64 pointsby johnbarron7 hours ago3 comments
  • ratg13an hour ago
    Sadly this is just as much money as was stolen from taxpayers and transferred to "The Board of Peace"
  • testing223215 hours ago
    Never enough money for healthcare , childcare or school lunches, but always plenty of money for foreign wars.

    Why Americans are not rioting in the streets is beyond me.

    • bko2 hours ago
      I don't know, if you look at public health consumption expenditures per capita, current prices, current PPPs, 2015-2024, US is up there. It's mostly medicaid and medicare. You might not like how the money is being spent but the idea that US doesn't spend money on these things compared to other Western countries is just not true.

      Same with education

      > In 2019, the United States spent $15,500 per full-time-equivalent (FTE) student on elementary and secondary education, which was 38 percent higher than the average of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries of $11,300 (in constant 2021 U.S. dollars). At the postsecondary level, the United States spent $37,400 per FTE student, which was more than double the average of OECD countries ($18,400; in constant 2021 U.S. dollars).

      I get that it's cool to say US doesn't spend on these kinds of things, but it's just not true. It's a rich country

      https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

      https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...

      • mothballedan hour ago
        I think tech workers just often don't realize nearly half of the country is eligible for either Medicare or Medicaid and that we're just part of the class of sub-human subjects who get taxed into oblivion for transfer payments for almost half of everyone else but ourselves and on top of that have to pay (directly on indirectly through employment) for sky-high insurance rates that the medicare demographic disproportionately voted for policies that imposed such high rates on us.
        • ta900014 minutes ago
          And then they spit on us anyway. Part of me wants to just CoastFI and take a lower paying job in spite.
    • simondanerd4 hours ago
      Anything to keep ourselves comfortable. That's one of the reasons I see that we have representatives - so the population at large doesn't have to bear the burden of doing dirty work.

      We then in the same breath complain about government but put forth no effort to fix it.

      • expedition323 hours ago
        Is US Congress actually doing anything or do they just stand by and let Trump do whatever he likes?

        My own country's parliament is having more debates about the Iranian war and we're just sending one warship to Cyprus!

        • tartuffe782 hours ago
          Trump has mastered the bully pulpit and his steadfast popularity with his base to threaten any Republican who gets out of line by endorsing a primary challenger. This has been effective in replacing anyone who challenges him, and scaring the rest into line.
    • lm284692 hours ago
      75% of them are overweight or obese, 30% functionally illiterate. They have neither the physical, cognitive or cultural capabilities to do what's needed
    • MisterTea43 minutes ago
      > Why Americans are not rioting in the streets is beyond me.

      I'm really am tired of reading this nonsensical hyperbolic line. No one is hurting enough to care to take to the streets. You know this, I know this, we all know this. Please stop repeating it.

    • casey238 minutes ago
      It sounds like you want some Americans to go out and break shit til they get their way? That's not how 1st world countries operate.
    • add-sub-mul-div4 hours ago
      > Why Americans are not rioting in the streets is beyond me.

      That's not entirely fair. The January 6 rioters acted because they knew how bad for the country it would be if the wrong candidate got into office and started a war.

      • mandeepj3 hours ago
        "The January 6 rioters acted because they knew how bad for the country it would be if the wrong candidate got into office and started a war."

        I don't think that's what they were told when they were given marching orders to fight like hell

        • vablings3 hours ago
          They were told that the election was stolen and the system was rigged. Under the pretense that you were told no more fair and free elections would you not go do exactly what the j6ers did, I think you would be foolish to say no.

          The only core issue is that everything that was said that day was a whole a total lie and the responsibility hangs with the liars

    • DoctorOetker4 hours ago
      the bombing of the girls school should never have happened and is inexcusable, but otherwise increasing the future safety by annihilating the military structure of an aspiring nuclear power for say $50B / 250M inhabitants = $200 per person, sounds like a steal

      if only this would have been done before and thus instead of a genocide in Gaza!

      • tredre33 hours ago
        > but otherwise increasing the future safety by annihilating the military structure of an aspiring nuclear power for say

        The problem is that there's always a very convenient aspiring nuclear power to hit. In hindsight they rarely never were a real threats (Iraq, Cuba). And what became real threats have historically been downplayed by the american government (North Korea).

        • andriy_koval3 hours ago
          Iran is real threat to oil circulation in that region, they applied this tactics many times before. Now imagine if we come to current situation 5 years later when Iran has missiles with nuclear warheads?
          • lm284692 hours ago
            > they applied this tactics many times before

            Feel free to list the details about when, how and why it happened before ;) interestingly none of these scenario would even have happened if they had nukes to begin with, how weird

      • csb62 hours ago
        Attacking Iran has made the entire region less safe and so far there is no evidence Iran has been deterred. They continue to successfully hit targets with missiles and drones, and they have expanded operations to successfully close the Strait of Hormuz. Seems like it would have been a lot cheaper to not attack Iran and instead to rein in Israel, an existing nuclear power that is the primary destabilizing force in the Middle East.
      • fooblaster4 hours ago
        This thing is far from over. Iran will indefinitely be able to block the straight. The us will be stuck in this defensive position for months, until it pulls out and effectively loses the war.

        It's clear we are going to lose, because we cannot topple the regime without putting troops on the ground, which we will never do. Setting that as a war aim doomed this whole effort from the start.

        • throwaway875433 hours ago
          Ground invasion would literally be Vietnam again. And don't say they'll never do it. Reports from classified briefings indicate a draft is seriously being considered.
          • tartuffe782 hours ago
            I'm not surprised they would consider it, but it seems hilariously stupid. Even as cynical as I am about politics in this country this will never fly with most of Trump's supporters.
            • bamboozledan hour ago
              We’ve heard this before…
              • tartuffe78an hour ago
                This isn't targeting immigrants or Democrats though, unless they try to only draft Democrats it's going to be them, their sons, their brothers and husbands getting told they have to go die.
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      • lm284692 hours ago
        The US had a joint nuclear program with Iran for decades... After the revolution they didn't even pursue nuclear weapons until they understood it was the only thing you can get to protect yourself from Israel and American bullying.

        > before and thus instead of a genocide in Gaza!

        Lmao yeah OK buddy, your dollars are financing both, and many more, atrocities

      • testing223212 hours ago
        Should America do this to every aspiring nuclear nation? All the time?
        • tartuffe782 hours ago
          Yes bombing schools, cities, and countries into broken states ruled by warring factions is the only way to achieve peace.
  • 0ckpuppet4 hours ago
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    • lawn3 hours ago
      The imagined billions you mean?