The House on Saturday passed a $95 billion aid package that includes two long-awaited bills with $60.8 billion of Ukraine aid and $26 billion in aid to Israel.

The Ukraine bill, which passed with 311 votes in favor, 112 votes against, and one present, will now head to the Senate alongside the Israel aid bill and two others — one with aid for Taiwan and another that forces Tiktok’s parent company to sell it.

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      The realpolitik answer is that they’re the only country in the region with highly functioning western-style market economy. That is valuable to other functioning western style market economies. Its a system trying to help itself propagate.

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    “Can’t” afford universal healthcare, and “can’t” afford student debt relief, but we sure can magic up money for killing!

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      The US government spends more per capita in healthcare than any country with universal healthcare and then a big chunk of the population also pays for private health insurance over that.

      It’s not about not being able to afford it, it would even be cheaper.

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        That’s just the efficiency of the free market. It’s certainly efficient at something, just not delivering quality health care or keeping costs down.

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        That’s why I put can’t in quotes. We obviously can (because, as you pointed out, we already do) but there’s a minority of Americans wielding outsized amounts of power keeping it from happening.

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      Yes, because killing Russian military saves lives. Russia is shelling cities in Ukraine, killing civilians. Your problems are valid, but are nothing compared to getting killed in your sleep by a Russian rocket

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    and another that forces Tiktok’s parent company to sell it.

    Capitalists never play fair, lol.

    Can’t wait to see some stupid western company take the place of tiktok then all the retards complaining about tiktok suddenly shutting up.

    They don’t realize there’s a trade war going on and they’re just useful idiots in it.

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      Nah. I don’t think Bytedance sells. The big enchilada is the source code and that’s not getting sold because there’s 6 Billion more people they can get on the app.

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      There are several right-wing groups eager to buy it, which is 100% why they’re going after it.

      Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook. They’re going to control all of it soon.

      Din they’ll be requiring expensive identity verification for online accounts to make the fediverse financially unsustainable.

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    Ahead of the vote, former President Donald Trump issued a confusing statement that sympathized with both the pro- and anti-Ukraine aid factions of the GOP without taking a clear position.

    very much. more and more.

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    I’m against one of those. And no, it’s not the TikTok ban.

    EDIT: Slava Ukrayini, heroyam slava! Hopefully that should make things less ambiguous.