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Stephen Semler
@stephensemler
Tracks and charts policy | co-founder, SPRI (@security_reform) | https://t.co/G9ILBbVQlc
Katılım Ocak 2020
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Stephen Semler retweetledi
Cutting social welfare is unpopular, increasing military spending is also unpopular, and the GOP is planning on doing both at the same time. Again.
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Militarily, China spends half of the US as a % of GDP and less than a third in real terms. If you want to include internal security, fine, but you've got to include it for the US, too.
This graph also accounts for inflation. That's what "constant 2026 dollars" means.
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou
Russian military and national security spending is 8% of GDP and the Chinese total national security spend including their massive domestic security apparatus is 4.5% of GDP. Trump’s proposed increase in military spending would take US military spending to 4.8% of GDP, exactly in line with Russia and China. This stupid fear mongering graph doesn’t take into account inflation or the growth of the US economy over 80 years. US military spending was 10% of GDP in the 1950s and 6% in the 1980s.
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@Jerusalem_Post .@Jerusalem_Post you really ought to take this op-ed down. It's really fucking embarrassing x.com/stephensemler/…
Stephen Semler@stephensemler
.@Jerusalem_Post: "antisemitic tropes, such as 'genocide' and 'occupation'" Translation: "Calling things what they are is antisemitic"
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Opinion: It is time for Mamdani to stand in solidarity with Muslim leaders who eschew antisemitic tropes, such as “genocide” and “occupation,” and are committed to a new and broader regional alignment in the Middle East.
jpost.com/opinion/articl…
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.@Jerusalem_Post: "antisemitic tropes, such as 'genocide' and 'occupation'"
Translation: "Calling things what they are is antisemitic"
The Jerusalem Post@Jerusalem_Post
Opinion: It is time for Mamdani to stand in solidarity with Muslim leaders who eschew antisemitic tropes, such as “genocide” and “occupation,” and are committed to a new and broader regional alignment in the Middle East. jpost.com/opinion/articl…
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We actually don't need a military budget $260 billion more than at the height of WWII and $704 billion more than at the height of the Cold War.
Shouldn't be controversial.
Michael Jackson@WorkMJ
@stephensemler If you think there’s not significantly more threats now than in recent decades, you’re living in a dream world. If you think there is no correlation between security and defense spending, then you’re a fool. A steaming hot pile of shit has a better take on this than you do.
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The graph uses inflation-adjusted dollars (constant 2026 $), adjusted using OMB's GDP deflator.
Sounds like your beef isn't with me but with math.
Ounces@OuncesApp
@stephensemler Regardless of the metric you use, it's wrong. $1.5 trillion today is nowhere near equivalent to what $83 billion was in 1945. To suggest it would exceed that amount is, as I said before, “wildly incorrect.”
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The amount we spending militarily should be based on military threats, not GDP.
Also, if you're equating military spending with security, you're a moron.
Michael Jackson@WorkMJ
This is a genuinely bizarre and biased take. The spending increase would still mean defense spending as a percentage of GDP is well below what it was during the Cold War. Many just don’t want to admit that we’re in Cold War II…or they are simply rooting against the West.
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Stephen Semler retweetledi
トランプ大統領が本日提案した軍事予算は1兆5000億ドルだ。インフレ調整後では、これは過去最大の軍事予算よりも2600億ドル多い金額となる。 これは第二次世界大戦並みの軍事費などではなく、パロディレベルの額だ。
Stephen Semler@stephensemler
The military budget Trump proposed today is $1.5 trillion. Adjusted for inflation, that's $260 billion higher than the largest military budget on record. It's not WWII-level military spending; it's parody-level.
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Stephen Semler retweetledi
Trump makes the Military Industrial Complex happy. And disgustingly rich.
Stephen Semler@stephensemler
The military budget Trump proposed today is $1.5 trillion. Adjusted for inflation, that's $260 billion higher than the largest military budget on record. It's not WWII-level military spending; it's parody-level.
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A defense budget of this size is unnecessary and immoral. Dems should be running on slashing it.
Stephen Semler@stephensemler
The military budget Trump proposed today is $1.5 trillion. Adjusted for inflation, that's $260 billion higher than the largest military budget on record. It's not WWII-level military spending; it's parody-level.
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@TradDude1 Figures are expressed in constant 2026 dollars. Learn to read.
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@stephensemler Ways to measure this that would have been significantly less disingenuous.
1. Pegging every historical figure to the 2026 dollar
2. Representing spending as a percentage of GDP rather than a raw figure
And the only truly representative way is to do both simultaneously.
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The military budget Trump proposed today is $1.5 trillion. Adjusted for inflation, that's $260 billion higher than the largest military budget on record.
It's not WWII-level military spending; it's parody-level.
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Stephen. FY1986 US NDAA was $297.6B. In inflation adjusted dollars that's $890B, your chart seems off.
Stephen Semler@stephensemler
The military budget Trump proposed today is $1.5 trillion. Adjusted for inflation, that's $260 billion higher than the largest military budget on record. It's not WWII-level military spending; it's parody-level.
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First, NDAAs are policy bills, not funding bills. Learn the difference.
Second, the 1986 military budget was $289.6B. Using OMB's GDP deflator rebaselined for 2026, that's $739.2B.
Malcontent News@MalcontentmentT
Stephen. FY1986 US NDAA was $297.6B. In inflation adjusted dollars that's $890B, your chart seems off.
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