• billwashere@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    This logic is beyond stupid. Spend this money on renewables and the need for military that large essentially goes away.

    But that wouldn’t enrich his oil and defense contractor buddies so …

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    5 hours ago

    The thing that really gets me is if we spent this money on renewables we’d be out of the oil game already.

  • Soulphite@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    Kegsbreath and Co. need more for lobster tails and ribeyes… and oh yeah, killing more brown people. In Jesus’ name they pray, Amen. Fuck you! They eating.

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        Yep! Personally, I’m in favor of the name change DoD was whitewashing. We haven’t fought a defensive war since The War of 1812. The DoD has never been part of a defensive war. Sure, the method they used to add a different name was stupid, but at least the name is honest. People enlisting to “defend the country” at least won’t be tricked by the name if we officially change it.

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    9 hours ago

    US military spending is already ~40% of global military spending, which is an insane number. Halving that budget could fix so many problems.