We all had fun mocking the Space Force, but the laws of bureaucratic thermodynamics say that a branch of the military, once created, can never be destroyed. Missions will be created for it and it will sink its roots into Congress. This may be Trump's greatest long-term legacy
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The B2 bomber costs a billion dollars a plane, is hard to see on radar, and gets sent on 18 hour round trips out of Missouri to bomb suspicious weddings in Afghanistan. Half the Navy is entirely obsolete. So it's not like the Space Force will stand out because it's so ridiculous
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There's entire weapons systems that get created just to give branches of the military something to do, so I'm really excited to see what Space Force will add to the design-by-committee mix. The new carrier-based space helicopter is going to be the envy of C.O.B.R.A. Commander
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What the U.S. needs now is a Time Force of temporal warriors waiting to receive their full pension, medical care, and lifetime PX benefits while complaining about socialism. It could be amply staffed from our existing active duty troops, it just needs a cool patch
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Max Weber and Roberto Michels, ftw. (I swear classic sociology is more fun than people realize).pic.twitter.com/KWTUjSZYPv
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One of the classic overview papers, but one that also applies this to ... social movements. Fun times. http://technosociology.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/zald-ash.pdf …
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