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[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 38 points 2 years ago (14 children)

But when we ask for help as citizens, "how are you gonna pay for it, huh?"

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[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

geordi-no Healthcare, debt relief, child povery mitigation.

geordi-yes unlimited genocide on US designated subhumans

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] toxicbubble420@beehaw.org 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

or living wage, or affordable housing

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

or infrastructure or child care or

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[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

The US government only disagrees on matters which support the average citizen. Other than that, both sides are in lockstep when it comes to voting on bills...

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

They already spend a ton of public dollars on health. The problem is that it goes to insurance companies, administrative staff, and the downstream health costs of inadequate early access to care.

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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

how do you think it has the biggest army in the world

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (52 children)

This shit is going to pass with full bipartisan support and libs are still going to be confused the next time someone tells them both ~~sides~~ parties are the same.

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[–] blazera@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago

famously poorly armed state of Israel

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Desperate empire practices policy of War Startups, sends funding to whomever

nukenuke kelly Silica Valley

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Saigon Valley

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[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Please attach some basic conditions like... don't do war crimes.

[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Isn't this request too late? Biden already said they will be with Israel no matters what. They just pretend to care about war crimes, they don't even want to know what happened with the hospital parking where many people were sleeping waiting to be attended or waiting their injured friends/family members.

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[–] anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Truly demonstrates how wildly preposterous it is at its core. Space exploration makes countries focus together on a bigger picture, which everyone's also interested in, and even makes us realize what our taxes are capable of financing. Regardless, its worth it alone just for showing youngsters how fascinating and worthwhile science is as a career choice...

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[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago

The burger regime rn:

[–] faltryka@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One of these is not like the others.

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