• ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    They are shutting down the government to stop money to Ukraine, so in this one particular example it just happens to be kind of good they can do this. Most of the time it isn't.

    • D61 [any]
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      1 year ago

      Down side is, it will also stop money going to lots of other things, services for marginalized people are going to be reduced.

      • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah such is American politics. Nothing can be by itself, and nothing can be simple. It all has to be riddled with contradictions, with shit injected into the middle of something good to confuse the masses and keep everyone divided. Anything good will be co-opted and used by the system to whitewash something bad, muddying everything into a permanent morass. Rainbow imperialism is a great example on the other end of the spectrum, something the Democrats cynically use. Republicans do a weird faux-populist faux-isolationism, but their critiques are always that we should invade some other place (like Mexico or China or Iran) which is incoherent and not truly anti-imperialist.

    • Vode An@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It really says a lot that the democrats care more about feeding conscripts to artillery than keeping WIC afloat. The CR without the Ukraine aid would have prevented a lot of suffering.