I think you're confusing "oligarchy" with "authoritarian"... one doesn't necessarily imply or require the other.
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Oligarchy is a heirarchical power structure where a privileged minority holds power over large parts of society. It's a type of authoritarianism
Lol what a based meme. $249 to lockheed but the $12 triggers the rant.
They are all evil but one is also loud and obnoxious
Authoritarianism is when taxes pay for defense and civil space program?
Yeah I get it, out military is bloated, does bad things, and we keep the industrial complex going buy selling weapons to almost anyone who will buy them.
The government paying SpaceX to build rockets is not authoritarianism.
You could attribute any payment, no matter how corrupt, to “national defense and a civil space program.”
The Ukraine war has demonstrated what a military asset Starlink is. You can control drones in real time with no direct line of sight.
Well the sad reality of the world is u need weapons otherwise ull get ukrained by some imperialists. And the economic benefits from production of scale means the more countries putting into the same pot to build the same interoperable systems makes it cheaper for everyone.
The US is bordered by friendly nations on the north and south, oceans on the east and west, and has a stockpile of thousands of potentially world ending nukes. You could cut the pentagons budget down to the price of a big Mac and fries and nobody would be able to invade.
Sir have u heard of plane or perhaps boat?
Yes. Have you heard of fuel and supply chains? D-day nearly failed, and the allies had a staging ground right across the channel. Turns out amphibious assaults against an entrenched enemy are really hard.
Not if they are defenceless except for a big mac.
They're not. The US has as many privately owned guns as it does people. The idea behind arming the populace was (drumroll please) to repel foreign invasions.
Also, the military weapons we've stockpiled for decades, making up the largest armory in the world by a wide margin, aren't going to vanish into thin air if you cut the pentagons budget.
Finally, if the US faced an existential threat they'd unload on the aggressor with nukes.
Nobody's going to invade the mainland US. They'd be stupid to try and they'd end up getting wiped out.
As someone who doesnt live in the use who relies on there global dominance for freedom they better keep selling us weapons.
You could fund your own defense, so we could get some of the social programs you're always throwing in our faces.
Ahh thats just the thing we give money to the Americans they send us weapons. Both our and ur weapons are cheaper because economy of scale. You lack of basic human rights stems from your nations complete moral, ethical, social, economical, and political corruption. U are already allocating the money for social benefits its just all getting lost in the pipeline of corruption. Look at the homelessness and prison system what breed of retarded decided to have economic incentives for both those.
Know what would be even cheaper? Not making weapons to carry our allies who refuse to pay their fair share
This is literally trumps talking point about NATO congradulations.
The man talks non stop, he was bound to be right about something eventually
*paying SpaceX way less for rocket launches than they would any of their competitors.
SpaceX, Musk or not, has tremendously reduced the cost to launch stuff to LEO. I'd rather give SpaceX $12 than ULA $24 for fewer launches.
Why are we focusing on musk when 150 went to a war profiteering company? And 90 to a company that kills it's whistleblowers? Rn musk seems like the least of our worries
Wow, government contractors get paid by the government which translates to your tax dollars. That money bought things. How the money made from businesses gets distributed and what the government spends money on are totally different discussions. What a stupid fucking meme.
i don't fucking want the government buying those things in the first place
"... and what the government spends money on are totally different discussions"
It's not~
It very obviously is considering no part of the meme specified any type of good or service and the one thing it decided to single out is SpaceX funding which is literally NASA. Is your hot take on this meme that we should defund NASA and you are opposed to the Artemis program? Or do you just not like Musk or are diverting to the defense spending which was clearly not the focus of the meme?
I don't care about the last half the meme, being that that's just an appeal to pathos against Musk. I care about the first $336 mentioned and that it's largely for military spending that I do not want.
Yeah, I agree, you should make a less stupid meme that focuses on that.