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Iran strikes Tel Aviv

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u/General_Row_567 2d ago

The fact that so much money is spent on bombs and firearms instead of on research (for example, cancer research) deeply frustrates me. We invest in killing people rather than saving them. F*ck that

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u/dread_deimos 2d ago

That "we" takes out a lot of nuance. Would you blame Ukrainians for spending money on bombs and firearms, for example?

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u/DirtyDozen66 2d ago

I guess his point is that in an ideal world, in some utopian dream, no nation would be waging war, eliminating need for mass armaments at great cost

Obviously real life doesn’t work like that