CyberEgg

That's just dumb. We must focus on Europe and the European Union. China is a systematic enemy seeking to disrupt and destabilize us.

The US defence industry does pretty well

At what cost though? What about the rest of the U.S.'s public infrastructure, i.e. healthcare, education system, social security, etc?
The U.S.'s military industrial complex does well because the U.S. defense budget was $886 billion in 2024.

The U.S. drives on a fucked up system. We should be very careful about what we use as a role model.

Wow, you really destroyed me.

You're missing my point. I even stated that the block would benefit from a concentration of military development instead of each nation's own industries with occasional transnational cooperative projects.

My point is that I don't want to simply replicate the U.S. american.military industrial complex and focus more on civilian issues first. Military must stay a means of defense, not a means in andof itself as I often have the impression of the U.S. military is.

A government funded, unionwide research agency does sound like a good idea to me. But DARPA is a military r&d agency and I'd rather see an agency focused on benefitting civilian life, preserving nature, sustainability and such.
EU would clearly benefit from concentrating each nations military industries into unionwide companies and projects, too, though, but idk, I feel like we as a society could benefit from a strong, well funded civilian research effort.
I don't know if there is such already out there, all I ever hear about is either underfunded or financed by private profit-oriented companies.

We're supposed to learn that from almost every election in the last couple of years. I mean specifically what's the message of this comic strip.

And what's the message of this? What kind of consequences are suggested to follow this cognition?

I know. Here in Germany, the Bundeswehr also often does disaster relief work. It's just the wording of the title that is kinda... Well, could be read like a title about violent protest abatement.

Am I a cynic for expecting batoning down protests from this headline? I mean, I am a cynic, but given our timeline and the title, am I wrong for being surprised the article talks about emergency relief?

sigh please don't

Because only people who are able to afford a day off are supposed to vote. That's also why republicans agitate against postal voting and why early vote ballot drop-offs are burning.