Man, CIWS platforms are so cool.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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They're also saving you money. You spend $1000 on ammunition to prevent the sinking of a $1 billion ship.
It's not saving me a dime, it ain't my $1 billion ship.
It's a ship your tax dollars would go to replace if it sunk.
And if it doesn't get sunk, my tax dollars would just go to building another ship.
Maybe, but that isn't as certain as replacing a sunk ship.
The government spends every dime it can on the military anyway. If they could squeeze more to replace a ship they would already be squeezing more to build a new one. They already spend as much as the next nine countries combined.
If the war machine was going to grind to a halt just because they had "enough" ships and bombs, it would've done so already. It'll keep going, more and more forever, starting more and more conflicts just to justify lining their pockets, until they finally bite off more than they can chew and kick off nuclear armegeddon. Any of their shit that gets wrecked in their stupid, psychotic adventurism is a good thing because it slows them down from that, even if just a little.
None of it saves me a dime and even if it did I wouldn't care because my dimes won't be worth anything when they destroy the world.
the crazy thing is you could afford both, you spend more to get less, and it's universally popular
it's the most antimemetic idea in American history
They cut cancer research!
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