I posted this earlier today in the tech lemmy instance, but, they have no sense of humor and deleted it. I’m trying here.

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    You overestimate governments. But a blind dog could’ve spent it much better.

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      … he said in a post on a worldwide network whose creation the US government originally funded.

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          They only said the government were capable of doing it, not that they would be motivated by pure benevolence

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            To be fair, of the 44B, they’d use 30b to blow up children’s hospitals, give 13b to some rich fucks, 800m would disappear and the rest would fund something nice

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              Have you ever looked at US federal spending? 27% goes to healthcare, 21% goes to social security, 13% to income security, 13% to defense, then the rest is split between education, veterans benefits, transportation, and regional development/other.

              I know people like to meme the government spending, but the majority goes to healthcare, elder care, and veterans.

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                I can’t wait until Snowden resurfaces and shows us how much of that 27% healthcare actually goes to healthcare and how much is skimmed to line people’s pockets.

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                  The US healthcare industry massively over charges for everything, so they are skimming in plain sight.

                  Doesn’t change that only 13% goes to the DoD, where a fraction may be used to blow up hospitals. Not 66% as the previous poster implied.

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          Fritz Haber invented synthetic fertilizers he also developed chemical weapons during ww1. Whats your fucking point? Lots of good things were created by terrible people and lots of terrible things were created by good people.