this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Accurate except for the “instead” part. Road maintenance comes from local taxes, whereas military aid comes from federal taxes.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago

Sorry about all the broken veterans with TBIs. We could have invested in better healthcare infrastructure, TBI treatment research even better armor and helmets for our troopers dealing routinely with IEDs. But instead we got experimental tanks with active camo, a shitty plane which we're phasing out and aid to Israel to perpetuate their ancient religious genocide program.

It's just that US soldiers are poor and expendible and people with money tell us who and what is important.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And there are literal laws of nature that would prevent that from ever changing.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, potholes in my area get fixed pretty quickly, because the local government takes its job relatively seriously.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Really hoping self-healing asphalt tech advances quickly in the next decade.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

That must be nice.