• Seaguy05@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    There’s always money for our military industrial complex tho. Billion dollars a day if you wanted to put an approximate number on it. What else would that get American civilians if we spent that money on something like healthcare or education maybe infrastructure. State side, the best we can do is a golden shower dome of missiles to protect some of us in a best case scenario.

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    3 hours ago

    This has been true going straight back to the Nixon Administration. The conservative “we’re getting rid of the fraud” playbook is three generations old at this point. They run it, because it works pretty much every time.

    People hear “fraud”, they see an AI generated image of a young black man in a pimp outfit driving a Cadillac, and they slam the “GOP Forever” button.

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    3 hours ago

    If banks took the same approach to fraud then every hotline, website, and phone app would be shut down and people could ONLY do their transactions in-person.

    AND THERE WOULD STILL BE FRAUD!