This is why we can't afford anything that benefits the working class

Going to keep posting this whenever I see the amount being spent by the DOD mentioned. These are examples of what tens of billions of dollars can fund, not a claim that each item solves the entire national problem. Some of these are one time investments, others are annual pro...

But fuck me for wanting student loan forgiveness to the tune of 475 Billion.

And it doesn't mention the opportunity cost. A missle doesn't pay dividends, it is produced and paid for and doesn't do anything until it's deployed/used. When you invest in infrastructure and related things you create value because people can do more with the same resour...

> Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborer...

I honestly love watching these short videos where a missile worth my entire lifetime tax contribution just gets yeeted into the sea.

The Iran war has cost 11.3 billion in the first week alone. We are so fucked.

This is the 7th time Ive seen this video in 2 days and the 7th time Ive upvoted it.

What’s insane too is we can’t win any of these fucking wars either because it turns out having a shit load of bombs and missiles don’t actually solve the problems.

The US is going to collapse soon. There's no desire to keep people alive, well, or happy. It's in its trash the rental phase from a governance perspective, being used up just for its military and auctioned off for profit, as with data centers and EPA deregulation of polluter...

The sad thing is that if we did begin properly funding schools and healthcare many more Americans would be empowered to create technology that can protect our country. Also: remember a while back that half joking story about how a single hammer to fix a toilet costs the US mi...

Now do trumps cabinet using tax funded expense accounts.

I really don't get how the military justifies such expensive munitions. I mean, most stuff getting fired is not super complex. It's some explosives, a metal casing, a series of rocket engines and some electronics with guidance software. Why does each individual missile cost a ...

I swear the military is just a money laundering scheme

Only the best-equipped military in the history of the world to distract from the Epstein files.

It’s crazy that I’m an incredibly stupid person and yet, even my common sense came to the same conclusion when I was like literally 13/14 years old. 21 years later and here’s my vindication. I’m glad this is being pointed out but how is this not blatantly obvious to everyone ...

Perfect

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

One of the most evil things humans ever did was industrialize war, making it even more profitable and incentivizing warfare even more.

Finally! Appropriate use of this song.

I'm suspect to many of those in power it has nothing to do with cost but with the idea that they believe everything in the world is a competition and if you aren't winning you are losing. Under that distorted interpretation you can't give people resources to better their lives...

Funny (not really funny) part is the wasted munitions are a TINY part of military bloat.  So many billions vanish in ways even more absurd and nebulous than firing an autocannon into the ocean.

Those costs are very inflated. And half those systems are systems from.countries with social safety nets

Money well spent imo seeing how we’ve had the privilege of never having war touch American soil.