🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 19 days agoAnon explains the 2nd amendmentsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square127fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageAnon explains the 2nd amendmentsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 19 days agomessage-square127fedilink
minus-squareBreve@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-218 days agoMilitary spending in 2023 (in billions of US dollars): United States: 916 China: 296 Russia: 109 India: 83.6 People who own a “don’t tread on me” flag: 0* Rounded to nearest significant figure
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-217 days agoI don’t feel like Russia got a hundred billion dollars worth of military out of the hundred billion dollars they spent
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoAlright, so here me out. We need guns to protect ourselves from the Chinese government. What do you say about that? Just saved you $620B
minus-squareBreve@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoI sure hope those 2nd amendment fanatics can afford the naval vessels and foreign military bases they’re going to need to get involved in the South China Sea! 💸
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-218 days agoYou joke, but libertarians lost a war to Tonga
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoEh, Americans spend something like $10-20B per year on guns and ammo. That’s nowhere near the military budget, but it’s still a lot of guns and ammo, so the US would put up a pretty good guerrilla resistance.
Military spending in 2023 (in billions of US dollars):
United States: 916
China: 296
Russia: 109
India: 83.6
People who own a “don’t tread on me” flag: 0*
I don’t feel like Russia got a hundred billion dollars worth of military out of the hundred billion dollars they spent
Alright, so here me out. We need guns to protect ourselves from the Chinese government. What do you say about that? Just saved you $620B
I sure hope those 2nd amendment fanatics can afford the naval vessels and foreign military bases they’re going to need to get involved in the South China Sea! 💸
You joke, but libertarians lost a war to Tonga
Eh, Americans spend something like $10-20B per year on guns and ammo. That’s nowhere near the military budget, but it’s still a lot of guns and ammo, so the US would put up a pretty good guerrilla resistance.