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zelensky-pain in a predictable turn of events it looks like the fascists in Ukraine will probably not get more money because the fascists in the USA are too racist and want more border restrictions and war with China.

link to the funny WaPo article here.

  • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    You’re correct in a rhetorical way but the current political reality in the US is those houses owned by all the millionaires and billionaires and corporations will remain private property for the foreseeable future.

    The choice is demand ideological purity and demand those homes be seized and distributed to those in need.

    Or

    Postpone the ideal outcome and build homes for those in need right now.

    I hate half measures as much, perhaps more, than the next person, but if the choice is do nothing until the perfect outcome is available or implement half-ass improvements right now I’m going to opt for the improvements… as long that’s a true statement.

    That means I’m not going to blindly defend anything some dingus lib labels as “well it’s better!” but if we could divert $75B to just straight building homes and giving them to currently unhoused people, that’s objectively good.

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      It doesn’t really matter that wasn’t my point. Housing, public transportation, rural hospitals, schools, it doesn’t matter. We could have used that money to help people and spent it on bombs instead.

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        1 year ago

        I was agreeing with you. The money should go to housing or, yes, anything else on that list. Or even to rebuilding Palestine. Anything other than bombs.

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          Thanks I wasn’t really replying to you but to the thread overall, just sort of bad hexbear etiquette bleeding through lol. Because we are all terminally online it’s a good assumption that all posts will be read, not uncommon to reply 3 or 4 layers down. Sorry about that. I think you get what I’m saying though that the convo above misses the forest for the trees