$2 Billion Per Day Spent by US on Iran War Could Have Saved 87 Million Lives, Says UN Humanitarian Chief (www.commondreams.org)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 18:24
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JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz on 21 Apr 18:36 next collapse

But where’s the profit in that? /s

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social on 21 Apr 21:07 next collapse

Why the /s?

Signtist@bookwyr.me on 21 Apr 22:20 collapse

Exactly. All these arguments about how “the money would be more useful elsewhere” only serve to confuse people into thinking the government is just making uninformed financial decisions. This isn’t a mistake, they’re doing everything on purpose to make as much money for themselves as they can, and they love how we’re giving them the free out of being able to claim they were just dumb. Everyone who would be convinced that this regime needs to be toppled already believes it; there’s nobody left to be swayed, only confused about the true danger of their enemy.

Typhoon@lemmy.ca on 21 Apr 18:53 next collapse

They’re trying to kill brown people not save them!

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 18:56 next collapse

A system’s purpose is what it does.

This system appears to be functioning exactly as intended.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 21 Apr 19:06 collapse

Can’t be an immigrant if you don’t exist.

unitedwithme@lemmy.today on 21 Apr 20:57 next collapse

More war means less working class lives to pay wages to, which in turn means they can take even more from us!!

Naich@piefed.world on 21 Apr 22:23 next collapse

There’s always money for war. The arms business model is basically planned obsolescence taken to the extreme. As soon as you use their product, you have to buy more. With that scheme, what sort of self respecting greedy psychopathic monster wouldn’t want to blow everything up to rake in the money for themselves and their mates?

deacon@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 01:11 next collapse

Yeah but could we have the DOW flirting with 49,000?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 04:41 collapse

The dow doesn’t put out. 49k should wait for a better index

P1nkman@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 04:58 next collapse

I how Trump swallows something wrong, which they cannot get out with the Heimlich, and that he’s slowly dying, being shit scared, lying on the floor. The final piece: he’ll piss and shit himself, and it’d be public for the entire world to see.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 22 Apr 07:27 collapse

he also has a very awkward stance due to wearing lifts and a girdle.

nosuchanon@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 06:52 next collapse

You still haven’t figured it out. They don’t want to save anyone. Depopulation of undesirables is an intended side effect of war in addition to draining social programs and education to fund wars and weapons.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 07:25 collapse

… what made him think the US government cares about the lives of people facing war and poverty? The official position of the US Government these days is basically that anyone not rich enough to bribe officials might as well not exist.