Spyke
ani.social

Why spend 1% at defense when you can spend 2% at offense?

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Why spend 2% at offense when you can spend 3% at nothing of any use?

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lemmy.world

Damnit.... now i remember something i miss from reddit. Srgrafo comics were always a delight.

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Breezyreply
lemmy.world

If i am not mistaken he also had a lot of his memes stripped of text to make templates for others to use. All around cool dude, i just wish he'd finish making game artwork and start making more memes.

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Breezyreply
lemmy.world

Pretty much. He got contracted out to do artwork for a visual novel. Full of lolis dressed very highly suggestive clothes or lack there of.

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lemmy.ca

We almost made it to 2%. Why is it so hard for the liberal government to tax the rich more to get there and properly support our soldiers and Ukraine.

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bl4ckbloocreply
lemmy.world

I just spent two and a half weeks in Alberta and I don’t know how many times people just randomly brought up Canada wasting money in Ukraine, and when asked about it they had nothing to say past ‘we should spend money on people that need it!’.

Fuck I hate that province.

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Windex007reply
lemmy.world

I live in AB and the only person I've heard w/ that take was a Russian expat

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bl4ckbloocreply
lemmy.world

It was a sentiment brought up randomly by about 5 of my younger brothers friends, who all grew up in the Sylvan Lake area.

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Windex007reply
lemmy.world

Your younger brother has some dumb friends.

You should intervene and make sure he's not listening to Ben Shapiro.

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I guess the Ukraine population is going to be turned against conservatism even if they may agree to it. Family is more important to them than the culture war nonsense.

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sbvreply
sh.itjust.works

And none of them are military industrial complex. Shame.

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We have plans to triple our budget in the next 5 or so years to... 1.7% we have really dropped the ball. Our forces are a joke. I'm still not sure the f-35s we bought can even operate in our artic, where we need them the most.

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To be fair, given what happens when Canadians get violent it's probably better for the rest of the world if we don't spend more on our military. They're dangerous enough already.

And I say this as someone who's married to one of them.

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lemmy.world

Since you added "liberal", do you think the Conservatives are going to increase taxes to the rich?

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I do, I’m in NDP and Green country.

But in my experience they are much less likely to take any opportunity to jab with “liberal” or “Trudeau” every time it fits in a sentence. Unlike Poilievre who uses it like the high schooler they all act like.

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lemmy.world

Now remember kids, Canada is responsible for half the Geneva convention. Do not trust Canada.

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Canada and Poland best collaboration. Wish there was an American soldier that could make funny skids about their checklist

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nukereply
sh.itjust.works

Canada is responsible for half the Geneva convention.

I know two things about Canadians. They're the nicest people I've ever met. Don't go to war against them.

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5714reply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Are Germany and Italy and Japan former intervention therapy clients then?

And France is an aunt?

Nationalism's weird.

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lemmy.world

Russia is that uncle that used to be cool, started a cult, went kinda normal after his cult fell apart, but is now neck deep in a plot to destroy you and trying to get the cult going again.

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IDK if you could call it dating. I moved out of the house, but she followed me so I had to get a restraining order. She didn't like that, and it came to blows. We finalized things with a formal separation, but she kept getting involved in my business so I had to sue her, and then she seems to have finally gotten the message.

We're on good terms now though, but it took some time for the wounds to heal.

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The nerve! Did we send a strongly worded letter with pictures of teabags held hostage above a body of water until they get their shit together?

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CptEnderreply
lemmy.world

Weren't these subs supposed to be made for the French but we fucked them over and sent the bid to Australia? Still kinda bummed about that, especially if the French deploy in Ukraine. They're great allies.

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Xerodinreply
lemm.ee

A little mixed up, there. The French were meant to have the contract to build nuclear powered subs for Australia, but the UK fucked the French by taking the contract, with some US help.

The creation of the partnership spelled the end of a French–Australian submarine deal. On 17 September 2021, France recalled its ambassadors from Australia and the US; French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called the partnership a "stab in the back"[10] following Australia's cancellation of the deal worth €56 billion (A$90 billion) without notice,[11][12][13] ending recent efforts to develop a deeper strategic partnership between France and Australia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUKUS

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AUKUS

Missed opportunity to use the acronym "AUS, U SUK"

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World's largest arms dealer strongly encourages customers to spend more money on arms, particularly the kind only the US is capable of producing.

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They could but that would mean getting a company to make a factory, get the resources and work force, and then make a quality product worth stockpiling. It's cheaper to just buy ammo through the US...unless something non credible motivated them of course

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atoccireply
kbin.social

Non Credible Defense is a military satire/shitposting sub. It's relevant, it's just the opposite of the usual shitposty takes here.

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sbvreply
sh.itjust.works

It means your original post was too well thought out. Too credible, if you will.

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Telodzrumreply
lemmy.world

You can't "overspend" on military. What even is this nonsense?

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Right, but a well thought out take like that here is like going to r/NoSleep and commenting how someone's scary story couldn't have actually happened because skinwalkers aren't real.

An NCD take would be of course Australia wants to project power like America, you can never have too much defense budget and anything else is a waste of money

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nukereply
sh.itjust.works

Basically what atocci said. We love military spending here. We simp for the MIC. This is not a forum for political debate.

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lemmy.world

That's 'cos Australia is a US state wannabe whereas Canada can think for itself

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DAMunzyreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Australia has to be careful because they have to play a game between the US and China

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Yeah, I understand. I'm a NZr, we have the same issue but with less resources

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feddit.de

How standardized is the accounting anyway? Does the US Army Corps of engineers count as military spending? Because in most countries that budget would be categorized as civil infrastructure work and not be affiliated with the military in any way.

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A big chunk of the US military's budget is on very expensive US healthcare. Something like 7% of the military's annual budget is health expenses, and that doesn't even include the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health care to veterans.

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Who’s the one we like? Looks like they’ve got some kinda weird Alaska and Hawaii flag. Are they Hawaska? /s

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