• PKMKII [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Everyone in Washington believes in MMT when it comes to military spending

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No because we have to be able to afford two wars at once.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    1 year ago

    We can't afford healthcare, or student loan forgiveness, or housing, or food, or bridges, or infrastructure, but BOY HOWDY war? We can CERTAINLY afford AT LEAST two of those

  • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Of course the US can. It's so infuriating that it has the money and resources to spend in whatever it wants and instead it's using it to finance death.

    Of course, I think she's probably saying this at the GOP more than as a personal interest in war, as we've been hearing people talk about America doesn't have the resources, which even if true isn't something you would say if you "love america".

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      america is the richest country on earth and we can afford anything*, implying otherwise is blasphemy

      *offer not valid for the dirty poors

      • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        "We can afford anything when it comes to protecting our international position and pursuing national interests."

        Unfortunately, international relations has never really cared about poors - if you study diplomatic relations they literally teach you that "human rights" wasn't even a concept to foreign relations between nation-states until the 20th century.

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s so infuriating that [the US] has the money and resources to spend in whatever it wants and instead it’s using it to finance death.

      As far as the burger regime is concerned, those are the same thing.

  • Maaj [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I don't think I can take much more of old people saying unhinged shit.

  • YoungSheldonAdelson [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    anakin-padme-1 America can afford 2 wars.

    anakin-padme-2 You mean the wars in Palestine and Ukraine, right?

    anakin-padme-3

    anakin-padme-4 The wars in Palestine and Ukraine, right?

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    That's our entire economic model and foreign policy positions summed up in one sentence.

  • AsleepInspector
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    1 year ago

    I have a lot of old people in my life that I love.

    But man oh man, this makes me think all political gam gams and pepaws should be inhaling pillows at a certain age just to prevent them from turning into a murderous politician.

    It may be time to tell top-cop 's daughter she needs to Chief her Cuckoo's Nest in MineCraft before the brainrot turns (more) malicious.