Jfc. Stop funding the genocide.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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If we stop funding the genocide, what are we going to spent that $20B on? Student debt forgiveness? Medicaid expansion? A functional domestic transit system? Cybersecurity worth half a shit?
Fuck you. No. We're blowing it all on new kit for a dozen IDF soldiers jerking themselves over a pile of lingerie stolen from a dead Palestinian.
USA: "Universal health care is too expensive and would cut into rich people's yacht money"
Also USA:
Just so everyone knows, all that money goes back to the US military industrial complex. It's a deal where Israel gets weapons and our oligarchs get more money.
Ironically, if we had Medicare for All, we could afford more boom booms since it is cheaper than our current system.
God fucking damnit.
"arms sales" lol
yea, let's call it a "sale" when they're "buying" it with money we gave them
I'm ashamed of my country.
Isreal gets more bombs, and the 1% get more of our tax money. What a boring distopia we live in.
I'm ashamed of and disgusted with my country.
I really want to hear more about Cori Bush's plan to take down AIPAC.
It's time to do it.
Didn't she just lose her primary because of them? Did she say she is going to dedicate herself to taking them down now, like some sort of Korean revenge flick? Because I am all for this new arc of hers of that's the case.
Why is the USA so gross?
Why is the world so gross?
Touché
So Israel does everything possible to investigate a wider war, like doing assassinations of peace negotiators in Iran, and as punishment they get more arms because of the increased risk of wider conflict.
I have a feeling the US hasn't really thought their strategy through.
I have a feeling that they absolutely have thought this through and are just itching for another mideast war.
I mean, I guess judging by their actions that must be true, and the whole 'we don't like Netanyahu' thing they keep leaking is just cover.
But they must know that running a proxy war in Ukraine, one in the middle east while also continuing to protect Taiwan and dealing with global terrorism is probably beyond what they can do.
can I get an ELI5 why would israel need billions worth of aid to stomp on palestinian civilians and ragtag hamas militia?
Because our military industrial complex C-suite needs new yachts.
Wonderful. /s
Politicians need to start being forced to account for their treason.
Um, read the ruins, guys.
Joe fucking Biden