The money is there, or was..
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The money is there, or was..
@stux Razor sharp stux!
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The money is there, or was..
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The money is there, or was..
Wait till the mob discovers their retirement money has been invested in Bitcoin piramid schemes and *no benefits* will be issued. At_all.
"Took ya only a lifetime to find out what buggers we are, didn't ya gramps!?"
Glorious futures *everywhere*
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The money is there, or was..
They definitely show their colors on the spending side of things. And when you consider that especially at the federal level here, money just isn't even real - it's just pixels on a screen. We could do anything we wanted for the people - we just don't want to.
(Oh, and let me tell you, when you work for a company that makes accounting software and say, "money isn't real" - that will really weird some people out, LOL.)
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The money is there, or was..
@stux Yes, endless wars like the one we are in now. And here we are again, getting involved in another one that we have no business in getting involved in.
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@tootbrute @stux Everything here is a scam.
Sincerely,
A US Citizen@mrgrumpymonkey @stux good movies though. USA looks incredible on Netflix, HBO, and other hollywood shows.
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@stux
And this is only the tip of the iceburg. If we stopped using an inherently scarce medium like money to count for things, we could afford to let everyone have a high standard of living, in a way that was both sustainable and environmentally friendly. But that would mean no ridiculously rich people so...(edit: typo)
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The money is there, or was..
@stux truth
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@rahibyagub @stux send tabj
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The money is there, or was..
@stux even before thinking about how much the US spends on actual weapons and military stuff, it's important to realize how much is simply *wasted* because it's getting skimmed off the top by contractors, inefficiency, or just straight up fraud.
One of the consequences of having a functionally infinite funding stream for a department is that nobody involved thinks of money as a scarce resource, and so they walk the department into fuckass rip-offs.
Recently read a pretty good Cory Doctorow post talking about this.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/#:~:text=Turning,business,-%21
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@stux being pro-war is the most disgusting thing
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@stux
Ferengi rule of acquisition 34: War is good for business. -
The money is there, or was..
@stux I have heard that only the friends of the "enemy" are against wars and military equipment....
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The money is there, or was..
@stux Look here, if we did not throw billions in weaponry at the "bad people" they would eventually come over and take away the healthcare we have. You don't want that, do you? Once we have stopped the "bad people" we will give everybody everything. I solemnly swear.
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As much this numbers may be sadly true, be careful with the linked site. Looks like some Pro-Russian Propaganda Outlet to me.
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The money is there, or was..
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The money is there, or was..
@stux they ll never listen
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@stux
no no, the money is in another pocket.
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The money is there, or was..
@stux In discussions with neolibs I rather encounter the argument "the state can't deliver quality healthcare, it would all be bureaucracy and long wait times" or "it would remove all competition out of the healthcare sector and things will get worse and worse" or even better "you will take the right of people to choose to pay for the healthcare they want". On the other hand the US government has a fracking expensive military apparatus driving up markets, competition and technological progress in weapons manufacturing while literally nobody (not even their congress) has a say in what they fracking use it for. One would think these guys see the contradiction. But never saw one realize it.
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