17 points

Well then stop paying for it homeslice

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He literally is beholden to the defense contractors. Seems like all they care about is selling bombs, so we’re stuck. Israel is our 51st state.

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Shit, I’m glad I’m not literally beholden to my own contractor. “You need to build a second floor” “But I don’t want a second floor. Can we just go ahead with the bathroom?” “NO! AND YOU’RE GETTING AN ELEVATOR.”

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3 points

Fucking eh

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63 points

Here, take these bombs.

WHOA WTF MAN, I DIDN’T SAY USE THEM!!

Also here, have some more bombs.

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Those are for defense only! It says so right on the box! \s

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“The bombs are purely for decoration, not destruction. But they’re yours now, so… do whatever you want with them, we don’t care.”

-United States, sometime after the settler colony of Israel was formed

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36 points

Urges de-escalation and then gives them literally $8,000,000,000 to continue the genocide.

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If only he had some way of reducing the amount of bombing.

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Yeah, but what if someone also set a precedent that if you’re the victim of an admittedly awful terror attack, you can spend the next 20 years killing anyone you want.

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While we’re at it, Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine opened up akin to the shock and awe campaign in 2003 Iraq.

Of course it does not justify the invasion, but the world still remembers WMD’s that weren’t found. American leadership didint think those through too well.

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It’s insane that a country whose economy is 1/8th that of California alone and whose population is 35x smaller has the US by the balls in this way.

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For some context, California has the fourth or fifth largest economy in the world when compared to nations.

So seems a bit misleading to compare it to that particular state. Unless you were doing it for effect

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Israel has a similar population and GDP to Michigan (and a similar land area to New Hampshire).

Despite being a swing state, Michigan has nowhere near as much influence over US national policy.

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For sure, though I could use 14 States as examples that are larger. Not even counting all the foreign aid we give to Israel in the first place — it’s just absurd we have to kiss their ass so much partly because of AIPAC.

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Any country would if they had the US Military Industrial complex backing them up.

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Between Israel militarily, Russia politically, and China economically, it’s a wonder we are still even asked to vote.

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