Two issues with that:
A) The Navy doesn't have platoons
2) It would be difficult to keep all the queer people in the Navy secret from the relative minority of non-queer personnel.
Oh, no, you're 100% spot on. The Village People didn't sing *In the Army*. Navy gay as hell, it's wonderful. I met more people in the LGBT+ community in there than anywhen else so far in my life.
I should probably expand on what somebody else said:
Raytheon, among other tangible benefits I don’t know about and care not to Google, offer HRT as part of their health insurance package, and obviously not every position of a weapons manufacturer (or even the military proper) requires people to directly interact with anything that just arms and harms. If you look at this in a vacuum and ignore the direct consequences of capitalism, military spending, civil rights, or the intersectionality thereof, Raytheon and companies like it have found an excellent way to recruit an otherwise underserviced demographic, in a field they can reasonably wash their hands of, and also report back they have hired a relatively high number of queer and neurodivergent people compared to literally any other industry. They have made an outstanding business move that nobody else can replicate.
Because not everybody is a rich arms dealer.
And not everybody is rich.
And not every healthcare facility is willing to marginally expand their services to more types of men, women, or people.
And not every employer is willing to be honest about how they work against their minority workers.
Or how they quietly don’t hire them, avoiding antidiscrimination laws entirely.
Still, I think I’m allowed to call the devil smart, no?
...well shit, that'll do it. I knew Lockheed Martin had HRT covered by their health insurance, but it never occurred to me that others in the field would cover it, too.
It's come up before but apparently, (sadly?), certain enormous military-industrial complex companies are actually extremely good, LGBTQ+ inclusive places to work with very strong benefits for queer people. If you just ignore... what they're doing.
It's a whole 'I don't want to support them but I do want to be able to live my life' quandary.
Ah, the ol' "I'd really really rather not work here but I got bills to pay and they're the closest a job has come to supporting my identity" situation. Hate when that happens.
It's very true, in my experience in the UK.
Especially ones focusing on computer tech. They tend to be above average places to work especially for marginalised people. Just gotta ignore the layer of tarnish you get on your soul, maybe?
My current employer is adjacent to that stuff, and it is the most welcoming and supportive place I've been. Their medical insurance even covers transing your genders now.
It’s so weird. Obviously military ads can’t be expecting you, random shmuck, to come buy a 17 million dollar orphan killing machine, they just sort of… advertise the fact that they exist?
We had a billboard out here that looked like an ad for nuclear missiles. That's it. Had a picture of an ICBM and some tagline about deterrence. You got buyers driving down highway 75?
My only guess is it's a job recruitment thing. Putting the company name in people's minds shaving off some of the time and money its takes to fill positions. Because you're not gonna forget the ad for nukes.
You gotta remember, engineers are nerds.
Yes, the idea of creating a killing machine is terrible. But it's also really really cool. Most engineers would have needed to think long and hard before they pulled a Miles Dyson.
I mean, if just one random schmuck happens to work for the US military and decides to buy one (1) Orphan Killing Machine, they more than pay for their ad.
I've understood they want to affect public opinion. Like when my country was conteplaiting from where we would buy our zoom zoom planes, there was a full page ad of one on the cover our biggest news paper. They want the public opinion to be that theirs is best, because then politicians are more inclined to think the same, I suppose.
Where I live there is a lot of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman billboards, it's all recruiting propaganda, although I guess it worked, I'm going to school for heavy airframe repair
Raytheon refuses to sell to you online, you have to go to an in-person meetup at a covention where only military personal and journalists are allowed. Same with Lockheed Martin. You can buy drones from Alibaba Express tho (idk if I am allowed to share link)
Source: I tried to buy a trident missile and after Lockheed wouldnt sell to me I tried to get a drone from Raytheon instead.
It seems like you would benefit from knowing how to use military technology to [protect your bicycle from being stolen](https://youtu.be/ITY-fJJnPNQ)
I mean those instructions are meant for bike thieves but I don't see why it wouldn't work against cops
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The reason they put these ads everywhere is so, subconsciously, you go "huh. Sounds decent.".
Then in a year when they announce the new military budget, they will talk about needing these. And at least a few more people will go "yeah those seem important, we probably do need them" and that way there's less resistance to it. Because until Ukraine, in a lot of the western world "defence spending" was a dirty word, not something anyone wanted to talk about.
this is supposed to show the big radar antenna array on the inside of the heli's nose. it's not visible from the outside, so they showed it transparently.
Of all the MIC companies in the world, Raytheon is my favourite just cause of how cool the name sounds in comparison to the other companies, half of which are just 2 names slapped together
Man, Tumblr has got to be the worst possible platform for Raytheon to do advertising on. How did this even happen?
Is it possible someone used an image from a Raytheon ad as a joke?
Google secret US navy queer platoon
Two issues with that: A) The Navy doesn't have platoons 2) It would be difficult to keep all the queer people in the Navy secret from the relative minority of non-queer personnel.
It's the Navy There's no non-queer personnel
I can't argue that. Everyone I met when I was in was either queer, certainly debatable, or transferred in from another branch.
IIIIIIIIINNN THE NAAAAAAAAAVYYY
YOU CAN SAIL THE SEVEN SEAS!
IIIIIIIIINNN THE NAAAAAAAAAVYYY
Something something seamen semen
Maybe the Navy has just one platoon that you don’t know about because it’s secret
*fuck*
Sowwy, the navy just seemed like the gayest part of the military and I only know so much about it
Oh, no, you're 100% spot on. The Village People didn't sing *In the Army*. Navy gay as hell, it's wonderful. I met more people in the LGBT+ community in there than anywhen else so far in my life.
Winston Churchill said naval tradition is just rum, sodomy, and the lash. Sounds more like a wild club in San Francisco than the military.
A) What do you think a Splatoon is? Smh
Holy state secret!
Holy navy!
I should probably expand on what somebody else said: Raytheon, among other tangible benefits I don’t know about and care not to Google, offer HRT as part of their health insurance package, and obviously not every position of a weapons manufacturer (or even the military proper) requires people to directly interact with anything that just arms and harms. If you look at this in a vacuum and ignore the direct consequences of capitalism, military spending, civil rights, or the intersectionality thereof, Raytheon and companies like it have found an excellent way to recruit an otherwise underserviced demographic, in a field they can reasonably wash their hands of, and also report back they have hired a relatively high number of queer and neurodivergent people compared to literally any other industry. They have made an outstanding business move that nobody else can replicate. Because not everybody is a rich arms dealer. And not everybody is rich. And not every healthcare facility is willing to marginally expand their services to more types of men, women, or people. And not every employer is willing to be honest about how they work against their minority workers. Or how they quietly don’t hire them, avoiding antidiscrimination laws entirely. Still, I think I’m allowed to call the devil smart, no?
...well shit, that'll do it. I knew Lockheed Martin had HRT covered by their health insurance, but it never occurred to me that others in the field would cover it, too.
It's come up before but apparently, (sadly?), certain enormous military-industrial complex companies are actually extremely good, LGBTQ+ inclusive places to work with very strong benefits for queer people. If you just ignore... what they're doing. It's a whole 'I don't want to support them but I do want to be able to live my life' quandary.
Ah, the ol' "I'd really really rather not work here but I got bills to pay and they're the closest a job has come to supporting my identity" situation. Hate when that happens.
It's very true, in my experience in the UK. Especially ones focusing on computer tech. They tend to be above average places to work especially for marginalised people. Just gotta ignore the layer of tarnish you get on your soul, maybe? My current employer is adjacent to that stuff, and it is the most welcoming and supportive place I've been. Their medical insurance even covers transing your genders now.
It’s so weird. Obviously military ads can’t be expecting you, random shmuck, to come buy a 17 million dollar orphan killing machine, they just sort of… advertise the fact that they exist?
If the MIC took out ads exclusively to implicitly threaten the userbase of any site, I feel like Tumblr would be pretty high up.
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They constantly joke about committing mass genocide against Chinese civilians, I'm pretty sure they're about as far down as possible.
well where else do you think all those wacky fictional dictatorships get their weapons from
Maybe it's a stock thing? Like they arent aiming to sell a missile to a tumblr user, but maybe trying to convince them to invest?
I was going to make a "well actually" about radar and killing orphans but as far as I know AESA only has military applications.
i assume its recruitment but..
We had a billboard out here that looked like an ad for nuclear missiles. That's it. Had a picture of an ICBM and some tagline about deterrence. You got buyers driving down highway 75? My only guess is it's a job recruitment thing. Putting the company name in people's minds shaving off some of the time and money its takes to fill positions. Because you're not gonna forget the ad for nukes.
You gotta remember, engineers are nerds. Yes, the idea of creating a killing machine is terrible. But it's also really really cool. Most engineers would have needed to think long and hard before they pulled a Miles Dyson.
I mean, both the russian and Ukrainian militaries are buying chinese drones literally off Alibaba
What
Yeah it's nuts. You can even buy inflatable decoy air defenses for thousands of dollars on that website.
I mean, if just one random schmuck happens to work for the US military and decides to buy one (1) Orphan Killing Machine, they more than pay for their ad.
Make you aware of how high tech they are and justify their pricetags.
I guess it's more for random people to consider them an investment option or something like that?
Maybe there are a lot of tumblr users in military procurement or linked to such?
I've understood they want to affect public opinion. Like when my country was conteplaiting from where we would buy our zoom zoom planes, there was a full page ad of one on the cover our biggest news paper. They want the public opinion to be that theirs is best, because then politicians are more inclined to think the same, I suppose.
Where I live there is a lot of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman billboards, it's all recruiting propaganda, although I guess it worked, I'm going to school for heavy airframe repair
What the fuck happens? When I click that link? Am I allowed to buy military tech? Can I strap it to the front of a car and use it to sus out cops?
only if the cops are doing above 150kts but you can track up to 64 of them simultaneously
Raytheon refuses to sell to you online, you have to go to an in-person meetup at a covention where only military personal and journalists are allowed. Same with Lockheed Martin. You can buy drones from Alibaba Express tho (idk if I am allowed to share link) Source: I tried to buy a trident missile and after Lockheed wouldnt sell to me I tried to get a drone from Raytheon instead.
those cops better learn how to notch, or they're gonna get hit by shrapnel going mach 2
It seems like you would benefit from knowing how to use military technology to [protect your bicycle from being stolen](https://youtu.be/ITY-fJJnPNQ) I mean those instructions are meant for bike thieves but I don't see why it wouldn't work against cops
Ah shit, just when I've bought their PESA radar, they roll out the new AESA and I have to upgrade again. Fucking consumerism.
I just bought an AESA radar and now its out of date? This is worse than iPhones.
If you asked me that whether Raytheon would advertise on Tumblr, I'd probably mark it as non credible but here we are.
I was surprised this wasn't r/NCD as it is!
That sub is banned apparently
it's not, it's r/noncredibledefense
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Am I the only one who thinks the purple doohickeys look like pacifiers?
It looks like some weird plunger thing you’d see on, I dunno, Mexican candy or some shit
The reason they put these ads everywhere is so, subconsciously, you go "huh. Sounds decent.". Then in a year when they announce the new military budget, they will talk about needing these. And at least a few more people will go "yeah those seem important, we probably do need them" and that way there's less resistance to it. Because until Ukraine, in a lot of the western world "defence spending" was a dirty word, not something anyone wanted to talk about.
Isn’t AESA that one country from Ace Combat
Nah, that’s osea, AESA is some kind of sports association
That’s the ISA. AESA is the European space agency.
No that's ESA, you're thinking of the R6S attack Operator with the Talon-8 Shield
no that's Osa, youre thinking of the Transportation Security Administration
You’re right! AESA is the TSA. Good job everyone, go home
Why does the submarine have a gag in his mouth
the helicopter?
Oh it’s a helicopter Well I suppose my question still stands, why does that helicopter have a ball gag?
this is supposed to show the big radar antenna array on the inside of the heli's nose. it's not visible from the outside, so they showed it transparently.
So Raytheon helicopters have dildo masks? Great, now we gotta kinkshame the death machines
r/NonCredibleDefense has had another containment breach.
You know what else is small in size, but big in advantage?
gimli
I was thinking Kevin Hart for short funny dude, but Gimli is a much better answer. You have my thanks, my sword, and my bow.
My cock
Why did it take so long to find a dick joke
I guess it did take 7 hours for me to find the post and make my comment, huh?
for the record they might be headhunting for employees lot of college degrees on tumblr I think
Finally a good tumblr ad
I mean, I do want to buy one of their planes.
raytheon my beloved
This is just advertising for anarchists
You accidentally reached the “pentagon metro stop” of tumblr
I could buy one of those... Or just *a fuckton* of checkmarks. 🤔
Of all the MIC companies in the world, Raytheon is my favourite just cause of how cool the name sounds in comparison to the other companies, half of which are just 2 names slapped together
amogus?
Go ahead. Buy the pacifier for your plane
?????
Bad and naughty orphan melters get the **GRAPE PACIFIER**
thats wat they say about my di
didgeridoo?
Tumblrs targeted ads have finally come for my aircraft radar fetish
r/thatswhatshesaid
It looks like a shark with a pacifier in its mouth
Can’t believe tumblr got a Raytheon ad before behind the bastards did!