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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-03-16 06:22 pm

[ SECRET POST #3360 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3360 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Niche]


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03.
[Rush Hour 1, 2, 3]


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04.
["The Bride Was A Boy" manga]


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05.
[J.K. Rowling]


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06.
[Pretty Little Liars]


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07.
[Twin Peaks]


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08.
[The Walking Dead/The Flash]


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09.
(GIRLS)


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10.
[The Grinder]


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11.
[Pokemon]


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12.
[Lord of the Rings]


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13.
[Babylon 5, Tolkien, Star Wars, Harry Potter]


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14.
[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]


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15.
[Pete Seeger]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #480.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2016-03-16 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
OH sorry, "If General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon Generation 1 is so good, why change it?"

Because that is what the military does or are you too stupid to understand that? Why the fuck do you think so much money is put into military spending? Because everyone wants the bigger gun and the fastest plane.

(Anonymous) 2016-03-16 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Given the state of the F-35b program...

(Anonymous) 2016-03-16 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Your understanding of the military and how and why so much taxpayer money goes into defense is so simplistic it's almost Trumpian.

The US military is heavily publicly funded because that's what Republicans want at the expense of other, vital programs. It gets TOO much money, actually -- especially earmarked for projects the military has deemed a failure but keep having pushed on them by Congress, like the V-22 Osprey.

The rebel forces, meanwhile, are, and have been, and will be for some time, a rag-tag group that makes do with what they've got.

Another go?

(Anonymous) 2016-03-16 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
If the rag tag group was not being funded somehow, they'd be dead. There is no way they'd be able to fight any group with even the slightest amount of military funding. It'd be like Cuba going after the US.

I guess that is another reason why Star Wars is such a stupid series.

(Anonymous) 2016-03-16 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yes, I agree with you, SW is stupid. But it doesn't make your arguments not stupid, either.

PS: They ARE being funded, but it's nothing like a proper publicly-funded standing army.

(Anonymous) 2016-03-16 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
You do know that paramilitary funding isn't an all-or-nothing type of thing. Leaving aside that there is a much smaller gap between military and civilian technology in the Star Wars universe (as there was as recently as the 1990s on Earth, it is only in the last fifteen years that military tech has so vastly-and worryingly- outstripped civilian technology) which makes it easier for guerrillas to bridge the gap with scrappy tech and hit and run tactics. Even a beaten up piece of old shit like the Falcon can outfly and outfight Imperial tech in the original trilogy.
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[personal profile] diet_poison 2016-03-17 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
They can have enough funding for operations without having enough left over for research, development, production, and testing.
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[personal profile] analise 2016-03-17 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Also they aren't above just stealing ships to augment their forces. Which is pretty canon since we see it in the old EU and in the new EU. And I'm pretty sure the Imperial shuttle they use to fly down to Endor was likely stolen as well.

[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2016-03-17 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
A fair bit of the U.S. military still depends on designs that have received minor upgrades since the 1970s. (In fact, 1950s and 1960s designs are still used for logistics and transportation.)