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

  • @[email protected]
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    1102 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        272 years ago

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

        • @Zehzin
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          2 years ago

          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

          • @[email protected]
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            72 years ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 years ago

              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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                32 years ago

                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.

      • @PunnyName
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        22 years ago

        Plenty of government employees wanted that very thing.

        Including that Al Gore guy.

      • @[email protected]
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        252 years ago

        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.