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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 13 points 9 hours ago

This will be the War that breaks the USA. Ukraine is breaking Russia by utilizing new tech to make the older weapons of war ineffective. Now Iran is going to use inexpensive weapons to prove that US tech is actually behind the time. This will destroy the US war machine and cripple all that war spending.

It was a really, really, REALLY stupid move from a really, really, REALLY stupid regime.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I'm sorry, BUT,

It's than.

Than is used when comparing, then would be "first we pay for war, then healthcare".

I'm sorry. It's petty but it's my only grammar thing.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I see you corrected some grammar than made me feel bad about it. Nice.

[–] Bratosch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

How dare you

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Or, $3 per day per American, $6 per taxpayer.

Just putting that out there because people are really bad at understanding / contextualizing huge numbers.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

That’s enough to build homes for more than 3,000 American families per day. Instead, it’s being used on mass murder.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 31 points 17 hours ago

$1 billion a day? That's more than I make in a month!!!

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 79 points 22 hours ago

there's always money for war

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 9 points 16 hours ago

That's a small price to pay to keep the pedophile king in power.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 47 points 22 hours ago (4 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 43 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

[Hurrah, die Butter ist alle! Goering in seiner Hamburger Rede: Erz hat stets ein Reich stark gemacht Butter und Schmalz haben hochstens ein Volk fett gemacht".]

[Hurrah, the butter's all gone! Goering in his Hamburg speech: "Ore has always made an empire strong; butter and lard have at best fattened a people."]

Edit: I just can't get over how appropriate this is for this time and place. This is exactly how we'd criticize a Republican by portraying a MAGA family. There are so many people fueling their overtime grind with overnight oats to keep the war machine going. I don't know what else to say aside from, "They should stop that."

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 5 points 19 hours ago

I just can't get over how appropriate this is for this time and place.

You could literally use the ai factory with fat people images with this text, it's spot on.

[–] shifting9810@lemmy.mrpostman.ch 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Funny that Goering would say that. A guy known to be fat.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Rules for thee, not for me. Another thing that never changes.

[–] Blemgo@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Translation for those not speaking German:

Hooray, the butter is gone!

Goering in his speech in Hamburg: Ore has always strengthened a nation, butter and lard only made it fat at best.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 21 hours ago

when the first blitzkrieg goes so well you kinda go overboard

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Or distribution of surplus food to the masses, or permanent housing for the homeless...

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

that's the shittiest part, it's not even "making more food for poor people" it's "get the exiting food to hungry people"

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I was gonna say that seems really high but I forgot to factor in price gouging and back scratching from military companies

[–] swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It honestly seems low. The patriot interceptor system costs $1B each and each rocket fired to attempt to intercept an incoming missile costs $4M.

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And the current interceptor doctrine is to fire two interceptors at each incoming missile, so we're shooting $8 million at every $50k Iranian missile. We're weeks at best from running out, and Iran makes more missiles in a month than we make interceptors in a year. That's not even considering things like the Shahed drones which the Pentagon has already said we don't have a good answer for.

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I'm sure the Department of ~~defense~~ war planned for this .... right? .... RIGHT?