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[–] 36 points 1 month ago (15 children)

It's not for nothing,it's to fund Israel and his genocide

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Also, Israel has universal healthcare.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Never thought about this.

    They really do fund a whole country that has way higher living standards (unless you're "an Arab" of course) than their own.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    What's even worse is that the Israeli economy depends on Palestinian labor. Palestinians have practically none of the rights of Israelis, and are subject to genocide and settler-colonial terror, yet Palestinians do a large portion of underpaid labor propping up the Israeli economy. Palestinians are dehumanized, treated as tools to be used and discarded, and this is perfectly natural to Zionists because the conditions of settler-colonialism reinforce this view and create it. This is why a one-state solution is necessary, and Palestine must be free.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    There's a reason for the animosity of South Africa to Israel. They recognize an apartheid state and don't like it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Bingo! Same with other anti-colonial and anti-imperialist countries. Cuba, the DPRK, Ireland, Algeria, Nicaragua, Yemen, China, and more are some of the most supportive countries in the world for Palestine.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Given the size of the US economy that is peanuts. Bill Clinton managed to pay for Israel and have a balanced budget. The real truth is that the US has cut taxes for the rich. That meant less income and still old levels of spending, hence more debt.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    The problem is it’s no longer peanuts. The debt is larger than gdp and the debt payments are the largest government budget item.

    We’re already in a crisis of not being able to afford anything and the debt is large enough to crowd that out.

    For sure, tax cuts for the wealthy are a huge part of it, but so has the recent destruction of our economy and trade, random use of the military.

    FYI - I believe Bill Clinton mostly grew his way out of debt. Hold things steady while growing the economy (so debt is lower percentage), bringing in more tax income, and lowering interest rates. We’re doing the opposite of all three

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Kinda. Funding the Zionist entity is a part of a grander strategy maintaining US global hegemony, via IP monopoly, control of the dollar, and dominance of the IMF and NATO. All of these institutions work together to allow the US to siphon an enormous amount of global wealth production into a handful of billionaire pockets. Supporting genocide isn't the end itself, but a consequence of the means for that grander end of billionaire profit.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Amerikkka has centibillionaires and trillionaires. Those are super-expensive.

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    [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    The billionaires are richer though.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Oh but they have a lot to show for it. Ask anyone living in Iran. Or Israel.

    Just not in the USA itself.

    What a weird concept.

    Everybody in the world can see what American money buys, except Americans.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    We can see it just fine. There's nothing we can do. If you say take arms and start killing people, you'll get a nice ban. Even if we did that, tye rich would hide in their secret bunkers until we all died and buy our houses for pennies on the dollar, and then they'll be in your country buying all your stuff because it still will not be enough.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Workers can still practice the age-old mantra, educate, agitate, organize. Revolutions are made by the people, but they do not succeed without mass class consciousness and organized leadership. This is where making worker parties come in, by creating educated and disciplined worker organizations, through collective struggle the people come to more correct understandings of the class struggle. The answer isn't to take up arms immediately, because the people aren't unified. This can only come through consistent, deliberate education.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    But, they do have good, hard working folks like Elon Musk. That alone makes it all worth it. /s

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Won't somebody think of the military industrial complex!?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    This must be what they mean when they talk about American exceptionalism.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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    [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    But we have more billionaires than any other country. Isn't that what makes America great? What more do you want?

    Here. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos will trickle down a little more on your head. There you go. Now don't you feel all warm and soaking wet? Bitch.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    You'd think they'd have at least bullet trains.

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    America's only great for the 1%.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    If all the DSA's in the running get elected, we'll see some measure of change.

    There were only like six Tea Party reps that got elected way back when, and we saw how they were able to shake things up.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The Tea Party was pushing on an open door. Democrats and Republicans alike were enthusiastically in favor of slashing SS/Medicare, gutting education and housing development, privatizing prisons, and cutting taxes.

    The DSA will have an uphill battle. Everything they're asking for in the US is Haram under the current socio-economic order.

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    We have the most billionaires!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Plenty of rich higher up trash, though. Just sayin.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    They have an aircraft carrier with no catering that would be sunk by hypersonics within minutes of a real war breaking out.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Guess who holds 460 billion dollars worth of it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    And even the military is a laughing stock and being out of stock of interceptor missiles.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Come on, we have our very own trillionaire!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    In principle, being the preferred world currency and reserve currency means that Treasury bonds are a safe way to build their reserves while gaining interest. This keeps the American dollar and the American led world relevant. In other words, if America goes down, so will you. This also gives the US a lot of coersive leverage over developing nations to exploit their land and labor. This means that the core of the US empire gets access to cheap resources and labor. What the US gets is highly malleable power.

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    theres also disconnect between the voters and the debt, they dont anything is happening to them financially so they ignore it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    We did get stuff, poisoned water, poisoned food, and maybe a trillionaire!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    money for nothing and the chicks for free!

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