• Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 month ago

        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.

        • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 month ago

          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!”