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[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 64 points 8 months ago

Israel doesn’t need our support. Ukraine does. Easy choice.

[-] Pili@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 8 months ago

Palestine needs our support though.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Palestine isn't getting our support, and these current events will not change that at all.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 8 months ago

Removing funding from israel will indirectly support palestine, because then israel will stop pissing away US tax dollars on chemical weapons

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[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

I lack the words, so I have used interpretive meming instead.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 21 points 8 months ago

Christ what resolution was that image? 8k?! Why was it 6MB? I got to watch that load in like dial up, 1 line at a time. I finished the punchline before an elbow even appeared on my screen

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Because its a virus now you are infected. If you want to save your computer you have to throw it in the lake

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 8 months ago

Will any lake do? Or is there a specific lake that IT professionals prefer?

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

The wet one

[-] atetulo@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

There really should be an option to hide these images by default.

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Can't remember if it was an option I clicked but I don't see them, just the url.

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

@Krauerking for those of us who don't click on image links, what is it an image of?

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 8 months ago

The window shopping boyfriend and upset girlfriend but the US being excited for the new hotness that is Israel instead of the slow burn Ukraine.

All in a resolution of that image that allows me to count the fricking beard hairs on the guy and see the loose thread at his collar. It's like they went and got the original from Shutterstock to make the meme.

[-] livus@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

@Krauerking thanks! I don't think I've ever seen that thing in anything other than low res, this is pretty funny.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah I wouldn't think it came in 2500x1667 pixels mostly cause I don't think that's a normal image size

[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

@Krauerking I'm dying. @Flyberius are you the original photographer or something? This is kind of intriguing.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

Me living in a (semi-)civilized nation which actually has access to high speed internet

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

The paper tiger is beginning to shred. Hopefully.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

The US, famous for just rolling over. You guys are on more copium than imperial japan and it’s hilarious.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

The US has a lot of criticism that can be leveled at it, but "paper tiger" certainly isn't one.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago

Literally the Vietnamese called the US a paper tiger and then kicked the US' ass.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months ago

If what the US did to Vietnam and Cambodia over 20+ years is a "paper tiger" then uh, I don't think a real tiger exists.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago

Do genocide and fail at winning wars against relatively small impoverished nations?

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -2 points 8 months ago

I guess if killing 1million+ Vietnamese is something a "paper tiger" does sure the US is a "paper tiger."

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago

Yes. This isn't call of duty where the goal is to kill as many people as possible. The US got its ass kicked.

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[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 19 points 8 months ago

"Stretching its ability to support Ukraine"...for now.

The problem isn't that we can't do both because we certainly can, the problem is that we're running out of money to do it UNDER CURRENT APPROPRIATIONS BILLS.

Congress will eventually return to session and more appropriations bills will pass; the only questions are how much and how quickly it will be done.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Better start a bidding war for boom boom rations, or scale back the secret wars in the global South. Damn making the $Trillion military pick and choose.

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 14 points 8 months ago

Why do you need to support Israel at all beyond the amount that was previously being done? They're not in an actual war and they're not having to defend against an invasion like Ukraine is.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

Geopolitically speaking, you should completely pull out of Israel. Seriously, do it. Pull all funding from Israel.

[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 7 points 8 months ago

Why is Israel, who is hardly the victim in their conflict and strangely very well funded by US taxpayers ,being conflated with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a dictatorship?

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The only constant between those two is the fascism.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The White House said it was “running out of runway” on supporting both Ukraine and Israel as US Republican lawmakers warned they would protest any funding request for military aid from the Biden administration for the two crisis-hit nations.

Mr Kirby was answering a question at a daily briefing on the administration meeting the immediate needs of Ukraine and Israel along with the continuing fight to elect a House Speaker.

The National Security Council coordinator also said the House Speaker position was critical in terms of bringing legislation to the floor and moving things forward.

The White House has been considering a budget request tying money for these two conflicts together to increase the chances that the heavily-debated assistance for Ukraine will be approved.

He told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will send more military assistance to help Israel fight Hamas.

The US is already rushing munitions and military equipment to Israel and has deployed a carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean as deterrence.


The original article contains 417 words, the summary contains 168 words. Saved 60%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] Porka_911@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

Israel is like David and Goliath, but this time Goliath wins.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

While there is no evidence to support it, some experts are pointing at Putin's lukewarm response after the attack, and the fact that this division of efforts is immensely helpful to his invasion in Ukraine, and are wondering if he worked with Iran to help arm and plan this attack by Hamas.

So, in other words, "stretching its ability to support Ukraine" was the whole point.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4250708-putins-fingerprints-are-on-hamas/

[-] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

I too enjoy consuming conspiracy theories dressed up as news

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