Thread by @45thabsurdist

Serious question:
Who is this ad for?

https://twitter.com/raytheondefense/status/1308779321528524800

I will concede that “Robert and the fine people who listen to his podcasts” is a funny answer.

However, the ad as a cultural artifact also indicates a world where plutocrats skim twitter and then idly make calls to their broker to buy stock in knife missiles—->

And government functionaries with DoD purchasing power, utterly unqualified for their positions, entirely unfamiliar with the world of defense contractors, and absolutely wrecked by petty abuse from their superiors, skim twitter between receiving tweet-orders from the president->

And random queers in portland check twitter to see what kind of stochastic terrorism representatives of the federal government are encouraging this week, so we can shitpost about it.

And twitter’s algorithm is like “these people should all know more about @RaytheonDefense!” —>

And it’s certainly partly due to our friend, who we’ve been repeatedly chemical-weaponed with, making jokes about being funded by the Knife-Missle guys.

So once again, life under the increasingly unstable late capitalist hegemony of the 2020 United States is the best. ~>

And yes, getting this ad might also have something to do with our habit of blocking the vast majority of promoted tweets.

But, as indicated by that ad,
Nothing can block a Raytheon (tm)

Since we’re talking about Foucault’s Boomerang:

Wish Michel was around to get this image pushed at him on twitter.

He woulda gotten a kick out of it, comparable to the recoil kick of an Excalibur weapons system.

Or the high kicks that gentleman can do in his little shorts.

Don’t caption this.

Don’t say “Precision” or “Excalibur” for this image of two men delicately attending to the missile which stands erect between them.

Don’t mention how the man on the left has removed a glove to caress the missle’s warhead, revealing a wedding band.

Do. Not.