• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    Short article but still hard to get through. The banal cruelty and pointlessness of all this…

    It’s roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can’t we just do that instead?

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      It’s 2 years of the entire USAID budget that kept 100,000s of people alive and healthy. It’s 4 times the amount of money the President want from the taxpayers so he can “give it to charity.”

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      It’s roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can’t we just do that instead?

      😔 Because cruelty is the point.

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      average priced homes yes but things like small sized apartments could likely be built for like 100k each, so 400k homes, enough to house about half of the us homeless population