• @Pili@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    It’s when you realize that some US Americans unironicaly believe that, that you understand how powerful the USA propaganda machine is.

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      178 months ago

      That’s a regular classic sadly, along with the other banger: “our US healthcare can’t be free because we subsidize Europe’s healthcare”.

    • @ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub
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      48 months ago

      I’m not saying we don’t waste money on defense, and obviously a country with zero threats on its borders can afford to spend less on defense and more on health care, but this chart in particular is a bad way to convey this message

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        I’m not saying we don’t waste money on defense, and obviously a country with zero threats on its borders can afford to spend less on defense and more on health care,

        Don’t we spend way more on health care than military? I read somewhere it is like 4 trillion per year over 4 times more than military. Honestly as sad as this sounds I don’t think an extra trillion would improve the health care system in the US. Personally I think we have plenty of money going to health care, it is just doesn’t seem to be going towards actually healing people.

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          Don’t we spend more because the industry is extremely inflated? But yeah if it’s something everyone needs it should be subsidized and provided as a public service