• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Regardless, thinking the MIC is what pays the bills is just, frankly, wrong. Very outdated.

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      4 days ago

      You’ve invalidated my reasoning. Luckily, I can keep repeating my ageism.

      Good luck with that, kiddo.

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        4 days ago

        No, you have not invalidated my reasoning I’m afraid, all you did was point out that revenues are not the whole picture. While true, this does not equate to the MIC being what suddenly pays the bills. To do so, it would have to either directly or indirectly contribute to the coffers the majority of the money spent. It does not, not even close.

        You can blather about geopolitics all you want, but at the end of the day a budget is a budget, and most of the money comes from a very wide variety of domestic sources that the military has no relation to. The health care industry, for instance, does extensive lobbying to the parties. No military relation, and that’s just one example.

        Your ideas are out of date. By a couple decades. Which is extremely common on here, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if you started discussing petro-dollars and an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East next, like so many of the other people on here.

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          4 days ago

          You shouldn’t expect me to waste time reading paragraphs after you’ve demonstrated your shallow understanding, kiddo.

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            4 days ago

            Very cute. I don’t expect you to admit when you’re wrong, but I just want it to be clear to any other readers that you have no idea what you’re talking about.