Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year

Re:Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in o... by rayiner on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:12AM (#47960806)

It’s not liberal versus conservative. I’m a liberal on this. I support SNAP. It’s a generous benefit and that’s okay with me. We should give parents plenty of money to make sure their kids can eat.

Your position isn’t just liberal, it’s post-liberal. You’re saying that it’s not enough to have cash benefits that gives parents reasonable choices in feeding their kids. It’s not about having broad-based policies that work for the typical person in need. It’s a post-liberalism that’s obsessed with changing systems that work for normal people to cater to the most dysfunctional few percent of the population.

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Re:Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in o... by anigbrowl on Friday May 01, 2026 @02:20PM (#47978154)

Bullshit. Free school lunches for all are a simple, bureaucracy-minimizing way to ensure that all kids get fed while they're at school without discrimination (eg treating poor kids conspicuously differently). You said in an adjacent subthread that you'd love if there were universal school lunches like in Japan, then cooked up a bunch of abstract reasons for why that 'isn't possible.' If you think it's a good thing, then there's no need to stand in the way of it.

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