• @SupraMario
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    207 days ago

    60 billion is a drop in the bucket, the majority of which isn’t cash, it’s equipment that’s been sitting and is no longer being used. That 60 billion is put back into our own economy because it means jobs are being made to replace said equipment. It’s a win win for both sides. We’re also the richest country on the planet, we have plenty to do what we need to here at home, but it’s not getting done because of Ukraine, it’s not getting done because we have politicians who are beholden to the rich oligarchs here.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      16 days ago

      That 60 billion is put back into our own economy because it means jobs are being made to replace said equipment.

      Unironically arguing that our bloated military industrial complex is a good thing because trickle down theory. Centrists are Reaganites, one and all.

      We’re also the richest country on the planet, we have plenty to do what we need to here at home,

      And we have chosen not to.

      it’s not getting done because we have politicians who are beholden to the rich oligarchs here.

      But if we keep the oligarchs happy, it’ll totally trickle down like daddy Reagan said.

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      -127 days ago

      That kinda supports my argument though. It’s not helping American citizens it’s helping American oligarchs.

      • @[email protected]
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        127 days ago

        No, Ukraine’s survival is not good for American oligarchs and nowhere in the comment you’re responding to was that even vaguely implied

        • @[email protected]
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          -37 days ago

          Sinking Ukraine in endless debt that they default on so it will be swept up by the oligarchy is good for American oligarchs.

          • @[email protected]
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            7 days ago

            Yes, we should let them be swept up by Russia, which has a far worse corruption and oligarchy problem, instead.

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        77 days ago

        It’s not that different from Roosevelt’s WPA but with the rich getting a cut off the top for their continued support.

      • @SupraMario
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        67 days ago

        The fuck? Nothing I said was even remotely in support of your argument. What part of us giving our old equipment to Ukraine, which in turn helps support jobs here did you not get?

      • @_chris
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        -17 days ago

        American leaders aren’t in it for the citizens any longer.