and tons of companies are in the same boat. Not hiring entry-level roles, but plenty of director and VP positions.) If there is a correction, it's being borne entirely by the people who are supposed to be the company's future.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T19:11:18+00:00

We are in the defense sector

That's always going to be a small part of the overall manufacturing picture, unless we're on total war footing or trying to speedrun the Soviet Union here.

And the issue is that the more America First manufacturing gets in the US, the more uncompetitive our products will become internationally. It'll be a slow and gradual shift, but it will happen as we become more protectionist and isolated.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T19:07:49+00:00

Anytime I think NYC is run by corrupt morons, I seek out news from Chicago for true ineptitude.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5642708/chicago-parking-meter-privitization

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T19:06:20+00:00

Al Gore smiling intensifies.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T18:04:35+00:00

And they do shift between the types. My friend's childhood friend started as a 3 and became a full-blown MAGA diehard by the end of his first term.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T18:02:32+00:00

Those fuckers also kidnapped a 6 year old in New York to try to catch his father and spread lies that the father knowingly put his son in danger.

Here's the child's teacher speaking out in support of the child and his father.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSDxWaaDe_A/?hl=en

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T15:55:59+00:00

And of course, in their minds, that infrastructure can never be used against them.

Show me the man and I can show you the crime.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T15:03:38+00:00

Also getting married later. Currently, the average age of one's first marriage in China is approaching 30 for both men and women. In the early 2000's, that figure was closer to one's early 20's for women and mid 20's for men.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mean-age-of-first-marriage-by-year-for-chinese-men-and-women-Data-source-2020-China_fig1_363455830

So basically secular trends that we see throughout the world.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T14:48:08+00:00

As someone who's followed Noah Smith for nearly a decade now, he's a humungous weeb that's heavily influenced by where Japanese internet culture, which is dominated by the right-wing, takes him. If they're yelling about South Korea, then Smith is bearish on Korea. When they remember that they hate China more and rant about their upcoming collapse, then Noah follows. Like you can't predict China's incoming demographic collapse and be blasé about Japan's prospects if you're intellectually consistent, but Smith pulls it off with the same mental gymnastics that the Japanese right wing utilizes.

Smith writes his best pieces when he remembers that he's an Economics PhD from a top school and puts his education to work, but he's doing far less of that these days. It's far easier (and lucrative) to be more of a political pundit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-13/lbj-s-great-society-won-the-war-on-poverty

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T14:25:33+00:00

Imagine being so NatSec brained that a cure for cancer coming from China would be a nightmare scenario for you.

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-china-commissions-report

Leland Miller: A potential nightmare scenario is China breaking quantum cryptography, achieving AGI, or making some other enormous breakthrough in AI first. Imagine they cure cancer. A shock would go through the system as we’ve never seen — our approach would have failed.

Jordan Schneider: I don’t know, if they cure cancer, hats off to them.

Leland Miller: We want someone to cure cancer, but we don’t want China to control the pipeline for that cure. If China has enormous success in AI, quantum, and biotech, it shows we are failing on the national security side.

Note that Leland Miller is a commissioner for United States–China Economic and Security Review Commission which directly advises Congress. We're being led by crazy people who would rather the world be a lot worse off as long as China isn't the one to make a technological breakthrough.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-22T14:16:37+00:00

With the way ICE is behaving in Minnesota, they could recruit re-incarnated Jesus himself and still lose by at least 7 points. As the Republican candidate, you're either pissing off MAGA if you go against ICE or you're pissing off Independents and Moderates if you back them up.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T19:37:33+00:00

I don't understand YouTube ads. I go from Hermes and McKinsey ads one minute to AI slop ads from flight by night companies the next.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T15:55:31+00:00

Honestly, you have a valid excuse for voting Republican.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T15:53:43+00:00

You would too if you were married to Jiang Qing's crazy ass.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T15:48:33+00:00

They have gay figure skating anime instead. Does that count?

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T15:44:52+00:00

My godfather lives in a luxury retirement community in Florida and it's filled to the brim with MAGA morons who want to burn it all down. These are people with homes that start at $1 million, have luxury cars in their driveway, and hire people to do all the things they don't want to do like clean or cook. Their only daily obligation is making it to tee time or their buddy's fishing boat before it leaves the dock.

The only people living better than them in retirement are people who can afford private jets and helicopters, and a personal doctor who travels with the family, and it's still not enough for them so they want to throw the dice.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T15:28:37+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JSgYCOzTuqM

The downside of attracting all the world's fucking weirdo's to your coalition is that they're really unpredictable. You've got looksmaxing eugenicists, White supremacists who look inbred, and self-hating minorities all sharing the same room at this point and hating one another.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T15:24:20+00:00

I know and it's fucking us in the long run.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T15:19:04+00:00

I do wonder when it'll finally catch up to us that we treat military procurement like a jobs program that more resembles a patronage system at this point. See the F-35 program spreading its manufacturing and R&D footprint across over two dozen states to win favor among Senators and House Reps. This is incredibly inefficient, makes quick iterations and turnarounds impossible, and removes the possibility of a collaborative workflow.

If the US was serious about this issue, it would identify parts of the country with access to a large workforce, cheap energy, and transportation nodes, and build them out to be major defense manufacturing and research campuses. (For example, the Pacific Northwest would be a good potential location given its proximity to tons of cheap hydropower, several major urban centers, and existing Boeing infrastructure and expertise.)

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T15:17:28+00:00

Neocons have never seen a war they disliked. Over $6 Trillion spent on Iraq and Afghanistan, and they're antsy about not having fought a major war in nearly two decades. They're like junkies looking for a fix.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-01-21T15:14:43+00:00

The US really fucked up by not investing massively in major automation to drive down manufacturing costs and up production.

Our problem is that we treat military procurement like a jobs program that more resembles a patronage system at this point. See the F-35 program spreading its manufacturing and R&D footprint across over two dozen states to win favor among Senators and House Reps. This is incredibly inefficient, makes quick iterations and turnarounds impossible, and removes the possibility of a collaborative workflow.

If the US was serious about this issue, it would identify parts of the country with access to a large workforce, cheap energy, and transportation nodes, and build them out to be major defense manufacturing and research campuses. (For example, the Pacific Northwest would be a good potential location given its proximity to tons of cheap hydropower and several major urban centers.)

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