• @Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
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      211 year ago

      The sadder thing is we already pay more per capita for Healthcare than anyone else. We don’t even need any money from the pentagon to get everyone Healthcare. There’s enough already. We just need to end all the inefficiencies and profit taking and things like private insurance.

    • @Tak@lemmy.ml
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      141 year ago

      Or how invasive the government is about welfare, social security, or unemployment.

      • originalucifer
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        71 year ago

        thats all about causing pain to the right kinds of people. theres only one side of the isle in the united states who performs/initiates the ridiculous scrutiny of social services

  • Rentlar
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    181 year ago

    A clear example of this is the F-35 program, which has gone over its original budget by $165 billion to build a plane tasked to perform many different tasks, none of which it does well.

    I tried to get an F-35 to clean my old apartment, it kind of worked at first but it burned down the apartment instead…

  • Kool_Newt
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    141 year ago

    I’d say it makes sense to assume the worst. $3T used for the darkest acts meant to maintain power and fortunes.

    • flipht
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      61 year ago

      It’s usually bags of money and pallets of equipment that go “missing” and find a new home with a warlord.

    • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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      111 year ago

      Nah there is no reason anyone in the defense industry has to care one iota about records they probably didn’t keep, nor any investigators that ask questions. No one is going to enforce accountability. No one is going to lose their job. No one is going to mess up whatever gravy train they have going and no one in congress actually cares. That requires way too much work.

      • originalucifer
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        41 year ago

        yep. and if theyre reporting this much, imagine what they got away with not reporting.

  • Karlos_Cantana
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    111 year ago

    Judge not, lest ye be judged. Who here hasn’t accidentally tipped a valet $1 trillion instead of $10? It’s happened to all of us at one time or another.

  • @quindraco@lemm.ee
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    11 year ago

    I’mma need this author to name at least two “analysts” who genuinely believe the USA instigated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.