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[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

The water situation in Flint to could be fixed for a fraction of the new money that Biden wants to give Israel or Ukraine.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're right. But in order to maintain its dying global hegemony, Amerikkka (the imperialist, settler-colonial, fascist, capitalist government) must prevent Russia from selling natural gas to the EU and must use Israel as a forward operating base to control the energy industries of the MENA countries. Otherwise dollar hegemony will end and then it won't be cheap to fix domestic problems anymore. So Amerikkkan "prosperity" is tied to American imperialism, and more and more of the discretionary and non-discretionary budget must be spent on maintaining that imperialism. The country is in a death spiral and the only way out is revolution. There's no redirecting the blood money to fixing the domestic wounds, because the value of the blood money itself is tied to the fact that it's used to bomb people instead of healing domestic wounds.

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