A war nobody wanted
Correction, the people a narrow majority of USians elected to the highest offices did want that war. Some of them for decades. Because they’re in the pocket of Israel, that also wanted this war for decades.
Then those people soundly lost that war, and this is the fine you’re paying for that. Not just those people of course, but everyone.
If you wanna thank someone for it, punch the closest MAGA asshole and politely say ‘thank you’
We’re probably gonna have to rescind that “most powerful man” title
What the fuck is mission tacomplished even?
TACO — trump always chickens out
What happened yesterday. That’s what
I’ll never understand until the day I die how any American can watch their tax dollars used to bomb the shit out of a country, and then their tax dollars used to rebuild that same country…and see that as a win.
Oil down, markets up, keep believing the illusion and everything will surely be ok…
You aren’t seeing the opinions of the average American. The average American has no idea what is going on until they ask their coworker why the gas prices are so high. The average American has a coworker that is happy to inform them of the mainstream media narrative, basically telling them that all they can do is “vote”. Occasionally getting a MAGA perspective depending on where they live.
But, they won’t get pushed into organizing and, quite frankly, they don’t have the time or money to even start.
The average American then thinks “hmmm, that doesn’t sound right but I don’t have time or energy to investigate that”.
They move on with their day so long as they can stay above water by leveraging credit card debt and whatever amount of gig work they can fit in. On the rare days they have off work they will recover by either scrolling videos or going out with friends that are just as unknowledgeable about the world as they are. Maybe some of them get a short explanation of the gas prices from a video they watched.
The average American needs their working class conditions improved to give them time to educate themselves. “Wow, they pay for child care in New York City? Thats what socialism is?”. This is our one last hope at educating the masses. I don’t think electing 100 Mamdani’s will change our system from within. But, it is however, the best way to educate and show the population what political power that favors the working class can do.
Either that or, the entire countries material conditions need to decline so drastically that the population is forced into action because they literally can’t afford bread to eat. And that will result in higher degrees of fascism as the capitalist state defends itself; and “century of humiliation” levels of conditions will result in America after our empire lashes out to the rest of the world.
Yeah it’s the last thing unfortunately. It’s already started on the margins of society (disabled, socioeconomically isolated). We just had a disabled person kill themselves in Canada in protest. It starts there and slowly works its way up the status ladder until it’s serfs and lords again.
Not sure there is a solution, more like it’s just a cycle built into a greed based system.
Many people don’t think. They feel.
When their in-group is going along with something, they go along with it, too. Feels good to them. It’s a high.
That’s it. That’s the problem. It’s a big part of why republicans vote against their real-life interests. They’re more concerned with chasing the high of being part of the in-group. So, sure, Trump might lose a lot of money and influence and everything, but he’s our tribe-mate!
It’s stupid. Worse then children. Worse than dogs.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
- LBJ
Now that I think of it, it makes perfect sense that they’re always screaming “indoctrination” when left wing ideas like environmentalism or basic kindness are taught to children… they don’t think it’s based on reality, just the opposing “feeling” side of their own version of reality. No facts, just feelings. And those feelings go against what their tribe says.
So, if you believe Elmo’s number, we gave them two DOGEs worth of money (if you believe the internal audits we gave them 50 to 300 DOGEs)
It’s hard to keep repeating that $300bn isn’t a gift but a repayment for belligerent bombing and murder. The US won’t give Iran the money for fun, but will pay to repair the damage and compensate for losses.
Until the instant Donald Trump thinks reneging on the agreement will benefit him.
Which wouldn’t need to be paid if the moron hadn’t embarked on a pointless war. Is anyone here mad about only the money? Highly doubt it.
Don’t forget, it’s their money we’ve held.
We’ll make our GCC vassals do it since we have made it clear we won’t actually fund the reconstruction fund.
War indemnities
It’s simply because the ruling billionaire class believes there are too many people in the world and they simply want most of us dead. They fully understand how little money it would cost. However, providing health care other things that people need are counter productive to their goals.
They will not give it to you. They will manipulate you by teasing it as a possibility.
No cdc, usaid, hhs, etc. Nothing that keeps you alive. They want you dead, they want pandemics to thin the herd. Wars are great, they make rich richer and kill poor people, really efficient.
Not yet. Have to perfect the robot worker first. They push too hard and people will push back, and they know this. Fortunately people are also good at infighting among themselves and losing focus, which is what they fuel a lot.
I know. Crazy, right?
“Most powerful man in the world”. Nationalistic egocentrism never fails to get a laugh out of me.
That sleepy pedophile is ostensibly in control of the most powerful military on the planet by an order of magnitude, so it’s not inaccurate, just unfortunate.
most powerful military on the planet by an order of magnitude
Apparently, that reckoning only works if you include the nukes, which even Trump couldn’t get anyone to use.
Considering this is a topic about said military losing a war this point seems rather moot.
Keep the jokes coming!
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by an order of magnitude
I think it’s time to question: Which magnitude?
We know they spend a lot of billions on the army. Big numbers in comparison to any other country.
However Trump also just paid $14.2 million to have a pool guy throw buckets of paint into a pond. With no effect.
If this is the same way that money is spend elsewhere in the government, throughout different presidents sure, but if this is any kind of measurement of how the US makes investments, then I don’t have to question why the military airplanes are falling down by themselves on a daily basis.
Also look at the January 6th. happening. Whether or not you’re for or against what happened, you have to admit that it’s pathetic that a bunch of hooligans could simply walk straight in from the street and literally shit on the table of the “most powerful” administration. It could as well have been someone with a dirty bomb.
You owe them a lot more than that without the war at all!
Absolutely you can, when your leadership doesn’t feel accountable to you in any way.
Are you talking about Putin or Xi?
This meme sums up everything there is to say about the U.S.: This war is an act of aggression against a sovereign state that is completely contrary to international law. It doesn’t matter at all how inhumane the ruling regime is (if that were the case, both the U.S. and Israel would be held accountable for their crimes).
It really is all too telling: The U.S. is deliberately bombing schools, where hundreds of children are being torn to pieces by their bombs, but all U.S. citizens care about is how much of their tax money is being spent.
This country is beyond redemption; it is the embodiment of evil. Your president represents your wreched country as well as anyone could: absolute selfishness, absolute inhumanity. That is the U.S.
Edit: Just look at the downvotes even here in there Fediverse. You’d think these would be the decent Americans…
Edit:
All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.
United Nations, Charter of the United Nations, Article 2(4), available at https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text.
Pretty sure the meme is expressing that most US citizens would have preferred spending money on fixing our own problems instead of bombing innocents.
This meme expresses what reasonably educated U.S. citizens think. And it’s not even the irrational MAGA cult, which has no foothold in the Fediverse. These are U.S. citizens expressing their opinions on this platform. And their opinion is that the heinous war crimes committed by their governments don’t matter—only their own well-being does.
If these are supposed to be the critical-thinking U.S. citizens, it’s very easy for me to understand how it’s possible that a serious criminal and obvious pedophile can be their president.
And their opinion is that the heinous war crimes committed by their governments don’t matter—only their own well-being does.
Yeah, we never ever see any US citizens decrying their governments actions here. Never. Nope. No one speaks up at all, you’re right.
all U.S. citizens care about is how much of their tax money is being spent.
This is an intentionally moronic string of shit you made up to further your hatred for a nation, you fucking bigot. Thanks for letting me know though. I aim to block all the toxics.
I think your completely inappropriate national pride has made you completely forget what the word “bigot” means.
I’m really sorry, but you’re a rogue state—which, by the way, is a term the U.S. itself invented.
Here’s my point: You’re still defending the actions of your obviously completely degenerate regime because you see yourself as a proud American. Newsflash: Everything you believe defines your country is a lie.
There is no country in the world that harms the progress of humanity as much as the U.S.
The reason is your inhuman ideology.
