the cold war never ended, it was just privatized

That fancy helmet has all kinds of advanced features like a built-in HUD and the ability to control "high off-boresight" air to air missiles, which will be endlessly useful in a hypothetical war with a vague, theoretical enemy... It also breaks the neck of the pilot if she ever needs to eject.

Meanwhile we are told that price controls and subsidies for insulin, nationalized production of vaccines and PPE, emergency construction of hospital facilities, and public healthcare in general are economically infeasible, even while a real biological enemy stalks the streets and over half a million people die avoidable deaths while the rest are left maimed possibly for life... Let alone the mass deaths due to vaccine apartheid

Then it's bailouts, subsidies, and no-compete contracts for the precious capitalists... and austerity for families that are forced to "temporarily camp out" in their cars because they can no longer afford to live anywhere after their house burned down—federalism for states that burn worse and get drier year after year...

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.