Healthcare please :sadness-abysmal:

  • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Lol we're talking removing weight restrictions from bridges and deputizing teenagers to truck driving and this is what moves through congress. Can't do voting rights, healthcare, or student loan forgiveness, but there's always room for another war.

  • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    you've gotta love how the intercept will leave all the western elite premises unchallenged and then bemoan how the non-military options are being closed off

    • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      i think they were never the same after they got rid of glenn greenwald
      it's possible that they are controlled opposition now

  • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's gonna be hilarious when Russia just... doesn't do anything.

    That or it will be :agony-shivering: when Ukrainian Nazis backed by the West decide to provoke Russia.

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Ukrainian Nazis backed by the West decide to provoke Russia.

      That's literally the plan lol. It's the exact same plan we always do. These ones are whiter though so we'll let a bunch over as refugees as well and there'll just be this protected sect of Nazis that'll scream hate crime if you punch them

      • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Then they'll call Ukraine's provocation a "false flag" supposedly orchestrated by Russia.

  • AsleepInspector
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    3 years ago

    :maybe-later-kiddo: Gotta help some Nazis fight established borders, tell me-maw, 'bite me'

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    on behalf of Nancy Pelosi's call options in Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, we should all be very happy about this

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      There's no way in hell any GOP member is voting down a military spending bill and risk pissing of the great Grand Dutchy of Raytheon

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah and for any random handful of GOP politicians that vote against it for some weird incomprehensible reason, there will be twice as many democrats there to make up for it. Like the two Paul weirdos are often anti war, and maybe some other idiot is like "this isn't violent ENOUGH"

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    Nothing like a good o'l war to get a president's ratings up, eh Barn?

  • toledosequel [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    The way the media frames this is so insidious.

    If the Americans are so opposed to Russian troops in Latin America, then why are they surprised at the Russian reaction to NATO? Imagine Iran training troops near the Mexican-Texan border, and many of them were extremist Wahabi paramilitaries. It seems insane to not view this as a clear provocation right?

    But this is exactly what the US wants, a pretext to eliminate Russia's Nord Stream 2 plans and promote American LNG in Europe instead (something which even Ukraine is iffy about because of expensive it is to import American oil).

    If this situation does develop into a full on War, I put the blame on an America which deemed all the pain and suffering that would ensue as a preferable alternative to reduced military and economic primacy in Europe.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Bright side: if the bill goes through, all the Ukraine sabre rattling will stop.

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      lol, as if it's just pretext for turning on the money faucet. Like passing the Havana syndrome bill only for the CIA to admit it's nothing a few months later