• BigMacHole@thelemmy.club
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    Good! I LOVE eliminating my CHILDRENS SCHOOL MEALS so we can fund ANOTHER War!

    -Fiscally Responsible Republicans who voted for Trump to AVOID War!

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      These figures don’t count a lot of legacy costs to these conflicts either. Which skyrocket with injuries to soldiers and the like.

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        They also don’t count the economic and social costs of the long-term fuel and food shortages and supply chain disruptions this war will cause.

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      But just think of the profits for department of war contractors like open ai, nvidia, and palantir.

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        Not to mention the traditional crowd (Lockheed, Boeing etc)

        Nvidia has a lot to learn, GPUs are buy once, cry once. Munitions are disposable, and need to be replaced. When nvidia manages to fit a H100 in the body of a missile, the real money printing begins :)

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    But we don’t have the money for universal health care, aids research, or educations…bcz we need to blow up more elementary schools.

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      What do you suggest? How are we to “stop this fucker,” right now? 2024 was the time to do that, and we decided to let the most unpopular person we could find run a status quo campaign as a continuation of an unpopular administration.

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        I’ve been able to get involved and in touch with people who help run 50501 locally, it’s hard work for little payoff. In order to plan for a general strike and protest would take weeks in advance, we’re just now getting organized and mobilized (especially in a southern city where the economy hasn’t been impacted too bad). People really underestimate the work and time it takes to get anything done

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          Thanks for your effort. Organization is the ONLY thing we can do that will help right now, other than creating new types of social media, long story though don’t want to get into it right now. Fediverse could work, but new types, with better rules fairly enforced and immune to government and business hooks.

      • mrdown@lemmy.world
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        The time was after vietnam. Not a single war criminal should have gotten away from war of agressions.

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        Put more pressure on Congress. They really aren’t getting enough lately, honestly. They could assert their war powers at any moment.

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        I believe you mean the DNC decided, because I never wanted Harris or Biden before her. I voted for them, but only because there was no better option after the sham primaries we were handed.

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          Don’t blame me either, I voted for kodos too.

          Those same ivy league aristocrats are still in control of the party. And the sheep still trust them, and they’ve armies of chatbots and trolls to drown out criticism on mainline social media. With plenty of real people sincerely thinking it’s my fault for not believing hard enough.

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        biden was the best president of my lifetime. realize any followup is going to result in me demanding you rank carter through trump. so you can’t use unpopular compared to imaginary presidents.

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        When there is nothing else to do then, guillotines. If you dont they will and they already are.

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        Fuck Americans.

        While true, there are more victims in that statement than people who made this happen.

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    200 billion taxpayer dollars and many American soldiers’ lives, is a small price to pay in service to the Epstein class!

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    How many trillions did we end up spending in Iraq again? Look at what we got for it. Nothing. Except hate.

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    Imagine the improvement in your entire country’s lives if you put that into healthcare instead of….this.

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    USAID was a miniscule amount of money but “too much” to spend, and this endless war is a small price to pay?

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    That is probably about the same amount of money Ukraine receives in 3-5 years as aid to fight Russia. MF gonna give it all to Netanyahu to turn kids lives into living hell.

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      Yet Zelesnky still support this war. With how long this war will last Ukraine may lose the war to the russian invaders

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        How does he support it? He did not start it and if Russia just pulled their troops back to their own country borders, the war would have been over today. It’s the Russian soldiers on the Ukrainian soil, not the other way round

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          He support the war on iran who benefits the russian invaders because the usa is always going to backstab all the other allies to protect Israel

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        You’re surprised that Zelensky isn’t upset that the arms supplier to his invader is being attacked? Why would he be?

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          Russia already moved away from Iran drones. They was given the tech and Russia are now manufacturing their own drones based on the Geran. Now look at the consequence on Ukraine: Israel got prioritized for defense and both Iran and Russia are exporting more oils and get new revenus

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            Israel has been prioritized for defense for the last 80 years, and Trump has been expressing reluctance to support Ukraine for the duration of the fight. So, except for the Russian cash flow, which is significant, what has actually changed?

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              This is the mother of all wars for Israel and the current war is going to involve to the most serious regional war since 76 that is the huge difference.

              Even under democrats , Israel will still be prioritized and all defense equipment would be rerouted to Israel

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                  Even less resources for Ukraine to defend itself. More profits for Russia to continue the war of aggression effort with the easing up of the sanctions on it by the USA

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        Well, we all know why Zelensky supports this war. People who are not able to see anything other than black and white deny the possibility that a country fighting against fascism might be enlisting bad allies to do it but that is what is happening here. Asking one fascist to save you from another fascist only saves the day and probably comes with alot of strings attached that likely empowers the other fascist.

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    Then he can pay it. Literally, he’s fleeced that much in bribes in the last few months alone. He acted without approval from Congress. This is his war. If he needs more money to stop Israel from releasing footage of him raping children, he can pull himself up by his bootstraps and sell a few Trump towers.

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    He should pay out of his own pocket if he had no approval for starting this stupid act of aggression.

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    You can’t trust the trump administration with this kind of money, look at chick who got fired from ICE she stole 125million and put it into some company her people own. You can’t trust these people with anything.

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    200 billion dollars for pitting the whole world on a blackout like Cuba? what a bargain!