• @takeda@lemmy.world
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    48 months ago

    Yeah, because that for sure will stop other world powers from arming themselves and attacking others.

    And to answer upcoming question: why we should care not others instead of ourselves. No one attacks us militarily (we are attacked via hubris warfare with disinformation such as this though) because we are armed.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      -68 months ago

      Why would being ten times larger than the next ten militaries in the world combined instead of the next twenty make us likely to be attacked?

      • @takeda@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Because then you would say why 10 and not 5 and so on. The social spending currently is still much much bigger than the money spent for social services anyway (4.1 trillion + 910 billion in non defense spending which covers mentioned education housing etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget

        Cutting military spending won’t increase social spending. The GOP is for cutting spending no matter what do they can cut taxes from corporations which what they did with latest tax bill.

        Look at corporate income taxes, that should be increased.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          -18 months ago

          I’m really amazed that people on Lemmy are actually cheering for massive, bloated military budgets.

          • @takeda@lemmy.world
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            18 months ago

            Oh so after showing how ridiculous your post is and defense budget is a drop in what already is being spent on social programs now you are changing goal posts?

            • Flying SquidOP
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              18 months ago

              This post has always been about bloated defense budgets and all I have been talking about is bloated defense budgets. I didn’t move any goal posts. That is a lie.