Comment on Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment

sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  haha no

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is for civilians, we’re the ones paying the repair bills.

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When civilians want something, it’s always “those poor corporations!”

  At least with the bill focused on military you can put forward the importance of “combat readiness”, “supporting the troops”, “taxpayer dollars”, and other things that politicians often say they care about.

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• GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If this passes for the military, then that will mandate the creation of a parts supply chain, as well as documentation and manuals for maintenance and repair, for whatever the military buys. Once that stuff is created, it’ll be a lot easier to mandate that the existing stuff be made available to the public, too.

  That might not make much of a difference for a guided bomb, but it’ll make a huge difference for the huge amount of commercial off the shelf stuff that the military buys: laptops, routers, tablets, phones, civilian vehicles, tools, other basic equipment.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Buy military surplus equipment, I guess?

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I imagine it’s a lot easier to expand to civilians later than to get a bill through without the military/government benefitting first.

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