General Dynamics has neither been held publicly accountable nor had to repay any of the money.

A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former workers there. This wasn’t ideal, as the plant was supposed to be churning out urgently needed artillery shells for Ukraine. The robots, giant metal arms with clamps for hands…

… The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million, according to the Army. But the Army has not held General Dynamics or a key Turkish subcontractor — which provided the factory’s much-hyped but little-proven equipment — publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back.

Just the opposite: General Dynamics, one of the world’s largest defense companies, has been showered with new contracts, continuing its track record as one of the greatest beneficiaries of Pentagon spending. The company is still in charge of the factory. It recently announced that it will fix things there by bringing in another much-hyped but little-proven technology.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    You haven’t read a single one of these links.

    You certainly haven’t read about

    kidnappings, killings, repression, illegal arrests, sabotage, etc

    Committed by the Marcos and Duterte governments of The Philippines. Much less the long history of Red Tagging used to justify the pogroms.

    All it takes is excusing no tribe

    “Both Sides!” But always the Evil Foreigners first.

    Defending a US backed military junta in the midst of monstrous crimes against humanity, because you’ve been pre-programmed to hate anyone outside your nation’s sphere of influence.

    I’m sure you clapped like a seal during the Bloody Sunday killing. Fucking MAGA fascist.

    • Natanael@infosec.pub
      1·
      3 days ago

      I’ve criticized every government myself, my own (Sweden) and EU and USA and also China et al. You’re just pretending to be better, and you know you can’t justify defending China so you have to lie to claim I’m MAGA without knowing anything about me.

      You’re pre-programmed to assume people can’t want to rule themselves and that anything that contradict China’s desire to enforce total cultural uniformity is an evil plot by USA. Bootlicking fucking tankie. You’d applaud everything USA ever did if China claimed it was them who did it. You’d celebrate MK Ultra if China revealed they were doing that in their secret prisons for political prisoners.

      When USA uses their aid programs for political pressure you’re outraged and then China does it and you cheer.

      https://www.industriall-union.org/curbing-violations-by-chinese-multinationals-in-african-critical-minerals-boom

      Also this is a collection of links that I read before