2d ago

Make Air Brakes Great Again

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Mike Luckovich

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There are times when breaking with the experts, with tradition, with the way things are done leads to enormous growth, opportunity, and good.
However, getting it right is a once in a lifetime thing, maybe. Twice is rare. Doing it every day means you're deranged.
When they said the greatest transfer of wealth was about to happen, what did people think they meant?… surely you didn’t think the middle class was gonna benefit?…. Hell nah, this is a set up to cause a huge crash so the wealthy can buy everything up… 🍿
- Everyone is perfectly distracted. We're living at max dystopia level.
At the rate it's going, it needs to crash. Otherwise no one seems uncomfortable enough to want to make any adjustments and he just keeps shoring up his bullshit, allowing himself to be less accountable to the justice system, while making EOs to further entrench his people and policies.
- The US economy has been running on funny money for decades at this point. It's like a game of musical chairs for who's going to get stuck with the fallout from a debt-laden service economy driven by speculation and increasingly nefarious financial instruments.
  
  I read this somewhere but I am paraphrasing:
  "The US economy has been an increasingly shaky house of cards for a long time... and now Trump came in and order all windows opened in the middle of a hurricane"
  The giant cracks are starting to open (latest job reports is worst than the one caused by COVID)... I'm guessing by the Fall things will be obvious although they'll keep denying everything... but there is no way Mango Mussolini gets to 4 years pretending things are better than ever
The flag is backwards. But I feel like that's appropriate here.
- Don't comment often, but figured I'd settle this dispute. I work on passenger jets, Airbus A320s. The stars always face forwards as if flying from a flag pole. Here's two different placards we're about to put on, one for the left side, one for the right.
  
  Same with service insignia on the arms/shoulders of soldiers. Stars to the front
- I’m in like 3 hours sleep, but what’s backwards? Isn’t the blue canton thingy in the top left?
  
  Yes and no.
  When used as an insignia (e.g. military uniforms and vehicles), the stars are often on the right - especially if on the right side of the vehicle/person. The idea is that when moving forward, the air resistance will result in the flag pole leading, and the flag appearing reversed.
  It's sometimes called the "flying flag"
  It's also one reason a lot of flags are symmetrical - so that they appear the same from either side and regardless of direction of movement.
- I think that's mostly a military uniform thing and doesn't apply to all things.
  
  It's the standard. Stars forward. You'll see it wrong on a lot of TV and DIY stuff. But merch from reputable sources almost always have it correct.
  You'll notice this with vehicles a lot. Like the Jeep Wagoneer has a flag emblem on both sides with the stars going forward on both. Any wraps or graphics by a business should do it that way. But people doing it themselves often won't.
  It's not a big deal. But it's something I always notice.
- Did they change backwards? That's not how I remember backwards.
  
  On the US Military combat uniforms, where the flag is put on the sleeve of the uniform, the flag patch is displayed with the stars facing forward, in the direction the wearer is facing. This is done to give the impression of the flag flowing in the wind while being carried forward across the battlefield. This is known as the "Reverse Field Flag."
  The same convention is true on liverys for aircraft
- Ok, your complaint is valid but you can see how you have jumped to an extreme position?
  This is over Internet points and a complaint that they didnt crosspost the "proper" way?
  
  Also unless this person is actually Mike Luckovich, the artist who made the comic, they're lifting his comic and posting it, but getting upset about someone doing the same thing?
- YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURES! AS A MODERATOR!!!!!! 1!!! 1!!!!!!
  Op is so fucken ded; they'll never recover from this.
- deleted post bitching about how 'their content" was lifted and wanted it crossposted....also it was "reported" to a moderator.
  Ohhh shit. It's getting real now. The manager has been contacted.
  Not my Internet points!
  Edit: I see your ninja delete. Nope. I'm editing mine too.

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