Please, not fixing potholes have been around longer than the current Palestinian/Israeli and also a completely stupid reduction of the complexity of this whole fucked up situation.
This sign says it all.
Submitted 1 year ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
smooth_tea@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s nothing complex about it. Israel imprisons an entire people and every time the UN tries to do something about it the US vetoes it.
The “it’s complex” excuse is used to have people look the other way by turning it into a hopeless situation.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
If there were some psychopaths that were insanely dedicated to killing you wouldn’t you want there to be a fence between you and them? It’s indeed not all that complex. Israel built a fence as a barrier between them and the psychopaths Palestinians elected to be their government. Seemed a better option than sending in the IDF to attempt a regime change. But apparently the fence wasn’t effective, so not many options left other than regime change now.
Hamas has always been the problem. How would you protect people from these psychopaths?
masquenox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
not fixing potholes have been around longer
They haven’t been fixing potholes since 1949? Those potholes must be huge.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yup, longer than the US has been sending aid to Israel, which actually started in the 1970s. Sorry for introducing facts into your ragefest.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Try thousands of years bc. This didn’t “start” in 1949.
GardeningSadhu@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, but the money that should be fixing potholes, and paying teachers, and providing healthcare have been going to war for as long as the USA has been around.
snipe_at@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TBH, The US pays more for healthcare than defense. Hell social security is the number 1 expense.
Rolder@reddthat.com 1 year ago
It’d be way more effective if the road pictured wasn’t absolutely perfect and pothole free
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For the meme, maybe, but IRL maybe the road is no as nice as that one section.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
This isn’t a problem if your thought process is slightly more sophisticated than an 8 year old’s.
arc@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Love the false equivalence. Your city taxes can’t fix the potholes because your federal taxes pay for a military.
hark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Those federal taxes cannot be allocated to state funds which cannot then be allocated to city funds to maintain roads?
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No because they must be spent to kill Palestinian children. Get your Merican priorities straight.
mingistech@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Federal tax funds the maintenance of the Interstate Highways.
TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Where do you see an interstate highway in the pic?
vox@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
and the interstate highways aren’t that bad in terms of shape tho?
fender_symphonic584@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re not wrong, but original point could still be right, depending in the road. There are many federal highways and interstates, where this equivalence makes sense. However most other roads are state, county or city owned.
FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 1 year ago
All children in Gaza are terriosts! Or potential terriosts! Isreal NEEDS to bomb ambulances, hospitals and water wells because that is where all the terriosts are! ya see?Any amount of infrastructure supports terriosism! Bombing is a nessecity!
It's outright ghoulish.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
“Anyone who runs is Viet Cong. Anyone who stands still is well disciplined Viet Cong.”
rubicon@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
How can you shoot women and children?!?!
Easy, you just don’t lead them as much
quatschkopf34@feddit.de 1 year ago
Well, it‘s actually true that Hamas uses civil infrastructure and civilians as shields, you can’t deny that. Of course that doesn‘t mean that Israel can just bomb everything.
tryptaminev@feddit.de 1 year ago
in an area where the population density is 5,300 people/km2 “human shields” is a quite weak argument. It is practically impossible to seperate civillian and military infrastructure in such densely populated areas.
For comparision the Netherlands has about 500 people/km2 and it is one of the most densely populated countries in Europe.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Somebody should tell Israel
masquenox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it‘s actually true that Hamas uses civil infrastructure and civilians as shields
Riiight… there’s a Hamas “terrorist” hiding behind every Palestinian child… and if you can’t see them, it just proves how sneaky they are, amirite?
Gandarf@startrek.website 1 year ago
Who said this?
Hello_there@kbin.social 1 year ago
Israel's actions did
CluckN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The dude in my garden who scares away birds does.
TinyPizza@kbin.social 1 year ago
Whichever Hasbara the wheel lands on usually. Some are better than others though.
TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Said no one. Ever. Except you.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We send $5,000,000,000 in outright charity to Israel.
That’s $100,000,000 per state that could be used to fix potholes or help Americans in other ways, but we’re silly geese who 100% support neglecting our own people in favor of war, so we’re getting what we voted for.
stevehobbes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s been a closer to 3B for a while. Against a budget of $1T. It’s not even a rounding error.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s always cute how warmongers pretend that those billions wouldn’t make a huge difference for struggling Americans.
crackajack@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Exactly. Israel already received tremendous amount of money way before the conflict. And yet, US Congress voted to allow more military aid package to Israel. The money could have gone to those who need them more, like domestic and to Ukraine.
masquenox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Israel already received tremendous amount of money way before the conflict.
The conflict has been ongoing since 1949.
rchive@lemm.ee 1 year ago
US sends money to Palestine, too. So does much of Europe.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The u.s destroyed half my country, killed tons of my people, bought up the wreckage and now owns us. But none of you gave a shit, cause the news didn’t tell you to care
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah that doesn’t really narrow it down.
Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 1 year ago
You poor soul, you must be a citizen of a nation on planet earth.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 1 year ago
That’s true for a lot of the states.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And what country is that?
droans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
According to his comment history, the US.
Surp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What country
registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 1 year ago
Sorry to hear you did not get the option to become a vassal state and a US military base like so many others. It did give us a few good years at the cost of corrupting our societies and souls.
Big daddy if you’re watching I’m only joking, I love you with all my heart and bow at your magnificence!
S_204@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, they didn’t care because it didn’t give them a chance to be Anti Semitic. All of these from the river to the sea chants are explicitly calling for a fucking genocide and people are proudly lining up to scream it.
Wild times we live in. There are significant human loses happening in Yemen, China, and a host of places right now but this group of terrorists in Gaza with their supporters in Iran have figured out the tik tok algorithm a whole lot better the poor people of Yemen or the Uyghurs ever did so those people are simply forgotten.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is 100% how it works for most of the people here in America.
It’s why they’re rooting for another hundred billion of our tax dollars to be sent to other country’s wars even though they’re living with a 30-50% cost of living increase under Biden, who has no intention of sending us our own money in the form of aid.
tygerprints@kbin.social 1 year ago
True and also because people today lack empathy for what the real horrors of war actually put people through. I do give a shit -but it's like tossing a turd into the ocean of hate and thinking it will somehow sparkle. I hate war and the horrible inhumanity of war, but when I say that people accuse of me being on a "high horse of moral superiority." If it's superior to dislike war - I'm all too happy to agree with them.
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tupac cares if don’t nobody else care
tygerprints@kbin.social 1 year ago
Ain't that the truth. Not to mention the Israeli children gutted and beheaded by Hamas back on Oct 7th. Our tax dollars didn't pay for that, but they sure are going toward ensuring more kids and regular civilians are turned into worm food for some nonsensical war over a strip of land neither side really wants to be stuck with.
Dewded@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isn’t this a photoshop? Boring Dystopia is a lot more poignant when the content it shows has some reality to it.
While the point the image is trying to make does have quite a bit of reality behind it, the shopping is to its detriment.
downpunxx@kbin.social 1 year ago
poor poor "palestinian" cinnamon rolls, never did nothin to nobody
awww cry me a fucking river, guess instead of having all those islamofascist muslim nations vote against israel time and time again, they should have gotten egypt to invade gaza sooner, through it's land crossing in raffah, to root out hamas, pij, and all the other terrorists who attack israel. what is that you say, the united nations islamofascists don't mind when muslim terrorists attack israel and kill jews, only when jews respond with force in their defense?
you don't say
Gaza was given to Arabs for self rule and determination in 2005, all Jews left Gaza, even Jewish graveyards were dug up and moved, it was theirs to do with as they liked.
They've spent the last 18 years making into a terrorist Disneyland with a dozen Islamofascist terrorist organizations with the stated goal of killing Jews and destroying the state of Israel, they've fired hundreds of thousands of missiles into Israel indiscriminately targeting civilians, and launched countless cross borders attacks against Jewish civilians, including one that caused the largest loss of Jewish life in any single day, anywhere, since the Holocaust on October 7th.
They were given Gaza to live in freedom and self determination, they used it to kill Jews. They were warned. They chose to ignore the warnings.
These acts of terrorism were perpetrated by the entire Gazan community, they voted for Hamas, and allowed Hamas to rule their government for the last 17 years, Hamas and all the other Islamic terrorists in Gaza are not outsiders, they were born in Gaza of Gazans, they were raised in Gaza, they were educated in Gaza, they married and had children of their own in Gaza, their Parents, teachers, mosques, hospitals, are all in Gaza, from which they use to hid and store weapons to attack Jews, Hamas, PIJ and all the other Islamic terrorist in Gaza ARE Gaza, there has been no uprising in Gaza, there have only been attacks on Israel. This is what Gazans have supported and sacrificed for in every way they possibly could.
And now it's here. I do hope they enjoy what they've worked generationaly to achieve.
There will be no ceasefire this time.
Daqu@feddit.de 1 year ago
Just put the babies in the potholes.
PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Sweet Photoshop champ.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What does this abstraction contribute to the discourse? Does it rile up support for fixing potholes? Does it rile up support for Palestine?
My feeling is it obfuscates the issues and makes progress seem impossible.
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is literally true; heads are comfy in pits of sand.
TechDiver@kbin.social 1 year ago
"Your tax dollars help protect innocent people against terror"
S_204@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The dystopia will get a whole lot less boring if the civilized world allows Islamic jihadism to achieve its goals.
This is an investment in your future.
SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Financially the US is gaining from it all, like she is from the Ukraine war. The point is good, but Israel buying weapons systems from the US means less potholes.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well gotta spend money to make money I guess
MooseBoys@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Accurate except for the “instead” part. Road maintenance comes from local taxes, whereas military aid comes from federal taxes.
Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Except the feds also feed money back to the states to be used on things like roads.
randon31415@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unless you have the wrong drinking age in your state.
Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well if you really want to get technical about it… Accurate except that no programs or spending are really funded by taxes anyway, they government just says “OK” and the companies implementing said program have the number in their bank accounts goes up. Taxes funding things is just a myth. Taxes just delete money. So technically, nothing is funded by taxes and taxes are just a money void.
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the wikipedia page says:
i don’t think your comment properly highlights how controversial MMT is. i’m not an economist, but i don’t think it’s fair to use language like “taxes funding things is a myth” and “technically nothing is funded by taxes and taxes are just a money void”, when those claims rely on such a controversial theory.
stevehobbes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean this is a cute clever thing that sounds smart that isn’t.
The government pays for things. The government funds that through monetary policy that includes printing money, as well as raising money via taxes. Whether the government deletes a dollar you give them and prints another dollar vs transferring the dollar you gave them into their spending budget is super irrelevant.
It’s functionally the same and either way, your tax dollar, whether “deleted” and replaced or transferred is still your proportional allocation of funding.
This is real “I’m very smart” vibes.
dynamojoe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That has real sovcit vibes.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Sorry about all the broken veterans with TBIs. We could have invested in better healthcare infrastructure, TBI treatment research even better armor and helmets for our troopers dealing routinely with IEDs. But instead we got experimental tanks with active camo, a shitty plane which we’re phasing out and aid to Israel to perpetuate their ancient religious genocide program.
It’s just that US soldiers are poor and expendible and people with money tell us who and what is important.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And there are literal laws of nature that would prevent that from ever changing.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
I mean, potholes in my area get fixed pretty quickly, because the local government takes its job relatively seriously.