• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    And people said Trump could never live up to Reagan’s legacy. He’s already half senile, making shady deals with cartels and despots, ruining the tax code, and trying to build a missile defense system that will never exist.

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        I’m currently reading Where the Wizards Stay Up Late. According to the book, Eisenhower was annoyed at how much the military branches jumped on projects to secure funding, so he made a non-military department called ARPA. And ARPA invented the internet.

        Let’s do more of that.

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          And then ARPA became DARPA.

          A military department.

          It’s murder and mass destruction for fun and profit all the way down.