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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 204 points 2 days ago

The DOGE found that there were $50 million dollars of tax money going to Gaza. Some small part of that apparently has to do with condoms, so they're using it as justification that all government grant programs should be halted immediately. This will effect people's jobs, schools, and numerous other programs beneficial to the American public, but it's ok because they stopped the condoms

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 39 points 1 day ago

No different than the DEA putting you in prison for 10 pounds of marijuana because you have a 10 pound bag of dirt and some kind of plant matter they can't identify. Facts don't matter to the government.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago

A future DOGE finding will show that ketchup is a luxury that American taxpayers shouldn't be funding for any group of people under any circumstances. /s

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You're thinking of "condiments", which are usually used in different situations.

[-] Zirconium@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

How will RFK season his steak?

[-] VoteNixon2016 2 points 1 day ago

His roadkill steaks come preseasoned

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Rotten whale-skull leakage.

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Condoms are watertight expandable bags. They can be useful in many situations that aren't sexual.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes but sex is only for making babies in their eyes

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Probably added by a republican as a poison pill.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 47 points 2 days ago

I mean, it makes a ton of sense to include condoms in aid, you don't want people getting pregnant when there's literally no functioning hospitals. Of course conservatives will say 'just don't have sex' or whatever, but that's just not how humans work.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

This makes sense. And also makes it a lot worse that they’re using that as an excuse.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago

It's probably also not $50m worth of condoms. It's probably like a few grand, but you have to spend millions on distribution and security because obviously there's no infrastructure there.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 66 points 2 days ago

Wait I thought the racists wanted less brown people they're really sending mixed messages here...

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

Not exactly, they need a permanent underclass of slaves

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Have you been to Israel? They go out of their way not to exploit Palestinians for labour. Most of the Israeli labor class is imported from Thailand.

Its pretty crazy and shows just how genocidal those people are. They literally want them all dead.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Well no, you add children to no resources and no shelter and you get demoralization and greater overpopulation and a noticable impact on crime and life span.

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds like future slaves to me. They - the billionaires - want to kill most of us worldwide and enslave the rest.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

Bombs and bullets tend to be more effective than condoms.

In a broad sense this is inaccurate - war has been around as long as humans, and yet we were on an exponential population growth curve until the demographic transitions started.

Over the last century we as a species have significantly reduced child mortality, improved education, infrastructure, overall quality of life, and established reproductive health initiatives that supply condoms and sex education!

These advancements cause the local mortality rate to plummet. Then the following generation gets to reproductive age but has much less offspring, and the reproductive rate falls farther than the mortality rate did.

This is called the "demographic transition" and has occurred across dramatically different cultures, environments, and economies.

This is not universal or inevitable across the globe but the impact is so significant that global population as a whole is currently heading towards a plateau!

Therefore condoms, reproductive healthcare, and distributed economic growth are more effective at reducing population growth than bombs and bullets.

Developing a nation is literally more cost-efficient than destroying it. For the species. Not for the people selling the bombs.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

The problem with that is they're not trying to "develop" Gaza... at least not for the people living there.

True! It's just another of the many ways that evil is counterproductive to its own interests.

Helping groups of humans that bigots don't like would literally result in less humans that bigots don't like in the world.

But they can't help the wrong humans! Oh no! They have to hurt those humans! And so they leave those humans in the socioeconomic conditions that maintain exponential population growth indefinitely

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Yup.. assholes gonna asshole. It did seem like we were getting better for awhile, but the news lately shows us not much has changed.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

They also get hard-ons when brown people suffer. It's a balance act.

[-] Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

I don’t believe that for a second.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago

I miss when doge was just a good boy

[-] oyo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

They ruin everything. Pepe, Doge, Tesla; fucking Tolkien rolling over in his grave over Anduril and Palantir.

[-] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

When we said "it's a fucking genocide in Gaza", they might have misunderstood which word was meant to be emphasized.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 days ago

Of course this is being defended by somebody wearing a cross.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago

Call it an ancient torture device, and it all makes sense.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

I’m sorry but she looks like the platonic ideal of the headline. Betty Bowers, take some notes.

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 27 points 1 day ago

Surely this will improve government efficiency!

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I am super confused about the whole thing.

This is literally a perfect fit for this community.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

I kinda love your username btw - such a good match (to your instance)!:-P

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 3 points 1 day ago

💜Thank you.💜

[-] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Site censored in eu.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

DOGE? Like......the 2012 dog meme/cryptocurrency? I'm so confused what is happening here.

[-] Deello@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

Department of Government Efficiency. Headed by Elon Musk, the guy responsible for sending that crypto coin to the moon with a single tweet. This is America now. One big meme.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

You somehow gave a complete answer that answered my question, and still left me even more confused.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

DOGE as in musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The, uh, illegal and unconstitutional “advisory” board that was set up to give oligarchs a seat at the table.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The, uh, illegal and unconstitutional “advisory” board that was set up to give oligarchs a seat at the table.

Gonna get a LOT of mileage out of that one sentence.

[-] dx1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's the idea

[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

You could say they prefer it RawDoge

[-] coherent_domain@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The title plus the thumbnail makes it looks like a snl sketch, only more ridiculous.

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