And that’s just what they admit to publicly.

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    Ain’t no war better than a proxy war. Libs don’t lose their kids, political support so easy to maintain

    Love to see the defense stock skyrocket. They’re the real winners

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    There are usually half a million homeless people in the USA. That means that they could’ve bought each and every one of those a 200k dollar home with that money. They could also have paid a total of 50 million months of rent at the 2000$ median price. And this is even taking as a premise that housing should be sellable or rentable in the first place. And yet they preferred this instead.

    Any Yankee around still not convinced that the USA government needs to end, this is your moment to reconsider.

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    That’s not really astounding to me. Hell, our government made the decision over a weekend to give 22 billion to bail out Silicon Valley Bank. Our government spends this kind of money without blinking. They only act like it’s too much when it would be used to help the average citizen.

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      If US spent even a fraction of the money it spends on trying to cling to global hegemony on fighting climate change we wouldn’t be in a climate crisis right now.

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    It seems they got rattled by Russia’s rebellion against NATO. They want to preserve their hegemony as much as possible.

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    Instead of spending a fraction of that money to improve its own people’s lives, the US yet again prioritizes supporting fascist scum over valuing human life. The US terrorist regime needs to be sent where it belongs, the dustbin of history!

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    God how many lifesaving materials could that money buy

    hospital equipment, hospitals, vaccines, infrastructure repair, debt relief, healthcare, fucking anything!

    but now its just burned on a war they will lose in like 3 years

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    Literally no one I know is happy about this. I have yet to meet a single living person who approves of all this unchecked money and equipment being sent to some European country most people didn’t know about until 2014.

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    $1 million dollars to everybody living in the USA with billions left over.

    Healthcare? Nope, too expensive.

    Better water or power service? Nope, too expensive.

    Public transport? Nope, too expensive.

    War? Oh shit yeah! Money 🖨 go brrrrr!

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      Nah it’s only 337 dollars to everyone living in the USA. But I agree that it would have bought a lot of healthcare and infrastructure instead of pouring it down the toilet that is the Ukrainian military.

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        'kay fine… I’ll be more specific.

        $1 million dollars “to each and every living person within the arbitrary borders of the United States of Mayo-vania”

        There… are you happy… now.

        mumbles in Rodney Dangerfield, “Can’t get no respect round here… none at all”

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              you seemed to double down on your math error instead of investigating and correcting it. It just looks silly unless there was a a joke I missed.

              if libs saw this they would post this to a tankiejerk comm saying “Hexbear can’t math. Explains why they like communism 100 billion dead” etc. I don’t wanna give them easy Ws.

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                Okay so I’m seeing less of a math error and more of a, I didn’t specifically say give everybody living in the USA $1million dollars each. So… like… 11 billion minus what… somewhere around 400 million is like… counts on fingers, 10 billion and change for war and 400 million people with some cash in pocket to pay bills or buy new teeth or whatever.

                Instead, the comment decided to interpret my lack of specificity as, “$1million divided up between 400million.” Which is genuinely funny and I figured I would roll with the dig.

                And I mean, liberals are gonna liberal. I’m not too worried about it. But I can appreciate the concern. comrade-doggo

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                  The amount you’re looking for is a dollar. If you take 400 million out of the spending and divide it equally among 400 million people, everyone gets a dollar. I 100% agree that everyone getting that dollar would be an improvement upon current state, but a dollar doesn’t even get you a slice anymore, much less pay for new teeth.

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    Good thing there were no massive fires recently in any states within their own country that need aid, or a widespread epidemic of homelessness, or people starving in the streets.

    Must be great that they have everything so under control domestically that there is absolutely nothing else that that money could be spent on. So yeah, keep it going forever, that seems to make sense.