I don’t know what’s worse

the patriarchal obsession with measuring dicks in horsepower and engine size,

or the state-level version, where the numbers are just replaced with nuclear warheads and military budgets.

At least when he overcompensates, the only thing at risk is his credit score.

Meanwhile, entire governments are out here playing a high-stakes pissing contest,

except instead of sports cars, the flex is who can spend the most on machinery designed to erase entire populations.

Military spending is just a government’s way of proving it, too, can have a midlife crisis.