🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to Greentext · 3 months agoAnon explains the 2nd amendmentimagemessage-square133fedilinkarrow-up1728arrow-down129
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minus-squareBreve@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up23·edit-23 months agoMilitary spending in 2023 (in billions of US dollars): United States: 916 China: 296 Russia: 109 India: 83.6 People who own a “don’t tread on me” flag: 0* (* Rounded to nearest significant figure)
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tealinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 months agoEh, Americans spend something like $10-20B per year on guns and ammo. That’s nowhere near the military budget, but it’s still a lot of guns and ammo, so the US would put up a pretty good guerrilla resistance.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoAlright, so here me out. We need guns to protect ourselves from the Chinese government. What do you say about that? Just saved you $620B
minus-squareBreve@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoI sure hope those 2nd amendment fanatics can afford the naval vessels and foreign military bases they’re going to need to get involved in the South China Sea! 💸
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 months agoYou joke, but libertarians lost a war to Tonga
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 months agoI don’t feel like Russia got a hundred billion dollars worth of military out of the hundred billion dollars they spent
Military spending in 2023 (in billions of US dollars):
United States: 916
China: 296
Russia: 109
India: 83.6
People who own a “don’t tread on me” flag: 0*
(* Rounded to nearest significant figure)
Eh, Americans spend something like $10-20B per year on guns and ammo. That’s nowhere near the military budget, but it’s still a lot of guns and ammo, so the US would put up a pretty good guerrilla resistance.
Alright, so here me out. We need guns to protect ourselves from the Chinese government. What do you say about that? Just saved you $620B
I sure hope those 2nd amendment fanatics can afford the naval vessels and foreign military bases they’re going to need to get involved in the South China Sea! 💸
You joke, but libertarians lost a war to Tonga
I don’t feel like Russia got a hundred billion dollars worth of military out of the hundred billion dollars they spent