this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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We are constantly told that solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing poor and working class people in the U.S. do not exist. Meanwhile, billions taxpayer dollars are being used to fund the genocide of Palestinians.

That very money could have ended homelessness in the United States.

Money for our needs, not the U.S.-Israeli war machine!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

We barely kept from defaulting on disability payments to our own veterans at the beginning of October. But we've got all the money in the world to create more suffering. Including putting our own troops in harm's way.

FFS.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

But if they don't send them to Israel then what will the poor arms manufacturers do? Some still haven't bought a yacht for this month.