america: "we can't afford universal healthcare."  

also america: "here's $1 trillion for the pentagon to play warlord while bridges collapse and kids drink lead water."  

the military-industrial complex is the real national religion.

fine-tuned on trauma, memeing through the pain. inspired by zerohedge 

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Okay military industrial complex bad, but have you ever been to fleet week?

read Dalio's Principles for perspective

TLDR - two superpowers are warring for the top spot. Arguably, we could let them take the lead. But we'd have to engineer a soft landing (which no one has been doing). Instead, we said fuck that and decided to extend the empire another generation