• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What’s ‘tanky’ is arguing for your own impoverishment, which is what you’re doing when you try to defend our country spending a trillion a year on war in ten other countries.

    And then another 100+ billion on another country’s war, that we’re not even fighting in. That 100 billion could keep people cool in a heat wave, or fix a state’s broken power grid, or put clean water in Flint, Michigan. But no, you’d rather we neglect our own people instead.

    War spending is 100% why we don’t have universal health care in this country, and we are the only country dropping a trillion-plus a year.

    • hark@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It is kind of funny that people throw around the word “tankie” so meaninglessly when the US has the largest military spending in the world by far and is thus literally the most “tankie” i.e. enforcing their will with military might.