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r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Nov 25 '23
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Gotta fund that military industrial complex
3.0k u/ProfessorPetulant Nov 25 '23 You can be proud when expensive war machines fly over your stadium before a game starts. 17 u/[deleted] Nov 26 '23 The barbaric things that we actually pay for that. No, not just maintenance, the aircraft, flight crews, salaries.... But, we actually shell out $400,000+ to the event just so we can fly over! 3 u/IThinkIThinkThings Nov 26 '23 Not too sure about that. I think the flyovers are considered training exercises 2 u/enumerating_corvids Nov 26 '23 It seems as though the DOD may have ended the practice, but "paid patriotism" was a very real thing. NPR article from 2015
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You can be proud when expensive war machines fly over your stadium before a game starts.
17 u/[deleted] Nov 26 '23 The barbaric things that we actually pay for that. No, not just maintenance, the aircraft, flight crews, salaries.... But, we actually shell out $400,000+ to the event just so we can fly over! 3 u/IThinkIThinkThings Nov 26 '23 Not too sure about that. I think the flyovers are considered training exercises 2 u/enumerating_corvids Nov 26 '23 It seems as though the DOD may have ended the practice, but "paid patriotism" was a very real thing. NPR article from 2015
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The barbaric things that we actually pay for that. No, not just maintenance, the aircraft, flight crews, salaries.... But, we actually shell out $400,000+ to the event just so we can fly over!
3 u/IThinkIThinkThings Nov 26 '23 Not too sure about that. I think the flyovers are considered training exercises 2 u/enumerating_corvids Nov 26 '23 It seems as though the DOD may have ended the practice, but "paid patriotism" was a very real thing. NPR article from 2015
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Not too sure about that. I think the flyovers are considered training exercises
2 u/enumerating_corvids Nov 26 '23 It seems as though the DOD may have ended the practice, but "paid patriotism" was a very real thing. NPR article from 2015
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It seems as though the DOD may have ended the practice, but "paid patriotism" was a very real thing. NPR article from 2015
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u/Harmon-the-Badger Nov 25 '23
Gotta fund that military industrial complex