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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago

Do we know an artist?

[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 1 points 18 hours ago

Clearly fake, there's no raptor anywhere.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would be curious how much these missiles are marked up.

It can't actually cost like $14.9 million in materials and production costs and then $100k profit for the company can it?

I wonder if it's like $5million production cost and then $10million profit

[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure these are one of those "it costs $1 million to manufacture and then 14 million to guarantee they work and everything is documented." things.

[–] anas@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Money for schools

Oh, that money is definitely going to schools.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

It's getting there fast and making a large impact.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Schools, Research Centers, Cancer Drug Manufacturing, Orphanages ...

[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well, it’s full of toxic fuels.

The money is actually going to defense contractors, an obscene percentage of which goes to like one guy who probably hunts poor people for fun on the weekends.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The money is actually going to

It's not about who receives the money, it's about where that money would have went if it wasn't put in the missile.

[–] MerryJaneDoe@piefed.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With respect, it's also about who receives the money.

RTX makes the Tomahawk.

In 2016, the stock was at 59. Now it's at almost 200. A return of 338%. That's about the same rate of return as the S&P 500 in the same timeframe. The difference being, the worst performing stocks in the S&P are regularly swapped out.

So, yeah, these guys are pretty much a sure bet to make money.

[–] MerryJaneDoe@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

When you're a billionaire, pretty much everyone else is a poor people... and, as an added bonus, you get to use Tomahawk missiles to hunt them.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Is warhead the cheapest part? Should it be made of gold or diamonds maybe?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago

trump would definitely fund it if it were a gaudy missile. it would probably be useless since gold is heavy.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The money for children's cancer research goes into ballrooms.

It's a turbojet engine tho

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Funding at the federal level is never an either/or choice, it’s an active, explicit declaration of what the administration wants.

Perpetuating this specious framing provides cover for malignant sociopaths.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's a myth that the US could fund it's healthcare if it didn't fund the military. This is because we already spend more on healthcare than the military already. By a lot.

Medicare alone has a similar budget to the entire Pentagon!

We're not too cheep for healthcare, we're getting ripped off!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

most of its being subsidized by govt, via insurance companies its just that people never benefit from thsoe taxes paid, via through medical procedures, hospitals, medication that are from private corporations. besides they have low cost health insurance for service members, which is universal(tricare),

medicaid/care is the govt already negotatited prices(which should be the norm) that keeps cost low. besides other countries also have private healthcare if the public version is too slow. you can have both.

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

We spend more on health care per person and have worse outcomes than any country in the global north.

That has a lot to do with privatizing all our medical facilities and wasting a ton of money through private insurance.

We spend more on healthcare than the government spends on the military, the government does not.

Kills people.

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The rocket is the real tyrant.

[–] null@lemmy.org 2 points 2 days ago

Where's the CUM tank?

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago