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I don't think americans realized that they are paying for the biggest strongest army in the world, that can literally chose to invade any country, but they themselfs have to pay for life saving medication without a job because they don't have free health care nor medical paid leave, all this while spending their whole lifes paying for student loans. When people question this thay say "we are protecting our way of life"
DUDE... WTF...Do something
From Dwight Eisenhower's Cross of Iron speech:
...Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron...
I’m an American immigrant in Germany. What I didn’t realize is how fucking cheap everything about healthcare is, not just insurance, but the various other costs. I take (generic) vyvanse, which cost me about a hundred bucks a month, in addition to monthly doctors visits and urine tests, totaling about $200-300 (it was still around $90 a month after hitting the deductible). In Germany, I go to a doctor every other month for free, don’t have to do any testing, and the prescription costs ~16€/month.
Germans have healthcare insurance?
Everything is free here in Scotland, including prescriptions.
Germans have insurance and pay for prescriptions, but it’s not a huge amount (from my perspective, I hear a lot of people complaining about how expensive insurance is). However, insurance isn’t tied to your job and afaik, the government pays for your insurance if you lose your job (and the less you earn, the less it costs).
Depends on which American you're speaking to. It's a big country.
Yeah, I’m too poor to have even those problems
Hot new “land war in Asia” just dropped.
Time to stock up on iocane
Will Trump follow other peoples plans? They gave him the power of an emperor, so it seems interesting to see if he wants the negotiations as the said he wants or to follow the other fascists opinions.
Is he in absolute power, as a fascist, or is he sharing power with other fascists?
I recommend reading The Dictator's Handbook by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith. As CGP Grey says, no man rules alone. Even Trump has to answer to key supporters in his coalition or face an ousting.
Yeah, but the people that are doing this gave this power to him, putting people in the government that are loyal to him, not to any other person in congress/supreme court.
He took the government like Sulla, took out any person that he disliked and put loyalists there. Sulla divided the Senate, etc, but after just took the power from them. This book and CGP Grey talk in a way of following some rules that are out of the window and I think this situation is more like what Maquiavelli describes in the "taking a new state for yourself", he cleaned the slate, this people have only institutional power, but there are no more rules as the people in real power, in the executive branch, are totally loyal to him.
He told AIPAC to go fuck themselves (metaphorically) and seems to dislike Netanyahu, this is unprecendented for the fascist party, but not to him. He took their missiles and sent them to Ukraine. I think he took absolute power already, The Heritage Foundation and the other republicans can only complain, I think he makes the rules now.
This is my analysis, but only the future will show.
Edit: Just hope for the bad luck of a "fanatic", as Machiavelli describes, to kill him.