How do you feel about financing a genocide? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by selokichtli@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I didn't want to direct this question to Americans specifically because, at this point, other countries have shown support to Israel in one or the other way. If my country was financing this, I would be taking the streets. Shit, I'm right now in the hospital but all I can think about is protesting anyway just to feel I did something to stop this madness.

Are you doing something about this? Are you feeling unsettled? How do you feel about all this mess?

EDIT: So, buying Chinese stuff takes the USS Gerald Ford to Gaza’s coast. Also, TIL that that chocolate my cousin gave me when she was 20 and I was 5, (delicious stuff!) made me a slavist-ish. The fact remains, this genocide is being paid and supported by taxpayers money; of course, I was hoping that most of us didn’t pay taxes wishing for this. Thank you all for your responses, some of them were hard to swallow.

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[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

and supported by taxpayers money;

nah our national taxes don't pay for anything, a sovereign government prints fiat money before anyone pays any tax and part of what gives that money any real value is that it's accepted as payment for debts owed to that sovereign.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

They print money for the government budget but that massively inflates the money supply so to counterbalance that inflation, they destroy all the money that was paid in taxes by their citizens

Taxpayer money funding government budget is fairly accurate

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

Taxpayer money funding government budget is fairly accurate

you can print money up to the natural resource+ labor output of a nation-state and nobody is printing that much money.

where did the 20,000 per person per year for all those years the US spent on its wars in iraq and afghanistan come from? it wasn't tax revenue.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

It wasn't all tax revenue but taxes were definitely necessary for the US economy to not collapse while funding the war machine

[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

good thing the US economy didn't collapse during those wars then...

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

I live in a country where people's been bornt in debt for decades. It definitely feels people's debt, particularly if you are poor.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

what?

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