@rbreich I wonder if there are any issues in the world that might make us think military superiority is something desirable 🤔🤔🤔

@tonic @rbreich there’s superior and there’s “spending a non-trivial fraction of GDP on weapons and marerials we don’t use. It’s mostly slush money being funneled to defense contractors.

@unsaturated @rbreich so you’re saying it’s bad we don’t use the weapons but I don’t agree 😅🤷🏻‍♂️ meanwhile , there’s a case for having them : they’re what’s standing between our local naive socialists and our very cynical and violent foreign adversaries … I remember when folks were saying anti missile defense was too expensive and making us less safe because we diminished MAD with the Russians … color me unconvinced 😅🤷🏻‍♂️

@tonic @rbreich I’m saying we are getting fleeced by defense contractors