The US government spent $98,000 a minute on nuclear weapons
Shocker! the US government is evil
Hiiii, I went to housing court twice this week and it was not fun. I wish celebrating Juneteenth as a holiday meant that we were not at the mercy of landlords and their agents (judges). Today I’m sharing my feelings about the so-called US government spending $98,000 a minute on nuclear weapons in 2023. Onto the new…
News that made me feel like I’m better at budgeting than the government
The United States government spent 98,000 dollars a minute on nuclear weapons in 2023. Go ahead and pick up your jaw from the floor and pat yourself on the back for not being as bad of a budgeter as a whole government. Here I felt guilty spending 50 cents a day on gushers because I was high thinking there is no worse way to spend money. Turns out my money was going towards something much worse. I should have been more worried about how much money I was spending on nuclear weapons. I’m glad that I didn’t know this news back then because nothing ruins your high more than a reminder that you are being forced to pay for bombs.
Spending 51.5 billion dollars on nuclear bombs while 50% of people in the so-called United States of America can’t afford their rent and homelessness is at a record high is quite a bold move. By bold move I mean extremely evil, but what else do you expect from an evil empire. No one has ever said that the evil empire is actually pretty nice unless they are a weapons manufacturer. Weapons manufacturers love bombs, which is why they “spent over $118 million to lobby government officials and support think tanks” leading to 8 billion dollars in contracts “to support nuclear weapons” all over the world.
Surprise! Corporations bribe politicians and “smart people” so the government can pay them to make nuclear bombs! Okay this is not a surprise if you are me because I already know that corporations and the governments are besties who discuss how to make hell hotter for us during brunch. If this is surprising to you, feel free to scream into the abyss and start thinking about what you can do in your everyday life to fight against the evil empire. The abyss generally doesn’t respond but the screaming feels good.
I simply refuse to accept a world where my labor is used to harm other people when I want to use my labor to love and take care of people. You should refuse to accept this world too. Being forced to pay taxes to an entity that does exactly the opposite of what is good for humanity is not my purpose. My purpose is to love others, make art, and compliment people’s outfits. I sometimes like to smoke weed too but I don’t want to claim that as a purpose. I view that more as a side hustle.
I don’t know what your purpose is but no one’s purpose is to labor on this rock to build weapons of destruction. No one’s purpose is to wake up every morning and spend their time making sure nuclear bombs are built. So if you are in this line of work, the first thing you can do for yourself and humanity is to quit your job and spend the rest of your life convincing everyone who you know to quit too. Even if it makes brunch very uncomfortable, do it until they quit or stop inviting you to brunch.
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