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Does no one think our military budget is excessive? If someone thinks otherwise I am really curious as to why
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Anonymous 4w

I think about this every time I drive around and see fucked up infrastructure, like “we would have more than enough to fix this shit if we didn’t buy a plane with it or send it to israel”

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Anonymous 4w

I don’t know anybody that thinks we spend too little on military

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Anonymous 4w

Our military budget is excessive, but our spending in general is excessive. We spend $7.2 trillion annually. $921 billion goes to defense. Our deficit is over $2 trillion.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

$600 screws add up

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

What? $600 screws?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

921 billion for a nation that has never been invaded? Man, imagine the technological lead we’d have if we spent that elsewhere

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

I know it’s a cliche at this point but China is genuinely pretty far ahead of us technologically, visited earlier this year and it’s pretty crazy

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Anonymous replying to -> basedpaperbasket 4w

By what measure?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

I’m speaking mainly to big cities (rural areas are a different box of frogs) but transportation, infrastructure, quality of life tech at restaurants/stores/hotels, etc. were all very impressive

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

and on a software measure, DeepSeek is insanely impressive (more so because of how it was made and the tech behind it rather than anything else)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Yeah military industrial complex, military planes use regular materials for the most part but military contractors up charge insanely

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