And that's just what they admit to publicly.

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Ain't no war better than a proxy war. Libs don't lose their kids, political support so easy to maintain

    Love to see the defense stock skyrocket. They're the real winners

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    There are usually half a million homeless people in the USA. That means that they could've bought each and every one of those a 200k dollar home with that money. They could also have paid a total of 50 million months of rent at the 2000$ median price. And this is even taking as a premise that housing should be sellable or rentable in the first place. And yet they preferred this instead.

    Any Yankee around still not convinced that the USA government needs to end, this is your moment to reconsider.

  • Effort0499@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Instead of spending a fraction of that money to improve its own people's lives, the US yet again prioritizes supporting fascist scum over valuing human life. The US terrorist regime needs to be sent where it belongs, the dustbin of history!

  • COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    It seems they got rattled by Russia's rebellion against NATO. They want to preserve their hegemony as much as possible.

    • MCU_H8ER@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I'm learning this in my personal life...no one is as irrational as a narcissist who realizes they're losing control.

      • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        👆👆👆👆👆

        I've always found personifying U.S. and its relationship with its neighbors to be very useful. It all scales up and down with ease.

  • Catradora-Stalinism☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    God how many lifesaving materials could that money buy

    hospital equipment, hospitals, vaccines, infrastructure repair, debt relief, healthcare, fucking anything!

    but now its just burned on a war they will lose in like 3 years

  • D61 [any]
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    1 year ago

    $1 million dollars to everybody living in the USA with billions left over.

    Healthcare? Nope, too expensive.

    Better water or power service? Nope, too expensive.

    Public transport? Nope, too expensive.

    War? Oh shit yeah! Money 🖨 go brrrrr!

    • Anuvin@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Nah it's only 337 dollars to everyone living in the USA. But I agree that it would have bought a lot of healthcare and infrastructure instead of pouring it down the toilet that is the Ukrainian military.

      • D61 [any]
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        1 year ago

        'kay fine.. I'll be more specific.

        $1 million dollars "to each and every living person within the arbitrary borders of the United States of Mayo-vania"

        There... are you happy... now.

        mumbles in Rodney Dangerfield, "Can't get no respect round here.. none at all"

          • D61 [any]
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            1 year ago

            Okay, I'll bite.

            How am I supposed to understand this comment?

            • LiberalSoCalist@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              you seemed to double down on your math error instead of investigating and correcting it. It just looks silly unless there was a a joke I missed.

              if libs saw this they would post this to a tankiejerk comm saying "Hexbear can't math. Explains why they like communism 100 billion dead" etc. I don't wanna give them easy Ws.

              • D61 [any]
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                1 year ago

                Okay so I'm seeing less of a math error and more of a, I didn't specifically say give everybody living in the USA $1million dollars each. So.. like.. 11 billion minus what... somewhere around 400 million is like... counts on fingers, 10 billion and change for war and 400 million people with some cash in pocket to pay bills or buy new teeth or whatever.

                Instead, the comment decided to interpret my lack of specificity as, "$1million divided up between 400million." Which is genuinely funny and I figured I would roll with the dig.

                And I mean, liberals are gonna liberal. I'm not too worried about it. But I can appreciate the concern. comrade-doggo

                  • D61 [any]
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                    1 year ago

                    Huh.... rereads

                    $1 million dollars to everybody living in the USA with billions left over.

                    I'd read it like, "1 ice cream cone to every kid in the class." Not sure why it would be read as "1 ice cream code to be shared by the class".

                • ped_xing [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  The amount you're looking for is a dollar. If you take 400 million out of the spending and divide it equally among 400 million people, everyone gets a dollar. I 100% agree that everyone getting that dollar would be an improvement upon current state, but a dollar doesn't even get you a slice anymore, much less pay for new teeth.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Literally no one I know is happy about this. I have yet to meet a single living person who approves of all this unchecked money and equipment being sent to some European country most people didn't know about until 2014.

  • NotErisma
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    1 year ago

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  • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Good thing there were no massive fires recently in any states within their own country that need aid, or a widespread epidemic of homelessness, or people starving in the streets.

    Must be great that they have everything so under control domestically that there is absolutely nothing else that that money could be spent on. So yeah, keep it going forever, that seems to make sense.