The surreal and obscene thing is the growing astronomical cost doesn’t even matter at this point. It’s a sunk expenditure and no pol would ever actually take steps to investigate or kill the project however fucked up it is or how fucked up it gets. The cost will keep going up as they throw traincars full of cash at problems.
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Maybe when it gets to $3t the American media will suddenly remember the F-35 exists and there will be some detailed tv news investigative report. Some dipshit reporter will look earnestly at the audience and say “How is this possible? How did this happen?” As if it’s a mystery.
These types of projects make a lot more sense when you look at them as vehicles to divert tax money from stuff it’s meant for and back into the pockets of the oligarchs.
Someone was yelling at me about russia because their oligarchs steal public money and that’s not the same thing as unbelievable cost overruns on military projects and equating the two means i’m a putin shill.
Which was all very confusing because i wasn’t even talking about that.
F-35 may just be the most expensive Rube Goldberg machine ever constructed. :)
The surreal and obscene thing is the growing astronomical cost doesn’t even matter at this point. It’s a sunk expenditure and no pol would ever actually take steps to investigate or kill the project however fucked up it is or how fucked up it gets. The cost will keep going up as they throw traincars full of cash at problems.
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Maybe when it gets to $3t the American media will suddenly remember the F-35 exists and there will be some detailed tv news investigative report. Some dipshit reporter will look earnestly at the audience and say “How is this possible? How did this happen?” As if it’s a mystery.
These types of projects make a lot more sense when you look at them as vehicles to divert tax money from stuff it’s meant for and back into the pockets of the oligarchs.
Someone was yelling at me about russia because their oligarchs steal public money and that’s not the same thing as unbelievable cost overruns on military projects and equating the two means i’m a putin shill.
Which was all very confusing because i wasn’t even talking about that.
I find whenever libs hear something they don’t like their immediate reaction is to start bleating about Russia.
In bad country all dissenters are labeled foreign agents by brainwashed population.
F-22 is even more absurdly expensive, but it at least somewhat works compared to F-35.
Looks cooler, too