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[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 1 points 32 minutes ago

Clearly fake, there's no raptor anywhere.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I would be curious how much these missiles are marked up.

It can't actually cost like $14.9 million in materials and production costs and then $100k profit for the company can it?

I wonder if it's like $5million production cost and then $10million profit

[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I'm pretty sure these are one of those "it costs $1 million to manufacture and then 14 million to guarantee they work and everything is documented." things.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Is warhead the cheapest part? Should it be made of gold or diamonds maybe?

[–] anas@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Money for schools

Oh, that money is definitely going to schools.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 12 points 19 hours ago

It's getting there fast and making a large impact.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Schools, Research Centers, Cancer Drug Manufacturing, Orphanages ...

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

It's a turbojet engine tho

[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, it’s full of toxic fuels.

The money is actually going to defense contractors, an obscene percentage of which goes to like one guy who probably hunts poor people for fun on the weekends.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The money is actually going to

It's not about who receives the money, it's about where that money would have went if it wasn't put in the missile.

[–] MerryJaneDoe@piefed.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With respect, it's also about who receives the money.

RTX makes the Tomahawk.

In 2016, the stock was at 59. Now it's at almost 200. A return of 338%. That's about the same rate of return as the S&P 500 in the same timeframe. The difference being, the worst performing stocks in the S&P are regularly swapped out.

So, yeah, these guys are pretty much a sure bet to make money.

[–] MerryJaneDoe@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

When you're a billionaire, pretty much everyone else is a poor people... and, as an added bonus, you get to use Tomahawk missiles to hunt them.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

Funding at the federal level is never an either/or choice, it’s an active, explicit declaration of what the administration wants.

Perpetuating this specious framing provides cover for malignant sociopaths.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The money for children's cancer research goes into ballrooms.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a myth that the US could fund it's healthcare if it didn't fund the military. This is because we already spend more on healthcare than the military already. By a lot.

Medicare alone has a similar budget to the entire Pentagon!

We're not too cheep for healthcare, we're getting ripped off!

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

We spend more on health care per person and have worse outcomes than any country in the global north.

That has a lot to do with privatizing all our medical facilities and wasting a ton of money through private insurance.

We spend more on healthcare than the government spends on the military, the government does not.

Kills people.

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The rocket is the real tyrant.

[–] null@lemmy.org 2 points 1 day ago

Where's the CUM tank?

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago