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April 15, 2025

Two point nine trillion dollars for the privilege of distrusting each other properly. The receipts say “defense,” but the menu clearly lists fear, with a side of habit.

We’ve polished our doomsday buttons to such a high shine you can see your reflection in them - how appropriate, since vanity’s the only thing they’ve ever defended. The generals assure us it’s all very technical, very necessary. Funny how necessity always wears a price tag that just happens to fit last year’s budget, plus ten percent.

Eleven years of growth. Like a tumor. Like a child we forgot to feed.

They’ll tell you it’s about security. It’s never about security. Security is what you promise people when you’ve run out of everything else to sell them. The only thing growing faster than the budgets is the certainty that none of this will ever be enough.

I’d suggest we drink to it, but the glasses are all being melted down for bullets.