• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    We send $5,000,000,000 in outright charity to Israel, not including what our legislators are about to fork over as soon as they get their stock portfolios situated in the best ways to profit from it.

    That’s $100,000,000 per state that could be used to fix potholes or help Americans in other ways, but we’re silly geese who 100% support neglecting our own people in favor of war, so we’re getting what we voted for.

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      It’s been a closer to 3B for a while. Against a budget of $1.7T. It’s not even a rounding error.

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        It’s always cute how warmongers pretend that those billions wouldn’t make a huge difference for struggling Americans.

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          I don’t know what in that sentence gives you the confidence to call me a warmonger.

          And also, no, it wont really. Unless you redefine “huge difference”. We spend $522B on social/economic assistance programs at the federal level. So a 0.005% 0.5% increase? Hardly a huge difference.

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                that’s how percentages work lol. if you have 100 usd, 100.5 usd would be a 0.5% increase not a 0.005 percent increase (which you would get by dividing 0.5/100, right?)

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            Yeah, just that 3 billion comes out to $60,000,000 if divided equally between all 50 states. Instead it’s being pissed away on other countries’ wars.

            By any stretch that is huge.

            You’re absolutely using the warmonger’s logic to support your position here, so no need to clutch your pearls.

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              Except that it’s half a percent. It’s another half a penny on every dollar.

              It’s not huge by any stretch.

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      Exactly. Israel already received tremendous amount of money way before the conflict. And yet, US Congress voted to allow more military aid package to Israel. The money could have gone to those who need them more, both to domestic and to Ukraine who are still fighting the Russians.

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        Israel already received tremendous amount of money way before the conflict.

        The conflict has been ongoing since 1949.