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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 13

    emptywheel Retweeted Brian Trautman

    Reminder, the F-35 is our industrial policy. We could have an industrial policy that addressed climate change, and/or worked on intl competitiveness. Instead we have a shitty plane that doesn't work very well. https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/12/01/industrial-policy-f-35/ …https://twitter.com/brianjtrautman/status/1029124464024477696 …

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    Brian Trautman @brianjtrautman
    The U.S. now spends more on its military than the next 11 countries combined. This war bill includes $7.6 billion for 77 of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, $284 million for the THAAD missile defense system, & authorizes Trump's military parade. #NDAA #TrumpInUpstate https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1029115308995502080 …
    3:00 PM - 13 Aug 2018
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      1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 13

        I'd admit that "shitty plane that doesn't work very well" is redundant, except I'm going to treat it, instead, as a second opportunity to bill taxpayers.

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      2.  🌊ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® 🌊 🤘🏼‏ @TimForgot Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Climate change is actually our primary national security threat. Every future conflict we encounter will be, like Syria, directly attributable to climate change. It will be the most destabilizing force for the foreseeable future. We may as well have invested in horses and canons.

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      3.  🌊ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® 🌊 🤘🏼‏ @TimForgot Aug 13
        Replying to @TimForgot @emptywheel

        And, at the very least, we could have spent on information security. A billion bucks would buy the best hackers in the world; a hundred billion $$ would buy *all* of them.

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      2. Michael Licari, Esq.‏ @MlicariEsq Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Our defense spending will be the end of us.

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      3. msstma‏ @Msstma Aug 13
        Replying to @MlicariEsq @emptywheel

        That is what actually brought down the USSR. Wonder whose idea it was for us to up our spending?

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      4. Michael Licari, Esq.‏ @MlicariEsq Aug 13
        Replying to @Msstma @emptywheel

        I am weary of Russian influence but we have an insane military industrial complex that pushes spending in the name of patriotism like no other group. While other developed and developing nations are innovating, we are spending on wars that no one else cares about.

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      1. cascadia‏ @bonzosa Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel

        we lost over a trillion dollars developing an F-35 that's inferior to the already developed F-22. That's a lot of healthcare and education for children right there down the drain.

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      2. wickedzeus‏ @wickedzeus75 Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel

        But it’s invisible!

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      1. Zach Kindt‏ @zkindt Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel

        military industrial complex actualized

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      1. S(pooky)‏ @vidiot_ Aug 14
        Replying to @emptywheel @brianvan

        I'm a little disappointed you didn't include the phrase "as anyone can see" in this tweet.

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      1. Tara Gragg‏ @TheRulingClass1 Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel @EricJafMN

        I drove on of these.pic.twitter.com/59m9m9HECM

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      1. Kelly Shaw‏ @steelers88us Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel @Nomdeeee

        I wish no country had a military. Yet, our spending suggests we are still fighting the Cold War. We need foot soldiers, unfortunately.

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      2. 2 Scoops!‏ @Trump2scoops Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel

        You don’t know shit about military aircraft

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      3. serious political scientist‏ @HongPong Aug 13
        Replying to @Trump2scoops @emptywheel

        Being unable to turn your head is a feature not a bug yay

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      1. Darwin Woodka‏ @darwinwoodka Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel

        by happenstance it also cost us satellite internet at home and on planes. Long story....

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      1. Spaceface‏ @occasionalities Aug 13
        Replying to @emptywheel

        The F35 - this thing does everything but fly.pic.twitter.com/RlW4xknPP5

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