The money is there, or was..

[otyugh@pouet.chapril.org]

@stux <3

"Breakthrough ! The 10th billion spent on weaponry since the beginning of the year ! Rejoice citizens ! Freedom and security is at hand ! (surely)"

[trebach@functional.cafe]

@stux Having "Fortunate Son" in the background was a nice touch

[nd3jr@social.coop]

@stux And yet when the federal budget comes up there's no shortage of cheerleaders in our mainstream media screaming that we can't cut the defense budget and arguing that we should cut everything for common people.

[tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one]

@stux i was laughing so hard. US govt really fucking over the american people. shit...don't even have health care. i feel bad for those living in USA.

ALWAYS money for war though.

[mark_self@mastodon.social]

@stux omg

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@tootbrute @stux Everything here is a scam.

Sincerely,
A US Citizen

[argonaut@mastodon.social]

@stux @rudy
The U.S. Has Burned Through Over $2.4 Billion Worth of Patriot Missile Interceptors in Just Five Days of War with Iran

“the United States Army has expended over 800 anti-ballistic missiles from MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence systems during just five days of hostilities with Iran”

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-patriot-interceptors-five-days-iran

[kwadranten@social.vivaldi.net]

@stux Razor sharp stux!

[rahibyagub@mastodon.social]

@stux @akaxredd

[verymetalsite@mastodon.social]

@stux

Wait till the mob discovers their retirement money has been invested in Bitcoin piramid schemes and *no benefits* will be issued. At_all.

"Took ya only a lifetime to find out what buggers we are, didn't ya gramps!?"

Glorious futures *everywhere*

[cafechatnoir@mastodon.social]

@stux

They definitely show their colors on the spending side of things. And when you consider that especially at the federal level here, money just isn't even real - it's just pixels on a screen. We could do anything we wanted for the people - we just don't want to.

(Oh, and let me tell you, when you work for a company that makes accounting software and say, "money isn't real" - that will really weird some people out, LOL.)

[blindy@convo.casa]

@stux Yes, endless wars like the one we are in now. And here we are again, getting involved in another one that we have no business in getting involved in.

[tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one]

@mrgrumpymonkey @stux good movies though. USA looks incredible on Netflix, HBO, and other hollywood shows.

[murdoc@autistics.life]

@stux
And this is only the tip of the iceburg. If we stopped using an inherently scarce medium like money to count for things, we could afford to let everyone have a high standard of living, in a way that was both sustainable and environmentally friendly. But that would mean no ridiculously rich people so...

(edit: typo)

[violetmadder@kolektiva.social]

@stux

The money is ALWAYS there, the very instant it's decided a central bank should snap its fingers and pull it out of thin air.

... And it's only inflationary, IF it is spent on something that doesn't have real value (like, oh, say, toxic smoking craters).

[powerfromspace1@mstdn.social]

@stux truth ☝️

[akaxredd@mastodon.social]

@rahibyagub @stux send tabj

[riverpunk@defcon.social]

@stux even before thinking about how much the US spends on actual weapons and military stuff, it's important to realize how much is simply *wasted* because it's getting skimmed off the top by contractors, inefficiency, or just straight up fraud.

One of the consequences of having a functionally infinite funding stream for a department is that nobody involved thinks of money as a scarce resource, and so they walk the department into fuckass rip-offs.

Recently read a pretty good Cory Doctorow post talking about this.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/#:~:text=Turning,business,-%21

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@gettie I posit being Republican is worse because they're like this even without war so billionaires can exist.

@stux

[duncan_blues@norden.social]

@stux
Ferengi rule of acquisition 34: War is good for business.