• sqgl@beehaw.orgOP
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    11 months ago

    I once did the sums to calculate that USA could have afforded a run a gun buyback scheme (like Australia) rather than invade Iraq, you know… to cut down on Americans killing Americans.

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      11 months ago

      I did the sums, and the US would have been able to fund a large moonbase for the next century, mine asteroids AND seriously begin colonising Mars.

      But instead of becoming an interplanetary power, the US chose to blow up brown farmers.

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        11 months ago

        And accomplished nothing for the people there, within 2 months it was as bad as it ever was before the US came.