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Theresa's avatar

This is fantastic. The USA has as much $$$ as it wants to have.

We don’t want to pull people out of poverty. We want people to go to prison. There are so many crimes tied to poverty, so that people go to prison. So we have slave labor. People who make $.17 an hour. And if you refuse to work, you get put in solitary confinement. For an unknown period of time. That’s why our government won’t pull people out of poverty. Slavery.

What our country was founded on. Flourishing centuries later.

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

Poverty is definitely a political choice. the expanded child tax credit slashed childhood poverty by millions; hugely successful program. Republicans (and Manchin) killed it, basically on the grounds that it was too successful (Manchin said he was worried that recipients were paying for drugs with it or were being encouraged to be lazy, despite the fact that there was no evidence of that, and in fact evidence that people were more able to work on the program since they coudl afford transportation/child care.)

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DR Darke's avatar

::Manchin said he was worried that recipients were paying for drugs with it or were being encouraged to be lazy::

THIS is the kind of Democrat that is the reason I refuse to be a Democrat.

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

he's not even a democrat! switched to independent...and of course is leaving the senate.

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DR Darke's avatar

He only switched parties when he decided not to run again as a Democrat, just like ANOTHER "Democrat" who is why I refuse to be one, the late unlamented Joe LIE-berman.

Between them, Kyrsten Sinema and my *bête noire* Hillary Rodham Clinton? I'm happy staying as Independent as Bernie Sanders....

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mermcoelho's avatar

The military aid to Israel is maybe the one thing that will keep JB from being a truly great and visionary President in our history books.

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Robert Spottswood, M.A.'s avatar

Well… During Clarence Thomas’s senate confirmation hearings, Biden went out of his way to smear the woman who reported Thomas’s sexual harassment of her

Easy to see Biden with rose colored glasses at this point in history, but similar to Jefferson’s several children with a woman he owned as a chattel slave, we don’t need to forget the ugly simply in light of the more visible good.

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Theresa's avatar

An unpopular opinion about Gaza.

Americans only care cause the Palestinians are white. And, the USA is actively supplying weapons to Israel to kill the Palestinians.

Americans haven’t cared about children and babies and women dying Yemen, the Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Ethiopia, etc. Americans don’t care about Black lives. They also don’t care if babies die due to America’s inaction.

Either way- America is immoral — and has been since the genocide of the Indigenous Americans, who now live in abject poverty, with no running water or electricity.

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

Palestinians aren't white (I mean, whiteness is a moving target, but Palestinians are intensely racialized in both the US and Israel.)

I think there are a range of reasons as to why the US public is more focused on Israel, but I think the two main ones are:

1. US support for Israel makes people feel implicated (and I think rightly so,) and

2. US liberal identity as virtuous/egalitarian since WW II at least has been linked to inclusion of Jewish people/Jewish rights in complicated ways,

3. US evangelical Christian right is hyperfocused on Israel because of millenarian prophecies and Islamophobia

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

three! three main ones...

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DR Darke's avatar

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!!

https://youtu.be/QqreRufrkxM?si=RNVZ7l-iT6zWgk49

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babaganusz's avatar

"... such diverse elements as ..."

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Robert Spottswood, M.A.'s avatar

That is a good point.

I think it frames what appears to me to be Israel’s copying the founding narrative of our own nation.

Stealing land for expansion and gaining free wealth. In our case, it was through slavery, and in Israel’s case it is through, massive annual subsidies from the US about which we also seem helpless to stop.

It’s hard to describe ourselves as free if we can’t stop our country from funding genocide.

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DR Darke's avatar

::It’s a lie. And lies do not help the Palestinian cause. They simply make you look like a liar who can be dismissed.::

Well, THERE's a life lesson Meemaw forgot to give J.D. Vance!

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