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Israel has enslaved the US taxpayer to their genocidal stormtroopers. The lines are drawn.
Enslaved? Afaik the US government has willingly funded Israel as part of their strategy for years.
And not only are you getting that twisted, you're also trivializing slavery while villifying a group for something they did not do.
I have no stake in this war, but I do want to point out that your choice of words is very inaccurate and inappropriate.
bro, do you know how much of the US govt is jewish and/or zionist?
if you say anything criticizing them, AIPAC will donate tons of money to your opponent.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1717700125512913232
The Senate just UNANIMOUSLY adopted a resolution condemning pro-Palestine student protesters as "in solidarity with Hamas" and anti-semitic. The resolution calls to "fully and completely support Israel" in its war on Gaza
Everyone from Bernie Sanders to Rand Paul voted for this
This kind of thinking makes you morally obligated to stop paying taxes (I'm for it)
A more constructive conclusion would be to actually improve things, by not eliminating taxes but spending them differently.
Won't happen unless immediate and immense pressure is applied to politicians. Such as threatening their livelihood by not paying taxes (their paycheck)
Or you know, violence. It's easy to beg for change, but without action they are under no obligation to do anything.
I don't disagree :) The initial comment just didn't outline that.
I think a good first step would be an Aus style bill that breaks down how your tax dollars got spent by the share of the budget that went to whatever we spent money on.
Actually seeing how much money went to foreign aid or debt repayments or MIC contracts would at least start an informed discourse on how are taxes get spent
If that's what it takes
There I was, thinking people on Lemmy might me smarter than on Reddit... Regarding most comments, not just yours.
If anything Lemmy is even worse. At least on Reddit you could find niche subs where uninformed or objectively stupid comments would be ruthlessly downvoted and it was only the big subs where one would encounter the idiot masses with their mob mentality.
Lemmy doesn't have any niche subs like that, at least not yet, or not that I'm aware of. Accordingly, the signal to noise ratio here sucks. The gibbering idiot masses almost entirely drown out the few intelligent, well-informed and thoughtful comments there are.