RedWeasel@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 14:25
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Ah, it is only pocket change. /s
random_character_a@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 14:35
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Why provide healthcare for your people when you can blow up stuff half way around the world for no reason and nothing gained.
SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 14:37
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On behalf of a completely different sovereign nation.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 15:42
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Israel serves a vital US interest. It operates as an enormous money laundering operation, turning billions of dollars in “aid” into campaign donations for the next election cycle. Then it helps justify the next genocide of Arab and Persian peoples in a region rich with cheaply extract-able petrochemicals.
This just isn’t true. Our healthcare system isn’t bad because we’re cheap. Or because the Pentagon sucks up all the money. We already spend more on healthcare than the military and it’s not close! The truth is that we’re getting ripped off! In fact, Medicare for All would be cheaper and we’d have more money for bombs.
Medicare Advantage alone costs more than the Army and the Navy. The whole Medicare program is slightly bigger than the entire Pentagon. Add in Social Security, Medicaid, and the VA, and if anything, the military starts to look like a real bargain.
Bullerfar@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 17:12
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What a load of horse poo
DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca
on 30 Apr 22:42
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The USA spends more tax dollars per capita on health care than any other country. And then people have to buy insurance and pay out of pocket on top of that.
If the USA just magically cloned any public healthcare system in the world they would save billions in tax dollars and insurance and out-of-pocket health costs would disappear.
DandomRude@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 15:08
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Isn’t that the whole point of the matter anyway? It’s all about ensuring that the arms manufacturers rake in as much profit as possible. I mean, who’s going to buy the line from a pedophile and serious criminal that this is about anything other than enriching his degenerate billionaire clique?
Edit: What, exactly, is the official justification being put forward in the U.S. for this mass murder that violates international law? Has one even been given by now, or is it still just the orange mob boss doing whatever he wants, and the citizens don’t even bother to ask anymore why the U.S., together with the butchers from Israel, is committing the most egregious war crimes, just so the richest can get even richer. You know, that’s how it looks to the rest of the world, I’d say - because that’s exactly what it is.
GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca
on 30 Apr 16:42
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The best part is it’s not only expensive, but a lot of it is irreplaceable. The E-3 that was destroyed is out of production, and its replacement was cancelled. The ground radars are even better - the destroyed THAAD radars used gallium nitride, and the AN/FPS-132 (formerly the largest US radar in the middle east) used gallium arsenide. Who produces 99% of the world’s gallium? China, and they’ve banned exports of it.
America’s military power isn’t able to regenerate because America doesn’t have the production capacity to do so. Thus, any losses are a basically permanent degradation.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 17:00
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Lmao no sir. All this does is open the door to some fat new R&D contracts for defense contractors
Of course! You realize, however, that the contractors still get paid when the program never materializes. This is grift 101. They’ll design a new super advanced radar over the course of years, the specifications and design will slowly change, then it’ll be cancelled and replaced with a new program.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 20:57
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But, but… hear me out… does Donald feel like a big boy today?
Yeah?
Then worth it.
/s
Doomsider@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 22:13
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The industrial military complex loves this one trick.
418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 22:42
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Ah, it is only pocket change. /s
Why provide healthcare for your people when you can blow up stuff half way around the world for no reason and nothing gained.
On behalf of a completely different sovereign nation.
Israel serves a vital US interest. It operates as an enormous money laundering operation, turning billions of dollars in “aid” into campaign donations for the next election cycle. Then it helps justify the next genocide of Arab and Persian peoples in a region rich with cheaply extract-able petrochemicals.
To quote America’s Greatest President
<img alt="" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXkJaDrUIAAqm4T.jpg">
For Epstein! For Greater Israel!!! Praise be to Allah?!
This just isn’t true. Our healthcare system isn’t bad because we’re cheap. Or because the Pentagon sucks up all the money. We already spend more on healthcare than the military and it’s not close! The truth is that we’re getting ripped off! In fact, Medicare for All would be cheaper and we’d have more money for bombs.
Medicare Advantage alone costs more than the Army and the Navy. The whole Medicare program is slightly bigger than the entire Pentagon. Add in Social Security, Medicaid, and the VA, and if anything, the military starts to look like a real bargain.
What a load of horse poo
The USA spends more tax dollars per capita on health care than any other country. And then people have to buy insurance and pay out of pocket on top of that.
If the USA just magically cloned any public healthcare system in the world they would save billions in tax dollars and insurance and out-of-pocket health costs would disappear.
Isn’t that the whole point of the matter anyway? It’s all about ensuring that the arms manufacturers rake in as much profit as possible. I mean, who’s going to buy the line from a pedophile and serious criminal that this is about anything other than enriching his degenerate billionaire clique?
Edit: What, exactly, is the official justification being put forward in the U.S. for this mass murder that violates international law? Has one even been given by now, or is it still just the orange mob boss doing whatever he wants, and the citizens don’t even bother to ask anymore why the U.S., together with the butchers from Israel, is committing the most egregious war crimes, just so the richest can get even richer. You know, that’s how it looks to the rest of the world, I’d say - because that’s exactly what it is.
The best part is it’s not only expensive, but a lot of it is irreplaceable. The E-3 that was destroyed is out of production, and its replacement was cancelled. The ground radars are even better - the destroyed THAAD radars used gallium nitride, and the AN/FPS-132 (formerly the largest US radar in the middle east) used gallium arsenide. Who produces 99% of the world’s gallium? China, and they’ve banned exports of it.
America’s military power isn’t able to regenerate because America doesn’t have the production capacity to do so. Thus, any losses are a basically permanent degradation.
Lmao no sir. All this does is open the door to some fat new R&D contracts for defense contractors
Of course! You realize, however, that the contractors still get paid when the program never materializes. This is grift 101. They’ll design a new super advanced radar over the course of years, the specifications and design will slowly change, then it’ll be cancelled and replaced with a new program.
But, but… hear me out… does Donald feel like a big boy today?
Yeah?
Then worth it.
/s
The industrial military complex loves this one trick.
Only the finest materiel goes in our trash.