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I’m shocked by the amount of taxpayer money gone to waste. So many unsuccessful projects, the infamous incompetence of Big Tech looks like nothing compared to US military industrial complex’s.

So this was where all the surplus of Western civilization was going to for the last 3/4 of a century. Now the surplus is no more, and soon to turn negative as the critical resources and energy sources run out, I hope the US loses its global dominance as soon as possible. I’m sorry, but at no point in time have they been just rulers over planet Earth. Entire countries of mine have been demolished and entire populations have been killed/forced to migrate, so that you can buy the new Xbox to your child, and your neighbor can buy a new yacht.




If anything, the numbers in the article undersell the scale of waste.

Our Middle East clusterfuck has cost us at least 8 trillion dollars since 2003.

Enough to convert the entire US to clean energy, feed every hungry person on the planet, and house every homeless American. With change.

Instead it was spent on murdering millions, displacing tens of millions, and riddling generations of children with cancer and birth defects (again).

It's so, so far beyond evil and stupid that even Noam Chomsky says there's no word for it.


To be fair the US is like what 247 years old? Thats a toddler in the grand scheme of things. And the founding fathers did not have a lot of confidence in this thing lasting.

[1]:https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&...

"At the end of the Constitutional Convention, George Washington said, "I do not expect the Constitution to last for more than 20 years." Today, the United States has the oldest written constitution in the world."

If anything what the country has achieved over the years is pretty darn good. For a large part of its existence, the US also wasn't this super power that we know of today. The future is unwritten but maybe we will see an isolated US that is left to tend to only its own internal issues.




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