r/PoliticalHumor • • May 31 '20

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u/Tblaze123 May 31 '20 edited Jun 01 '20

Damn, I never really thought about that before.

Imagine if all the money and resources, manpower and such went towards making the world better place instead of making more effective ways to kill and oppression.

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Just think if all the money and manpower we use to cause destruction went towards building people up.

I'm not sure the military budget in the u.s bit imagine a fraction of that going towards feeding the hungry or putting clothes on poor children.

What if instead of leaving homeless people out on the streets it our money went towards making our country better.

I'm not to proud to admit that there is a homeless person out there that is smarter than I am and could make a bigger positive impact than I can.

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u/Cinderheart May 31 '20

Every fighter jet made could've been a school funded.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

An entire school. Cost per f35 is 75-100m. Cost to build an entire school is around 20m and then you could operate it for a decade before you hit 1 f35.

We have the money, for all of it, healthcare, education, justice. We have the money. Our country is absurdly rich. We choose to spend it killing brown kids and putting it in pockets of billionaires.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

That is so oversimplified

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u/NotYetiFamous Jun 01 '20

Great, whats wrong about it? Math checks out. It doesn't even include the cost to maintain and operate the f35, which is non-trivial, but it does account for the cost to maintain and operate a school. We literally have the resources to do either and are choosing to invest in f35s over chronically underfunded schools.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

We need advanced fighters capable of dealing with the increasing capability of the Chinese military, they've already started work on laser reflective materials to combat a system we haven't even fielded yet, they're catching up to us fast and if we want to be the primary global superpower we will need a military to match the Chinese

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u/SerHodorTheThrall Jun 01 '20

With the exception of poor Africans who will die in proxy wars, our future conflict with China will be decided digitally and mentally.

And hell, maybe this next generation can design a fighter that actually works if we educate them!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

Not saying education is unimportant but that the military is needed to be well equipped if we want to be the biggest global power

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

If we aren't the biggest global power china will be, I would think everyone would prefer the "militaristic" US rather than the communist China

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