https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1662658255418703873?
Mass media for the public, and everyone who knows it’s going to the rich are paid by the people making money
IIRC it was ~$13.5 Billion could alleviate world hunger for 10 years. $85B to wipe it out sounds about right.
885 billion for rich military contractors, meanwhile the same “deal” forces us back into student loan debt this fall
fuck em
ITER, from 2007-2025, being funded by the EU and 7 other major countries, cost $45 billion.
I truly can’t overstate how Biden’s been the worst president of my life outside of maaaaaybe George W Bush. Trump was significantly less bad.
We have to purge all our 1970's-90's weapons that we made in a hypothetical war with them first in some proxy burn pit nation. Then spend 20 years jacking up the military budget even more to uild hyper laser rail bazinga and build AUKUS.
THEN right when the boomer hold outs last die off and we've propagandized the Millennials, zoomers, and their grandkiids, and it seems like we might have a window to do something for the disintigrading shithole infrastructure around 2040ish....WW3 BABY!
I hope there's a round of memes slamming the $85 billion increase in the hand out to the MIC while Republicans cry about spending.,
