• anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    You pay for their bombs. The money they save allows them to have socialized healthcare.

    You bust your ass to keep your family with healthcare … and your government helps another country provide THEIR citizens healthcare.

    Let that shit sink in.

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      25 days ago

      Yep. This is the argument to make to Republicans. We pay for socialized healthcare for Israel. Ask them to explain why we can justify that while also making cuts to other international healthcare initiatives and denying healthcare to Americans.

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        You also pay a crapton of taxes for heathcare in your own country. More than a lot of countries with socialised healthcare, in fact. You just then have to also pay even more for health insurance so you can then need to pay out of pocket for the lifesaving healthcare you’ve already paid twice for.

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      The joke is that the US doesn’t help other countries. It does things to look good but genuinely helping a country build up, won’t happen, not unless there’s a military motive or a motive to still have proxy control and liquidating all those those who don’t commit.

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    No Medicare or Medicaid, no snap, no climate protection, gas crisis, housing crisis But but… BUT!!! MONEY FOR EXPLODY SHIT AND A MASS BRIBE!!!

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    Israel was founded by USA and UK after WW2 for a reason.

    Since founding, the USA has always funded their military. Not only did you buy the bombs, tanks, and so on, your parents did too, and your grandparents, and your great grandparents (if you are American, anyway). There’s a reason that every President I know of has flown out to Israel and visited the Prayer Wall and worn the little hat. It’s considered vital to our strategic interests in the area (that’s not my assessment).

    … and not only Israel! If memory serves, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have also received a lot of military aid.

    … and money! So much money is funneled to ME, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, and more.

    There are few things in life that you can count on, and that’s death, taxes, and US military aid to Israel.

    This is one thing that bOtH pArTiEs agree on, there’s no “anti-Israel” voting option.

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    I thought we needed those bombs? Didn’t Biden cause the problem by giving away all our precious bombs to Ukraine, not TACO with his Iran war? So I guess the shortage must be over if we have enough to give to Israel. Such a relief to know we are safe again.

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      Different bombs. These are dumb bombs, US can’t get close enough to Iran to use these. They tried already and lost aircraft. So they have to use guided bombs and missiles.

      Israels genocide is uncontested, so they have no issues dropping dumb bombs.

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          The WWII surplus basically doesn’t exist outside museums. The vast majority would have been used (especially in training) or updated. Even just chemical instability and environmental degradation would have made anything too dangerous to really leave in an arsenal.

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    Make a list of all the US addresses; When israel uses the bombs, some people should get a letter thanking them for buying the bomb that was just dropped on X location. Would be good for folks to know where their taxes are going

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      24 days ago

      Why do you think non-voters would vote for Trump alternatives? Just as likely to vote for Trump.

      what’s the vitriol for?

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    It’s not like USA has a free public healthcare to worry about, they need to spend our money on something, might as well be weapons… right?

    Remember fellow Americans, in midterm you better vote for Trump, let’s kill more people, more kids, let’s send more weapons to Middle East, what’s the worst that can happen? 10$ for gallon? Daddy says its a small price to pay…