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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] MooseBoys 140 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Accurate except for the “instead” part. Road maintenance comes from local taxes, whereas military aid comes from federal taxes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Sorry about all the broken veterans with TBIs. We could have invested in better healthcare infrastructure, TBI treatment research even better armor and helmets for our troopers dealing routinely with IEDs. But instead we got experimental tanks with active camo, a shitty plane which we're phasing out and aid to Israel to perpetuate their ancient religious genocide program.

It's just that US soldiers are poor and expendible and people with money tell us who and what is important.

[–] surewhynotlem 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And there are literal laws of nature that would prevent that from ever changing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, potholes in my area get fixed pretty quickly, because the local government takes its job relatively seriously.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It’d be way more effective if the road pictured wasn’t absolutely perfect and pothole free

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[–] inclementimmigrant 72 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Please, not fixing potholes have been around longer than the current Palestinian/Israeli and also a completely stupid reduction of the complexity of this whole fucked up situation.

[–] smooth_tea 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There's nothing complex about it. Israel imprisons an entire people and every time the UN tries to do something about it the US vetoes it.

The "it's complex" excuse is used to have people look the other way by turning it into a hopeless situation.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Love the false equivalence. Your city taxes can't fix the potholes because your federal taxes pay for a military.

[–] hark 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those federal taxes cannot be allocated to state funds which cannot then be allocated to city funds to maintain roads?

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[–] FlashMobOfOne 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

We send $5,000,000,000 in outright charity to Israel, not including what our legislators are about to fork over as soon as they get their stock portfolios situated in the best ways to profit from it.

That's $100,000,000 per state that could be used to fix potholes or help Americans in other ways, but we're silly geese who 100% support neglecting our own people in favor of war, so we're getting what we voted for.

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[–] Dewded 33 points 1 year ago

Isn't this a photoshop? Boring Dystopia is a lot more poignant when the content it shows has some reality to it.

While the point the image is trying to make does have quite a bit of reality behind it, the shopping is to its detriment.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

All children in Gaza are terriosts! Or potential terriosts! Isreal NEEDS to bomb ambulances, hospitals and water wells because that is where all the terriosts are! ya see?Any amount of infrastructure supports terriosism! Bombing is a nessecity!

It's outright ghoulish.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Anyone who runs is Viet Cong. Anyone who stands still is well disciplined Viet Cong."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

How can you shoot women and children?!?!

Easy, you just don't lead them as much

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Well, it‘s actually true that Hamas uses civil infrastructure and civilians as shields, you can’t deny that. Of course that doesn‘t mean that Israel can just bomb everything.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

its a straw man, but only just, people more or less say this through implications when you hear "What else do you expect Israel to do"

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Just put the babies in the potholes.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Sweet Photoshop champ.

[–] Son_of_dad 12 points 1 year ago (13 children)

The u.s destroyed half my country, killed tons of my people, bought up the wreckage and now owns us. But none of you gave a shit, cause the news didn't tell you to care

[–] themeatbridge 147 points 1 year ago

Yeah that doesn't really narrow it down.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

You poor soul, you must be a citizen of a nation on planet earth.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's true for a lot of the states, let alone other extant sovereign nations.

[–] bassomitron 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] droans 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to his comment history, the US.

[–] WhiteHawk 21 points 1 year ago

Sounds about right

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

How are we supposed to know if the news doesn't tell us?

[–] Surp 20 points 1 year ago

What country

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