• Wogi@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Frequently those problems could be solved for the cost of a single aircraft.

    You can’t afford clean water for indigenous people because they couldn’t buy one fewer aircraft.

    You needed all 138.

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      13 hours ago

      Frequently those problems could be solved for the cost of a single aircraft.

      idk about this one, idk much about canada, but water infrastructure is more complicated than just “here’s some money” and there’s also the inevitable governmental over spending problem that seems to encroach everything.

      it’s also worth noting that we’re comparing two irrelevant things here, it’s like me comparing the worlds loudest yell to the sound of an f35 flying at altitude. Yeah they’re comparable to each other. In the sense that they both make noise.

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        And when standing on the ground, the yell is louder, even though the military spent 80 million dollars on the jet. You’d be surprised how far cash can go in the right hands. (The right hands being critical)

        I was actually basing my complaint on the comparitive cost of the B-2 stealth bomber, and the (at the time) cost of repairing the ogalala aquifer, estimated to cost about the same as the 2 billion dollar aircraft.

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      Can’t afford clean water for indigenous people when you want to exterminate indigenous people.

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        You don’t need planes for that. You just need a systematic foot on their necks. You know, like we do for the rest of the poors.

        We can’t afford another plane because we need another highway first.