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Protesters calling for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war block freeway in Seattle for several hours (apnews.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Philo@sh.itjust.works to c/usa@lemmy.ml
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Can someone please calmly explain how blocking a freeway across an ocean and a country on a different continent, is supposed to have any effect on a political issue in the middle east?

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[–] rab@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well they are funding it with those protestors' tax dollars

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah that too.

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I was American I would also be livid, like what the fuck are you guys doing

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I mean, our tax dollars regularly go to heinous shit. Just the fact that like 50% of the US budget for living memory goes to the military means that you're already starting deeply in the moral red.