• nomous@lemmy.world
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              Counter-point, we should scale our involvement in the whole thing waaaay back and spend that money on things like infrastructure, healthcare, and education.

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              Finally, someone around here speaking my language.

              Bare minimum we should be leveraging cyber power if we aren’t going full kinetic.

              Fuck Russia.

            • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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              No it doesn’t. Most are government contracts and funding is from congress. A completely different pot from the defense budget. We don’t sell U.S. weapons to foreign countries. We sell them watered down versions.

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                Wait, so your premise hangs on thinking that synonyms mean different things?

                Imagine, for a moment, me waving my hands over my head while bobbling my head back and forth in a syncopated rhythm, as I walk away, muttering. “Oh, but the defense budget isn’t the military budget!” “No, we’re just pretending colloquialisms don’t exist for the purposes of this argument.” “There’s always at least one!”

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        Toss him in prison then. Make it very public, announce that he’s being arrested for treason and cuff him at one of his rallies.

        But let’s be real here, the Supreme Court’s ruling only actually applies to the Toupee, since he’s the one who put them there.