• Drusas@fedia.io
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    18 hours ago

    For once? Are you not familiar with the whole situation in Ukraine?

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        11 hours ago

        I agree we should just straight up bomb the fuck out of Russia and assassinate Putin.

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          1 hour ago

          Finally, someone around here speaking my language.

          Bare minimum we should be leveraging cyber power if we aren’t going full kinetic.

          Fuck Russia.

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          2 hours ago

          Counter-point, we should scale our involvement in the whole thing waaaay back and spend that money on things like infrastructure, healthcare, and education.

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah. We should be giving them more. But at least e we’re giving some.

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          12 hours ago

          No it doesn’t. Most are government contracts and funding is from congress. A completely different pot from the defense budget. We don’t sell U.S. weapons to foreign countries. We sell them watered down versions.

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            11 hours ago

            Wait, so your premise hangs on thinking that synonyms mean different things?

            Imagine, for a moment, me waving my hands over my head while bobbling my head back and forth in a syncopated rhythm, as I walk away, muttering. “Oh, but the defense budget isn’t the military budget!” “No, we’re just pretending colloquialisms don’t exist for the purposes of this argument.” “There’s always at least one!”