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.
Why does Israel need aid? To help them invade someone more?
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.
The way your 'y’s alling on this post made my day! (mildly)
That doesn’t make any sense, considering support for Israel was the main cause behind the 9/11 attacks.
Seems like support for Israel is good for one nation: Israel.
The cause of 9/11 is US influence in the land of Mecca.
Weird way to spell “They are white just like us” but ok ig
They need the moneys to genocide harder, better, faster, stronger.
Wowowow, keep Daft Punk out of this
But how can we when the Israeli apartheid regime is trying to take their shitshow around the world around the WORld?
Poor Israel can barely afford to murder children anymore.
If you’re an American, the hypocrisy is palpable
Does being a citizen of a country make you responsible for the actions of its government? Especially, not for people whose votes almost never result in the candidate of their choice being elected, which for me is from local elections all the way up to national. I did vote for several local school board members who won, two elections ago, so I’ll accept some responsibility for what they’ve done as 3 out of 7 voting members of that board.
No. It’s all your fault for not campaigning harder. Go sit in the corner and blame yourself. Never question the current election process.
I wouldn’t set foot in that country.
Fuck russia, fuck israel.
And fuck the house.
“Fuck the House” would be a good name for a casino heist movie if movies could have ‘fuck’ in the title.
Movies can have a little bit of fuck in the title, as a treat.
Mum: We have fuck at home
Home: Heck
I’m adding Fuck Off! Images of Finland to my watch list.
That DOES sound very romantic! 😆
American Fiction dragged a little at times, but the decision to name his book “Fuck” was brilliant.
And my axe!
No! Wait! (Lengthy pause)
Use the axe to fuck the house, Israel AND the Orcs! Much better plan.
In the middle of the street.
Should be 86.8 bil to Ukraine and 0 to the terrorist organisation of Isreal
“Can’t” afford universal healthcare, and “can’t” afford student debt relief, but we sure can magic up money for killing!
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.
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.
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.
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.
TikTok is cancer regardless of who owns it.
And at the same time if you preach so much free market economics then you should just learn to live with it and don’t buy the product if you don’t like it
Please show me an example where I
preach so much free market economics
(If you don’t find one it’s because I never did.)
Anything from China is anything but free market. Chinese companies are still owned by the state who practice state capitalism.
Don’t fall for the straw man.
It’s not a strawman, commie.
They meant the argument you were responding to, the obvious strawman, and not what you said.
Free market for me but not for thee.
Yes, there is a trade war.
Don’t be naive about NSA and US propaganda/surveillance.
There doesn’t need to have NSA propaganda when China themselves say they are state capitalists and allow billionaires to flourish.
That’s not true at all. China has state owned businesses and private owned businesses. You think the Boeing and Microsoft locations in China are owned by the CCP?
If you’re being pedantic, you’re right, but Chinese companies are still Chinese state-owned-- which Tiktok is.
that is bs with regard to the facts.
Cry about it. I can taste your tears from here.
No. There’s privately owned industry in China.
Of course you’d lie.
Part of maintaining a free market is regulations that punish anti-competitive behaviour.
Sucks for the rich, but I, the average consumer do not care about what some rich guy’s stocks are doing. I will always go for the cheaper, more accessible, better product.
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.
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.
I wonder if Orange Julius Caesar will be getting an aggrieved call from Pootin…
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.
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.
