• Rooskie91@discuss.online
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    5 months ago

    The most insidious part of this is people will say, “any price to keep us safe.” Nevermind that a resource draining military is a catch22 proven idiotic by history time and time again, and we shouldn’t be funding it at all. The money we are spending is absolutely not going to keep us safe. It goes to the heads of weapons manufacturers so that they can manipulate governments into buying their products and provke wars to create demand. As a veteran i can tell you it sure as shit doesn’t go towards paying members of the military, it doesn’t go towards buying top of the line equipment to keep us safe, and definitely not towards maintaining the broke ass equipment that the military has now. Even if you like the military, the best thing you can do is to topple the military industrial complex and advocate for less spending.