The House on Saturday passed a $95 billion aid package that includes two long-awaited bills with $60.8 billion of Ukraine aid and $26 billion in aid to Israel.
The Ukraine bill, which passed with 311 votes in favor, 112 votes against, and one present, will now head to the Senate alongside the Israel aid bill and two others — one with aid for Taiwan and another that forces Tiktok’s parent company to sell it.
Poor Israel can barely afford to murder children anymore.
If you’re an American, the hypocrisy is palpable
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No. It’s all your fault for not campaigning harder. Go sit in the corner and blame yourself. Never question the current election process.
I wouldn’t set foot in that country.
Why does Israel need aid? To help them invade someone more?
The realpolitik answer is that they’re the only country in the region with highly functioning western-style market economy. That is valuable to other functioning western style market economies. Its a system trying to help itself propagate.
The way your 'y’s alling on this post made my day! (mildly)
That doesn’t make any sense, considering support for Israel was the main cause behind the 9/11 attacks.
Seems like support for Israel is good for one nation: Israel.
They need the moneys to genocide harder, better, faster, stronger.
Wowowow, keep Daft Punk out of this
But how can we when the Israeli apartheid regime is trying to take their shitshow around the world around the WORld?
Fuck russia, fuck israel.
And fuck the house.
“Fuck the House” would be a good name for a casino heist movie if movies could have ‘fuck’ in the title.
Movies can have a little bit of fuck in the title, as a treat.
Mum: We have fuck at home
Home: Heck
I’m adding Fuck Off! Images of Finland to my watch list.
That DOES sound very romantic! 😆
American Fiction dragged a little at times, but the decision to name his book “Fuck” was brilliant.
And my axe!
No! Wait! (Lengthy pause)
Use the axe to fuck the house, Israel AND the Orcs! Much better plan.
In the middle of the street.
Should be 86.8 bil to Ukraine and 0 to the terrorist organisation of Isreal
“Can’t” afford universal healthcare, and “can’t” afford student debt relief, but we sure can magic up money for killing!
The US government spends more per capita in healthcare than any country with universal healthcare and then a big chunk of the population also pays for private health insurance over that.
It’s not about not being able to afford it, it would even be cheaper.
That’s just the efficiency of the free market. It’s certainly efficient at something, just not delivering quality health care or keeping costs down.
That’s why I put can’t in quotes. We obviously can (because, as you pointed out, we already do) but there’s a minority of Americans wielding outsized amounts of power keeping it from happening.
I’m sure 90% of the actual value of that money won’t go to killing. It’s gonna be going to military contractor profits. So 10% is going to production and transport of the killing tools. The rest is shareholder pool parties and yachts. It’s still not healthcare. It’s still pretty bad. But hey, at least a small part of it will stop some people getting raped by Russian invaders.
Oh don’t get me wrong, we should be doing far more to help Ukraine. It’s just frustrating to hear about all the things we “can’t” afford and how we can’t raise the debt, yet have some magical well full of unlimited money when it comes to military spending.
It’s not about affordability at all. The people that are willing to loan the US money are only willing to loan the US money for guns and bullets to go to Israel, money to Ukraine is good as long as its for more guns and bullets because weapons have a great ROI. Healthcare for all in the US has poor ROI so there is no point t to it. People are replaceable here in the US. That’s why they’re trying to push through AI way too early on us all.
With the coming Grant’s Pass Supreme Court decision to legalize slavery against homeless people coming soon, who needs regular employees. Just CCI Prison Slaves for all your manual labor needs. Also, all the former abolitionist states have now passed total gun control legislation so people will no longer be able to break out their slave family members from their prison worksites.
I never wanted to actually live in the Cyberpunk 2020 world. I was just hoping for some of the bonuses instead of all of the negatives.
Yes, because killing Russian military saves lives. Russia is shelling cities in Ukraine, killing civilians. Your problems are valid, but are nothing compared to getting killed in your sleep by a Russian rocket
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and another that forces Tiktok’s parent company to sell it.
Capitalists never play fair, lol.
Can’t wait to see some stupid western company take the place of tiktok then all the retards complaining about tiktok suddenly shutting up.
They don’t realize there’s a trade war going on and they’re just useful idiots in it.
Nah. I don’t think Bytedance sells. The big enchilada is the source code and that’s not getting sold because there’s 6 Billion more people they can get on the app.
There are several right-wing groups eager to buy it, which is 100% why they’re going after it.
Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook. They’re going to control all of it soon.
Din they’ll be requiring expensive identity verification for online accounts to make the fediverse financially unsustainable.
I wonder if Orange Julius Caesar will be getting an aggrieved call from Pootin…
Ahead of the vote, former President Donald Trump issued a confusing statement that sympathized with both the pro- and anti-Ukraine aid factions of the GOP without taking a clear position.
very much. more and more.
