• Speaker [e/em/eir]
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    16 hours ago

    I'm really looking forward to financial news in 2030 still intoning the holy litany "with pandemic savings dwindling" alongside this new "and wildfire windfall almost depleted" verse. Unserious country, I'd be less insulted by a bullet.

  • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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    1 day ago

    When 50 thousand people were evacuated from the city of Pripyat following the Chernobyl incident in 1986, the Soviet government built an entirely new city, Slavutych in just two years, 50km away, to accommodate those who lost their homes.

    From the start, Slavutych was planned to become a "21st-century city". Compared to other cities in Ukraine, Slavutych has a modern architecture with pleasant surroundings, and the standard of living in the city is much higher than in most other Ukrainian cities.

    This would be the last city the Soviet Union would ever build. The entire country would collapse in just two years’ time, but they managed to do something like this.

    • roux [he/him, they/them]
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      1 day ago

      So if I follow this logic, if the US builds a new city for the displaced victims, it would speed up our nation's collapse? Let's fucking go!

      • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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        1 day ago

        Chernobyl was not the reason for the Soviet collapse, which was primarily driven by political and economic factors (i.e. import of Western liberal ideology).

        I’m just saying that even a country with declining economy could manage that, let alone the wealthiest country in the world. It’s a matter of political will.

  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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    23 hours ago

    My neighbor's giant tree blew over and crushed her car, her mom's car, and her daughter's car. $770 wouldn't even cover removing the tree. She probably won't qualify for the payment because fire didn't down the tree

  • Rom [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Meanwhile Biden sent another $500 million to Ukraine and $8 billion to pissrael.

    biden-the-thing We don't have any more money to help people survive, Jack, we spent it all making people dead

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      1 day ago

      That's $96,590.90 for each of the 88,000 people currently under mandatory evacuation orders for the LA fires btw

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]M
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    1 day ago

    $770? Do they really think $600 is anywhere near enough? LA was already had a ridiculous cost of living, how is $450 going to even make a dent?

    I guess they'll expect people to be happy they got a $375, after all Trump would have been worse amIright? maybe-later-kiddo

    • Infamousblt [any]M
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      24 hours ago

      "$2000 checks out the door immediately!" I guess at least the folks in LA are getting closer to receiving the 2k the dems promised 4 years ago, so that's progress!

  • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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    23 hours ago

    Worse insult than nothing, even worse than throwing a nickel at them. This communicates one thing - they took a look and didn't care to actually assess finances, like 'how expensive could it be?!'. So they're looking at the issue as a check in the box, not a human need where they would have to actually talk to the plebes.

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    "sorry ya lost your home. Go get a shave and a new suit, jack!" biden-troll

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    Holy shit... My brain automatically corrected it to $770 million until I read the comments... I was thinking it was the sum of all payments, because $770 was so laughably incorrect my brain didn't even allow it to stand as is.

    Here child, have half a week in a hotel or something. Buy yourself a pack of gum while you're at it, it might help with the hunger.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      Same here, I saw the number and my brain inserted 7 more orders of magnitude because what a pittance

    • miz [any, any]
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      16 hours ago

      only a jillion huh? get me AIPAC on the phone disgost