We spend $858 billion a year on “national security,” while millions are not secure in their homes, secure in their jobs, secure they’ll get healthcare if they get sick, or secure that they will have enough food to eat, clean water to drink, or clean air to breathe. We need a radical reassessment of what the phrase “national security” should mean. It’s not enough to know another country won’t do you in, if all manner of things right here at home just might.

May 3, 2023 · 3:50 AM UTC

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"National Security" exists only to protect corporations and the rich who own them. Protecting their ability to profit off of "paying customers" disconnected from "low paid workers" and "low cost suppliers". Especially when the low-paid or low-cost is overseas.
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You are unqualified to hold the office, but thanks for advocating Democratic policies.
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Will you pardon Julian Assange?
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why is this fraud all over my feed? Williamson, you have never cared about any of these issues - these are buzz words to you and nothing more. If you care about your country stop this ego trip and support the only people who can save the country right now. Biden/Harris
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You're right. We buy too many guns.
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DoD is corporate welfare dressed up as a jobs program pretending to be national security. It also constitutes pretty much the totality of our foreign policy, which is hilarious considering how fake it is.
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Biden's administration is distracting Gen Z with abortion, student loan forgiveness & transgender issues. If gen Z doesn't start demanding peace they will be on the front lines fighting WW3 and everything else won't matter.
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I agree that military spending is severely bloated. I disagree that any of those other things should be, much less actually can be, made “secure”.
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The Orb Lady isn't wrong. If you have a nation full of insecure people, they have little hope of ever earning and building their own secure lives? Then what are they to be protecting ? What do they have to protect from the outside?
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