And that's just what they admit to publicly.

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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

MIC has made $113 Billion in profits.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Ain't no war better than a proxy war. Libs don't lose their kids, political support so easy to maintain

    Love to see the defense stock skyrocket. They're the real winners

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    There are usually half a million homeless people in the USA. That means that they could've bought each and every one of those a 200k dollar home with that money. They could also have paid a total of 50 million months of rent at the 2000$ median price. And this is even taking as a premise that housing should be sellable or rentable in the first place. And yet they preferred this instead.

    Any Yankee around still not convinced that the USA government needs to end, this is your moment to reconsider.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Isn't this technically loaned to Ukraine?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And they'll be asking for returns

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    That’s not really astounding to me. Hell, our government made the decision over a weekend to give 22 billion to bail out Silicon Valley Bank. Our government spends this kind of money without blinking. They only act like it’s too much when it would be used to help the average citizen.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It seems they got rattled by Russia's rebellion against NATO. They want to preserve their hegemony as much as possible.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm learning this in my personal life...no one is as irrational as a narcissist who realizes they're losing control.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Imagine spending these money on useful things

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Instead of spending a fraction of that money to improve its own people's lives, the US yet again prioritizes supporting fascist scum over valuing human life. The US terrorist regime needs to be sent where it belongs, the dustbin of history!

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  • God how many lifesaving materials could that money buy

    hospital equipment, hospitals, vaccines, infrastructure repair, debt relief, healthcare, fucking anything!

    but now its just burned on a war they will lose in like 3 years

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Literally no one I know is happy about this. I have yet to meet a single living person who approves of all this unchecked money and equipment being sent to some European country most people didn't know about until 2014.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Good thing there were no massive fires recently in any states within their own country that need aid, or a widespread epidemic of homelessness, or people starving in the streets.

    Must be great that they have everything so under control domestically that there is absolutely nothing else that that money could be spent on. So yeah, keep it going forever, that seems to make sense.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    $1 million dollars to everybody living in the USA with billions left over.

    Healthcare? Nope, too expensive.

    Better water or power service? Nope, too expensive.

    Public transport? Nope, too expensive.

    War? Oh shit yeah! Money 🖨 go brrrrr!

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Nah it's only 337 dollars to everyone living in the USA. But I agree that it would have bought a lot of healthcare and infrastructure instead of pouring it down the toilet that is the Ukrainian military.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You really need to double-check that math lol

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    'kay fine.. I'll be more specific.

    $1 million dollars "to each and every living person within the arbitrary borders of the United States of Mayo-vania"

    There... are you happy... now.

    mumbles in Rodney Dangerfield, "Can't get no respect round here.. none at all"

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Math is also theory. pls self-crit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Okay, I'll bite.

    How am I supposed to understand this comment?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    you seemed to double down on your math error instead of investigating and correcting it. It just looks silly unless there was a a joke I missed.

    if libs saw this they would post this to a tankiejerk comm saying "Hexbear can't math. Explains why they like communism 100 billion dead" etc. I don't wanna give them easy Ws.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Okay so I'm seeing less of a math error and more of a, I didn't specifically say give everybody living in the USA $1million dollars each. So.. like.. 11 billion minus what... somewhere around 400 million is like... counts on fingers, 10 billion and change for war and 400 million people with some cash in pocket to pay bills or buy new teeth or whatever.

    Instead, the comment decided to interpret my lack of specificity as, "$1million divided up between 400million." Which is genuinely funny and I figured I would roll with the dig.

    And I mean, liberals are gonna liberal. I'm not too worried about it. But I can appreciate the concern. comrade-doggo

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    yeah it reads like you were saying $113 billon divided by 400 million people = $1 million each lol

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Huh.... rereads

    $1 million dollars to everybody living in the USA with billions left over.

    I'd read it like, "1 ice cream cone to every kid in the class." Not sure why it would be read as "1 ice cream code to be shared by the class".

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The amount you're looking for is a dollar. If you take 400 million out of the spending and divide it equally among 400 million people, everyone gets a dollar. I 100% agree that everyone getting that dollar would be an improvement upon current state, but a dollar doesn't even get you a slice anymore, much less pay for new teeth.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    While im not surprised all this happened (MIC shenanigans and whatnot)

    debord-tired

    I dont know, im just sad.

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  • [+] 1 point 2 years ago