Where are all the fascists that are crying about less government and keeping our money in the US and only for the US?
Wasn't that the whole argument of dismantling USAID?
Answer: Republicans are full of shit and so are Musk, Donald, Vance and all the rest.
Where are all the fascists that are crying about less government and keeping our money in the US and only for the US?
They label it a sale and it's suddenly OK. They ALSO send a lot of aid, but that's only a bad thing when a democrat is in charge. Now that republicans are in charge, Israel is part of the US as far as aid and such is concerned.
When will DOGE cut this spending?
I'm sorry people of Gaza, this is really evil and as a US person who has paid taxes, I'm a part of it. I wish I could stop it but am poor, I'm not sure protesting would work. I feel helpless and also responsible. This is no different than when everyone looked the other way and refused to take Jewish people during WWII. I am sorry for not realizing what this was sooner and disbelieving the severity and evilness of it at first. :-( There's really no way for me to opt out of this unless I leave the US, become like Henry David Thoreau and just don't participate in society, which may mean death for me, or actually just choose to die so I no longer have to be part of a disgusting and evil society. The regular people of Gaza aren't part of this war and war crimes are being committed. It probably means nothing but I'm so so sorry.
Don't worry fellow US citizen. God will do something I'm sure. Any day now God will help those in need. Any.... Day now.
I get your sarcasm, but what should I be doing as a poor US citizen?
-Writing letters? (Unlikely to persuade people because opinions are divided on humanitarian versus hard-core Christian theologian views. I would need to remotely deprogram elected officials for this to work.)
-Holding signs to protest? (Unlikely to persuade for the same reasons.)
-Sending lengthy theological arguments to right-wing types? (I could try it. It would be strange coming from an atheist but I could try? It would be more effective than trying to deprogram them.)
-Donations? (I looked at some organizations helping Gaza and many of their leaders make substantially more than me per year and I'm dealing with financial hardship. It's hard for me to donate to an organization with leaders who have high salaries while I struggle with bills, but maybe that's a bad excuse. Maybe some leaders with high salaries donate to their own organization, but if so it wasn't listed.)
-Direct donations? (I should probably do this, and I'm not sure how to do this.)
Please, tell me the appropriate response for a poor person, even if it's anything other than nothing. I just feel like nothing I do will be effective.
Are they going to send back eggs?
Fun fact: Genocide Donald is the oldest president the United States has ever had.
Sleepy Don
Orange Senile Whackjob.
Imagine paying off student loans with that money.
Imagine eliminating homelessness with that money.
No Way Jesus would allow that! /s
Where's all the idiots who wouldn't vote "for genocide" at?
They didn't want to participate in warcrimes.
Was it more important for liberals and Kamala to lose the election than stand for Palestine?
How much did Biden send to Israel?
Why was it more important for Kamala to continue the genocide than to win over those non-voters?
You see it was impossible to take a nuanced position and vote for the lesser of two evils.
But they can claim moral superiority, and we all know that's what's most important when it comes down to it.
I'm so glad that your choice allowed you to claim moral superiority.
I could not care less about moral superiority. That's why I held my nose and voted for an imperfect candidate.
How much did Joe send every year?
How much military aid did we send to Israel under Biden? And Kamala was different from him, how? How many UN motions were vetoed by a Democrat administration to prolong the genocide? I ate shit and voted for Democrats again, but there was never anyone to vote for that wasn't going to support the genocide of Palestinians.
Biden stopped sending bombs and artillery that was being used to level Gaza.
Those are the exact weapons Trump is starting to send again.
Stop trying to equivocate. Trump is significantly worse for Gaza than Biden or Harris.
I wish your fantasy world existed, but it doesnt
The Russian bots still have it out for Biden.
Neoliberals still have a hard on for genocide Joe.
You live in a dream world. Biden didn't stop anything except UN resolutions against Israel's genocide.
Here waiting for you to stop infighting and join us in the real world.
B...b...but the Democrats are genociders so I didn't vote or voted 3rd party to help the Palestinians.
Did I help? Did I help them? Does this help them?
While I don’t disagree, I feel like we need to talk more about how disconnected the Democratic Party is from what their base actually wants. Them being diet republicans ain’t cutting it
None of the votes during this past election would have helped Palestine. That’s the point. You gotta think long term. Dems and Reps suck.
Our two party, single vote system isn’t working for the people and they want you to believe it is. Control your politicians. Don’t let them control you.
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