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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The money spent on this would not have been spent on giving clean water to people thousands of miles away

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does this really make it any less worthy of criticism, though...?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

We would rather have the children starve to death than being called a communist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It was privately funded, this money would not have gone to school lunches

[–] brbposting 9 points 5 months ago

Is that where guillotines come in?

[–] nikita 5 points 5 months ago

Maybe it would’ve if governments taxed them properly and spent that money to save the planet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t flint still not have clean water?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Those are two different states, plus flint does have clean water now (although the effects of contamination and lead exposure still remain in people who grew up drinking it)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So we might a well build some shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hey, it's just $2,300,000,000

Can't even feed a packed homeless shelter for that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯