If you ride the subway in Washington DC there are posters advertising anti-aircraft systems and other military contract products right next to the ads for car insurance and chewing gum and it's so fucking weird.
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Huh... perhaps I should buy myself a few anti-aircraft batteries, you never know what home invaders can come up with ig
Bro if you're in the market, you've gotta check out Conksat's offerings they've got some absolutely unmatched products like Missiles As A Service, next generation bombers based on the bleeding edge Cessna platform, and even a ground based satellite power system with integrated return reel!
Own a Phalanx CIWS for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended.
Tally ho lads
Maybe like 10 years ago, someone did a regression analysis to see which stations were most expensive to advertise in, when corrected for actual ridership starting or ending their train rides swiping in and out at those stations. For the most part, most stations' advertising prices pretty closely matched the number of riders, with the clear outlier of the Pentagon station.
I can't find that article anymore because Google search turned into dog shit, but this more recent article basically covers the contours.
Wait fr? Thats a normal thing in the USA?
in and around the central hub for all us lobbyists and politicians it is.
Is this a satire community?
This is certainly not a real tweet that you posted.
Around DC where many DoD entities exist. I doubt it's like that in many other places
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Thats crazy
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On top of the other obvious complaints, I think that nobody in their right mind would compromise the performance of an antiaircraft missile to make it relatively less polluting.
I'm sure it's not even green in any meaningful sense but just slightly greener than the others (if that's even true). Not that that would really make a difference either way.
kinda like using a swab to clean the spot where the needle goes… before giving someone the lethal injection on death row.
this can't be real, dear lord in heaven it cant be real, can it ?
It's not. It's a parody account that took advantage of Twitter's unbelievably stupid decision to hand out checkmarks to anyone who paid for an account.
They left out the best part: it's operated by women and children, we finally ended the patriarchy
Imma reuse my joke from last time this was posted:
The Green Revolution deserve AA capability, too!
Well I guess all the people they kill can't contribute to any emissions
Gotta kill billionaires then. Blowing up poor people is highly inefficient.
But who's going to fund all the killing then? It's more efficient to keep your stream of income alive.
Not if their money is redistributed. It’s not like it disappears.
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That's a grimly salient point. I wonder how long it will take to advertise them as carbon-negative.
Well hello, Mr. Malthus.
Well hello, finite resources.
The RIM-7 doesn't even have that justification for being green; its a short range anti-missile (and super cost effectively, anti-drone...) system. It isn't used to blow people up directly.
Not just the people, but they are so thoughtful as to remove the polluting airplanes, too. Praise to the overlords.
This is not real... right?
The greenest missile is the one used to remove Big Oil executives and lobbyists.
Every search result I found links back to this exact screenshot.
"Yeah, we kill civilians in droves but at least we're eco friendly about it."
The marketing speak, tho. I think that angers me the most. More eco friendly than something that has zero measurable levels of eco friendly, is a low bar. It's like saying asbestos is more eco friendly than coal carbon emissions, so therefore asbestos is eco friendly and should be celebrated. Theres zero good to their argument.
Remember when Robert Evans did fake ads for Raytheon on his podcast? This is more ham fisted than his parody ads were.
Couldn't find the tweet, but they do seem to engage in some military greenwashing:
"Every person we murder helps the ecosystem" ~Raytheon
They're not wrong
Nah, get out of here with the eco fascist rhetoric.
No
Aside from directly destroying the flora and fauna, I've pondered a lot how much pollution World War 2 had produced with all the bombs dropped and fuels used to run a global scale industrialised warfare and genocide If I decide to switch my career to environmental science, I would like to do research on that topic.
I feel like they missed the point entirely
Few people realize it because most people will see past that greenwashing bullshit immediately.
This needs to be Jason figuring it out.. then it’s accurate.
I can't even imagine who this is for. There just one guy rubbing it to war weaponry but only if it's environmentally conscious? Dirk, buddy? Did you like that tweet?
solar powered ice misiles targeteting the sun
Is this a subsidiary of Veridian Dynamics ?
This isn't real, right? Please tell me it's not. If you wrote this as satire, it'd be shot down by the editor as being way too on-the-nose.
This is insane
These fuckers are making fun of all of us. They know we won't do anything to stop them selling shit to kill people.
Environmentally friendly missile for children is like saying the new E/I (educational/Informational) version of Epstine island. Here's a wild idea... maybe stop spending billions on "green" murder machines and start putting it towards digging humanity out of the eco crisis that is going to leave our grand kids in a Mad Max movie.
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