Easiest way to funnel money, in case it wasn’t obvious why all the billionaires were supporting Trump, its because hes their puppet..
lun4Wh1sp on
tbh the priorities are messed up everywhere lol
Ancient-Tax-8129 on
It was never about the money.
They only use the “money” buzz word to silence the humans with empathy. Then blow trillions on whatever.
Suntzu_AU on
You can’t have all those communist school children in the liberal states having proper health care, can you?
therealtaddymason on
Yes absolutely. Bring up how nationalized health care will actually save a shit ton of money and they’ll still demand you explain “how we gunna pay for it?!” While they bust out the abacus and expect the budget down to the exact cent. Oh but another absolutely worthless forever war in the ME that will accomplish fuck all and lol weeee numbers don’t matter.
bazinga_0 on
“War is our #1 industry!”
JoeSavinaBotero on
Universal healthcare is cheaper than our current system. We don’t have to “pay” for it, we would be saving money.
It’s time to go to war… against our health. Problem solved.
xena_lawless on
The deep, structural reason that the US is always at war (and frequently at war for Israel’s interests), is that the US isn’t really a democracy, and it never has been.
Bourgeois “democracy” is fake democracy – it is neither “representative,” nor legitimate, nor actually democratic.
Switzerland is an actual democracy, not just a pseudo-democracy like the US, so it’s a lot harder to get their population to vote for war, unless it’s absolutely necessary.
In Switzerland, citizens vote 4 times per year on major referendums and initiatives via universal mail in voting.
Citizens have both an effective veto power, and can also initiate legislation for a vote with enough signatures.
Instead of a single president with “Supreme, Unitary Executive Authority”, they have 7 heads of their executive branch in their Federal Council, with one annually rotating “president” from among those 7.
The system has high legitimacy, high citizen input/throughput, it’s not overly burdensome, and they have among the highest human development, life expectancy, and life satisfaction rankings in the world.
They still have legislators, but super rich pedophiles/oligarchs/kleptocrats, foreign nations, and transnational criminals have a harder time enslaving the entire population just by bribing/bullying a few handfuls of legislators, judges, and executives, due to the citizen veto and initiative powers.
It combines the best of both representative and direct democracy, while mitigating the downsides of each.
We can and should implement something like this, starting at the state and municipal levels in the US.
Imagine how much better the US (and the rest of the world) would be if the US was an actual democracy like Switzerland, instead of being an extremely corrupt oligarchy/pedophilocracy/kleptocracy with pseudo-democratic characteristics.
Under bourgeois “democracy”, our ruling oligarch/pedophile/kleptocrat class are always going to send the public to die and pay trillions for endless wars (for Israel) that they profit from, but if we had an actual democracy, people wouldn’t vote for war unless it was absolutely necessary.
That’s what America needs to do if we want out of this corrupt hellscape of endless war, starting at the state and municipal level, which is comparable in size to Switzerland, and working our way up from there.
We’re not a real democracy, and we never have been, and that is a major root cause of all kinds of different problems.
AwesomeBrainPowers on
I know this isn’t the point of the post, but it’s worth pointing out every time:
We pay a lot more for worse care too. That isn’t a problem though because the rich get all the money. In the US the only thing that matters is shareholder value. War makes rich people money and kills poor people same as the healthcare system.
Kitchen_Bid7046 on
obama had his own controversies too though
Vilavek on
That’s unfortunately because wars make those in power a lot of money, but caring for people only ever costs money. Fetishized profit motive culture in full swing..
PlaxicoCN on
AND Israel has universal health care.
nikejim02 on
I see no changes.
All I see is racist faces.
Brilliant_Study_5114 on
that’s definitely something you don’t see every day
velinSh4de on
lol yeah the priority setting here is wild just saying 🤷♀️
Timely_Rest_503 on
and society wonders why more people don’t want kids…
SparkyBrown on
Well who’s gonna profit off feeding people and making sure people stay healthy and off prescription medication. Geez think of those people.
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Got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor
Easiest way to funnel money, in case it wasn’t obvious why all the billionaires were supporting Trump, its because hes their puppet..
tbh the priorities are messed up everywhere lol
It was never about the money.
They only use the “money” buzz word to silence the humans with empathy. Then blow trillions on whatever.
You can’t have all those communist school children in the liberal states having proper health care, can you?
Yes absolutely. Bring up how nationalized health care will actually save a shit ton of money and they’ll still demand you explain “how we gunna pay for it?!” While they bust out the abacus and expect the budget down to the exact cent. Oh but another absolutely worthless forever war in the ME that will accomplish fuck all and lol weeee numbers don’t matter.
“War is our #1 industry!”
Universal healthcare is cheaper than our current system. We don’t have to “pay” for it, we would be saving money.
its because of th eworld leaders we have
https://preview.redd.it/2u0uozw3qxng1.jpeg?width=1443&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d07917c3eb3d5d7c0d88e8a68e7111dd15f7578
[track the Iran war cost (monetary and human)](https://iran-cost-ticker.com/)
It’s time to go to war… against our health. Problem solved.
The deep, structural reason that the US is always at war (and frequently at war for Israel’s interests), is that the US isn’t really a democracy, and it never has been.
Bourgeois “democracy” is fake democracy – it is neither “representative,” nor legitimate, nor actually democratic.
Switzerland is an actual democracy, not just a pseudo-democracy like the US, so it’s a lot harder to get their population to vote for war, unless it’s absolutely necessary.
In Switzerland, citizens vote 4 times per year on major referendums and initiatives via universal mail in voting.
Citizens have both an effective veto power, and can also initiate legislation for a vote with enough signatures.
Instead of a single president with “Supreme, Unitary Executive Authority”, they have 7 heads of their executive branch in their Federal Council, with one annually rotating “president” from among those 7.
The system has high legitimacy, high citizen input/throughput, it’s not overly burdensome, and they have among the highest human development, life expectancy, and life satisfaction rankings in the world.
They still have legislators, but super rich pedophiles/oligarchs/kleptocrats, foreign nations, and transnational criminals have a harder time enslaving the entire population just by bribing/bullying a few handfuls of legislators, judges, and executives, due to the citizen veto and initiative powers.
It combines the best of both representative and direct democracy, while mitigating the downsides of each.
We can and should implement something like this, starting at the state and municipal levels in the US.
Imagine how much better the US (and the rest of the world) would be if the US was an actual democracy like Switzerland, instead of being an extremely corrupt oligarchy/pedophilocracy/kleptocracy with pseudo-democratic characteristics.
Under bourgeois “democracy”, our ruling oligarch/pedophile/kleptocrat class are always going to send the public to die and pay trillions for endless wars (for Israel) that they profit from, but if we had an actual democracy, people wouldn’t vote for war unless it was absolutely necessary.
That’s what America needs to do if we want out of this corrupt hellscape of endless war, starting at the state and municipal level, which is comparable in size to Switzerland, and working our way up from there.
We’re not a real democracy, and we never have been, and that is a major root cause of all kinds of different problems.
I know this isn’t the point of the post, but it’s worth pointing out every time:
[Medicare for All would *save* money over the current “system” we already have](https://www.citizen.org/news/fact-check-medicare-for-all-would-save-the-u-s-trillions-public-option-would-leave-millions-uninsured-not-garner-savings/).
We pay a lot more for worse care too. That isn’t a problem though because the rich get all the money. In the US the only thing that matters is shareholder value. War makes rich people money and kills poor people same as the healthcare system.
obama had his own controversies too though
That’s unfortunately because wars make those in power a lot of money, but caring for people only ever costs money. Fetishized profit motive culture in full swing..
AND Israel has universal health care.
I see no changes.
All I see is racist faces.
that’s definitely something you don’t see every day
lol yeah the priority setting here is wild just saying 🤷♀️
and society wonders why more people don’t want kids…
Well who’s gonna profit off feeding people and making sure people stay healthy and off prescription medication. Geez think of those people.
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When the Republican Party is in power, yes.
Cui Bono.