• UFO@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    The USA could afford what’s being provided to Ukraine and socialized benefits. But chooses not to because of some dumb reason or another.

      • ZombieTheZombieCat@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        It’s more the hypocrisy of some people. The ones who cheer for a huge defense/foreign aid budget year after year no matter who it’s for, and then leave bitchy comments on FB about student loan forgiveness being “unfair” because it uses their tax dollars.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, yeah, they have the biggest money printer on the planet, so they could’ve socialized almost everything for their citizens if it didn’t go all into their black budgets, military, bribery and foreign meddling instead, but here they are, 32T in debt, double the debt from 10 years ago, ~100k of debt per person. If that’s not a failed state, I don’t know what is.

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        1 year ago

        If that’s not a failed state, I don’t know what is.

        You probably don’t know what is it. I mean, look at South Africa for a recent example of a failed state.

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          1 year ago

          perhaps do some research on the colonial history of South Africa and Western exploitation and read up on the definition of the term failed state and then look at some news reports regarding the US. I don’t know how some of you people keep on coming up with these cheap rebuttals that you obviously haven’t spent more than a minute of thinking on.