We spend tens of billions on defense of America. But if we spend nothing on education, the arts, science, museums, and libraries, what are we even defending? What is the American way of life without those things? - ThreadSky

rebekahwriter.bsky.social • 1 day ago

We spend tens of billions on defense of America.

But if we spend nothing on education, the arts, science, museums, and libraries, what are we even defending?

What is the American way of life without those things?

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duke715.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great point.

typecast2.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Golf and sexual assault? Oh, and McDonald’s and Diet Coke binge gluttony.

rkbrown2230.bsky.social•1 day ago

And the money for defense isn't going to our defense anymore. It's actually being used right now to prepare for war against our old allies and against us.

danimx.bsky.social•7 hours ago

NEVER FORGET WE ARE IN A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS BECAUSE 77 million DERANGED POORLY EDUCATED MISINFORMED BRAINWASHED EXTREMELY IGNORANT RACIST HOMOPHOBIC CHRISTIAN NOTZIS, & 67% of VETS VOTED FOR A CHILD πOLESTING ADJUDICATED €RAPIST TWICE IMPEACHED CON ARTIST CROOK & CRIMINAL WITH 34 FELONIES

foggyganj.bsky.social•1 day ago

We become an American version of isolationist North Korea.
Musk is currently dismantling everything about this country that made this country America.
And the Pentagon as usual got even more billions this year. 150 billion more. They’re now at 850 billion for the year.

vargulfen.com•8 hours ago

We spend hundreds of billions..but who’s counting? The DoD certainly ain’t!

resistancematters.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Need to keep the followers dumb...

scootrbum.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The defense industry.

lynndaniels.bsky.social•1 day ago

That trillion dollar defense budget is going to defend Putin and other authoritarian regimes!

lynndaniels.bsky.social•1 day ago

Very true!

dooleyappointed.bsky.social•1 day ago

"The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them… Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due." - Churchill.

Ill fares the race!

aint2old2run.bsky.social•8 hours ago

What a great perspective!

fedupinmo.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Excellent point!

longleggy1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Working from birth to grave to make sure our overlords have the lifestyles to which they are accustomed.

ealmquist.bsky.social•1 day ago

"That's how we're gonna win. Not by fighting what we hate. But saving what we love." - Rose Tico

gmcginnis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly

buttsneeze.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have a mental image of some MAGA prepper in his bunker underground, tweaking out on caffeine pills and MREs, rocking back and forth clutching an AK-47 to his chest like a teddy bear, waiting to be "invaded." And he's just there, forever.

susanhendrick.bsky.social•1 day ago

Education, the arts, science,, museums, libraries, USAID, and the things they are cutting are exactly the things that make this country great. Not putting Trump on our currency or giving everything to the wealthy.

beyonddriveneh.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I’ll take “The Dark Ages Revisited” for $200, Alex.

peakingsassy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nothing. It becomes the North Korean way of life.

sunnidae.bsky.social•1 day ago

We're defending the oligarchs. It's all in service of them, according to them. :(

qunniq.bsky.social•7 hours ago

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benwrightatl.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Production and consumption!

elam13.bsky.social•1 day ago

That is truth!

wwjerrydo.bsky.social•1 day ago

A cattle farm. With location tags on all the livestock.

That's the America they want.

toiletjuf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cattle tags and remote controls. 📲

resistfascism2024.bsky.social•8 hours ago

We are defending Peter Theil’s, Elon Musk’s and the GOP’s way of life. 💩

fishladyabs.bsky.social•1 day ago

Capitalist-led wage slavery?
Followed by a return to *actual* slavery?

What could be more American than that?

riversoflight.bsky.social•1 day ago

The wealth and power of white men.

marwood13.bsky.social•1 day ago

Racism, misogyny, football, and God

lifelearn.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Nothing!

socalbookish.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I would add health care to your beautiful statement

kateprotests.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Please…! We need that money for the American War Complex (but definitely not for Ukraine) and so Elmo can play with his rockets. 🚀

jm0278.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The arts are extremely important. But I don't want the government involved. Support of the arts is and should be done with private funds. Defense of the people and their land is the primary mission of government. While expensive, there has been no real war on North American soil in over a century.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I wrote my masters thesis on how government support for the creative sector generates favorable macroeconomic outcomes, so I disagree with your second sentence.