• blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
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    6 minutes ago

    Everyone is focusing on the taxpayer cost, which is of course exorbitant. But try instead thinking about how many private jets the weapon manufacturers and politicians in their pocket are getting out of it.

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    11 minutes ago

    How much money have Netanjahu and Trump contributed to pay for their personal folly?

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    3 hours ago

    Remember this number when they say they can’t afford any social programs …

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    3 hours ago

    Taxpayers: “$37.5b 😵‍💫”
    Heggy: “$37.5b so far!”

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        Yes, actually. To the villainous scum we call our leaders, it is worth it.

        They’ve been seeding the Middle East with vengeful fury for the last 40+ years. Not only did we ensure a 100% chance of some sort of counter-offensive or rebellion to jumpstart the next war, but we’ve made doubly sure that they will echo war after war after war forever as new Muslim teens are raised and given a guiding finger at the US for all of life’s troubles, not that they’re entirely wrong.

        So up up up goes defense spending and up up up goes the war bonds and up up up goes the petrol, forever. This is how the US war machine works.

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        4 hours ago

        [This ] cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives to create

        I guess all the data centers eating your local water supply are better because…smart machine thinks good? What the fuck is this timeline

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          I’m truly clueless what you’re saying. Smart machine? You do understand I was being sarcastic…?

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      Yeah but it also raised prices around the world, including in the US, and this money could have gone to its inhabitants instead, so in reality it has costed the American tax payer and many of its companies much more. Also, he’s a lying piece of shit so who knows what it actually costs.