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They very much are. The endless "You shouldn't be able to track my jet" was very much about making it harder to plan a blue shell than it was about caring about getting clowned on for hating the environment. I honestly suspect THAT is the big reason that musk wanted to be a government official and destroy things. Now he can get a secret service detail (or at least pretend his hired thugs are secret service) for life.
That is more or less where I come down. I do not at all think that we should shake people's hands and thank them for their service in shooting a brown kid and destroying a mosque... or sitting in an office chair while their coworkers did that for them. I don't like salmon THAT much.
But the US military is more or less proof that socialism and planned economies work. And we have done wonders implementing aspects of UBI for them. But the moment they put down the gun/wrench/pen? Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Like... fuck the VA. You shouldn't have to have been told to look the other way from sexual assault of a fellow soldier to get medical and psychiatric treatment.
But deleting the VA without providing anything better? That is the same as destroying the orgs that apparently helped lower income households not freeze to death in the winter and is just about suffering for suffering's sake.
And, of course, the call of duty generation just fantasize about how everyone is soap mcprice and is going to do a rambo because they don't ACTUALLY understand how militaries or modern warfare works and refuse to acknowledge just how dangerous the guns on store shelves actually are.