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by barrow-rider 2742 days ago
> spending the largest portion of its budget on undemocratic means

That is just simply not true. The largest part of the US budget is ~1.25 trillion USD spent on Social Security and Unemployment, after that it's ~1 trillion on Medicare & Medicade, and ~600 billion on Defense.

Make no mistake the US spends wayyyy too much on the military, but it's not #1