It's not for nothing,it's to fund Israel and his genocide
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
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Also, Israel has universal healthcare.
Never thought about this.
They really do fund a whole country that has way higher living standards (unless you're "an Arab" of course) than their own.
What's even worse is that the Israeli economy depends on Palestinian labor. Palestinians have practically none of the rights of Israelis, and are subject to genocide and settler-colonial terror, yet Palestinians do a large portion of underpaid labor propping up the Israeli economy. Palestinians are dehumanized, treated as tools to be used and discarded, and this is perfectly natural to Zionists because the conditions of settler-colonialism reinforce this view and create it. This is why a one-state solution is necessary, and Palestine must be free.
There's a reason for the animosity of South Africa to Israel. They recognize an apartheid state and don't like it.
Bingo! Same with other anti-colonial and anti-imperialist countries. Cuba, the DPRK, Ireland, Algeria, Nicaragua, Yemen, China, and more are some of the most supportive countries in the world for Palestine.
And free higher education from what I'm told.
I’m not sure Israeli education is worth even zero dollars, given the kind of monsters it’s churning out.
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Given the size of the US economy that is peanuts. Bill Clinton managed to pay for Israel and have a balanced budget. The real truth is that the US has cut taxes for the rich. That meant less income and still old levels of spending, hence more debt.
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Kinda. Funding the Zionist entity is a part of a grander strategy maintaining US global hegemony, via IP monopoly, control of the dollar, and dominance of the IMF and NATO. All of these institutions work together to allow the US to siphon an enormous amount of global wealth production into a handful of billionaire pockets. Supporting genocide isn't the end itself, but a consequence of the means for that grander end of billionaire profit.
Amerikkka has centibillionaires and trillionaires. Those are super-expensive.
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The billionaires are richer though.
Oh but they have a lot to show for it. Ask anyone living in Iran. Or Israel.
Just not in the USA itself.
What a weird concept.
Everybody in the world can see what American money buys, except Americans.
We can see it just fine. There's nothing we can do. If you say take arms and start killing people, you'll get a nice ban. Even if we did that, tye rich would hide in their secret bunkers until we all died and buy our houses for pennies on the dollar, and then they'll be in your country buying all your stuff because it still will not be enough.
Workers can still practice the age-old mantra, educate, agitate, organize. Revolutions are made by the people, but they do not succeed without mass class consciousness and organized leadership. This is where making worker parties come in, by creating educated and disciplined worker organizations, through collective struggle the people come to more correct understandings of the class struggle. The answer isn't to take up arms immediately, because the people aren't unified. This can only come through consistent, deliberate education.
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Won't somebody think of the military industrial complex!?
A lot of that money went to funding tax cuts for the Epstein class.
This must be what they mean when they talk about American exceptionalism.
But, they do have good, hard working folks like Elon Musk. That alone makes it all worth it. /s
But the DOW…
Does that secretary of the week even still have their job?
Lol no. Wasn't she the one who got bitchy about not being inside the airlines food cart? And then she was also fired for being pregnant.
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But we have more billionaires than any other country. Isn't that what makes America great? What more do you want?
Here. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos will trickle down a little more on your head. There you go. Now don't you feel all warm and soaking wet? Bitch.
America's only great for the 1%.
If all the DSA's in the running get elected, we'll see some measure of change.
There were only like six Tea Party reps that got elected way back when, and we saw how they were able to shake things up.
The Tea Party was pushing on an open door. Democrats and Republicans alike were enthusiastically in favor of slashing SS/Medicare, gutting education and housing development, privatizing prisons, and cutting taxes.
The DSA will have an uphill battle. Everything they're asking for in the US is Haram under the current socio-economic order.
You could certainly be right about that, It's fair to note that DSA's face an uphill battle.
To add to UnderpantsWeevil's response there is also a pent up demand for something better but that better is going to take time and negotiations (since DSA will not have majority control). My worry is that people will get frustrated that things are not changing fast enough and vote out the progressives.
The necessary changes cannot go through reform, though. Even if the DSA wins, those gains will be temporary at best. Socialism is still necessary, and still requires smashing the capitalist state apparatus and replacing it.
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You'd think they'd have at least bullet trains.
They keep emphasizing 'trains'. You gotta know your market. Emphasize the 'bullet'.
Yeah, we have all sorts of trains, at least for freight, but no “bullet”. How did that happen?
Technically there’s Acela - this morning I watched a video where someone used their gps to catch Acela hitting its top speed of 160mph. High speed rail! Technically. For a few minutes
Well, they have lots of bullets and, like, at least two trains.
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Plenty of rich higher up trash, though. Just sayin.
We have the most billionaires!
And even the military is a laughing stock and being out of stock of interceptor missiles.
Guess who holds 460 billion dollars worth of it?
I was going to guess Stablecoins, but they only appear to hold $250B. Hedge Funds apparently hold over $2T.
Then I was going to guess Japan or the UK, but it turns out they hold way more - $1.1T and $925B - respectively.
Apparently, the Cayman Islands holds $460B. Is that the answer?
🤞Please don’t be a triple parentheses guy…
They have an aircraft carrier with no catering that would be sunk by hypersonics within minutes of a real war breaking out.
Come on, we have our very own trillionaire!
Yeah, definitely those DSA are just jealous. I protest any policy that would get in the way of me becoming a trillionaire though.
We did get stuff, poisoned water, poisoned food, and maybe a trillionaire!
theres also disconnect between the voters and the debt, they dont anything is happening to them financially so they ignore it.
In principle, being the preferred world currency and reserve currency means that Treasury bonds are a safe way to build their reserves while gaining interest. This keeps the American dollar and the American led world relevant. In other words, if America goes down, so will you. This also gives the US a lot of coersive leverage over developing nations to exploit their land and labor. This means that the core of the US empire gets access to cheap resources and labor. What the US gets is highly malleable power.
You’re using the wrong verb tense here. All of that used to be true, but a lot of the current chaos and destruction goes toward reducing this power.
We painted ourselves into a corner here throwing away advantages left and right thinking we’ll always be able to influence or economically coerce other countries, but now we seem to be throwing that away as well, just to be jackasses
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