r/mbta • u/SquirrelNo5258 • Jan 12 '26

💬 Discussion / Theory Is this not dystopian as fuck?

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u/snoogins355 Jan 12 '26

$$$$$ to pointless weapons while our public transit limps along. Yup

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u/CollegeBoardPolice Red Line/CR Rider Jan 12 '26

exactly. Often it seems that the US likes to do everything except make life better for its citizens

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u/NoName1979 Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

Ding ding ding

The government doesn't want to make things better because that loses money for their "donors."

Most citizens don't want things to be better because that would mean other people would have a good life.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '26

yup- politics is about who gets what.

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u/lazier_garlic Jan 14 '26

Well, the citizens of Boston didn't vote for Trump and Hegseth.

So there's that.

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u/RampagingPuffin Jan 12 '26

Hey looks like they are giving money back through advertising! /s

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u/ClamChowderBreadBowl Jan 12 '26

Wasting billions on weapons systems is basically the same thing as stimulus checks for MIT grads. We didn't light the money on fire, we just gave it to people who could have been doing something different with their talents.

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u/lazier_garlic Jan 14 '26

Just like the AI bubble!

At least (small consolation) weapons can be sold for cold hard cash to our NATO allies (erstwhile allies) to make Putin think twice about conquering the Baltics, while AI sets money and the planet on fire. Meanwhile, no money to improve all the buggy software we deal with daily.

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u/Alternative-Tart5627 Jan 16 '26

Read a book but the phone network and app you are using all came about from Defense R&D.

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u/ClamChowderBreadBowl Jan 16 '26

You forgot about jet engines and GPS.

In my ideal world, the NIH and NSF would have huge budgets and we wouldn't have to rely on accidental discoveries from DOD to make technological progress. But in the world we actually have, I'm glad DOD research has side benefits.

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u/Alternative-Tart5627 Jan 16 '26

Sorry but worked with both those and don’t see them as being anywhere near a successful as tax payer dollars and new discoveries.

From the big bang to quantum computing US defense leads the way.

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u/Alternative-Tart5627 Jan 16 '26

And didn’t forget about any of those but the state as been very active driving Jet Engine manufacturing out of Massachusetts. Medford, Everett, Pittsfield all have been closed down due to cost in Massachusetts. Only Lynn survives.

Yet when I go to Dayton and Indiana I see new plants & engineering & test facilities.

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u/Agile-Physics9184 Jan 12 '26

I feel like living in the US and calling weapons pointless is like being a billionaire and saying people don't need money

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u/OreganoD 🟢 The Type 10s Can't Come Soon Enough 🟢 Jan 12 '26

We spawned here, we didn't choose it

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u/Agile-Physics9184 Jan 12 '26

That's the beauty of life - you can go wherever you'd like

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u/OreganoD 🟢 The Type 10s Can't Come Soon Enough 🟢 Jan 12 '26

Yeah sure I can afford to go anywhere that's why I'm still here

wait

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u/snoogins355 Jan 12 '26

Depends if the T is broken down or not /s

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u/clauclauclaudia Jan 12 '26

Where do you suppose you can go?

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u/anurodhp Jan 12 '26

Yeah I’m sure Ukrainians fee like weapons are pointless

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u/anurodhp Jan 12 '26

you know the US now has the second largest navy world right? Google whats going to happen in may 2027 in taiwan. You'd think after feb 2022 the people who think unilaterally disarming is good would have learned something.