• takeda@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This was included in a funding bill. If that wouldn’t pass the government would shut down. You can blame Republicans for those extra things added.

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      7 months ago

      Then the government should’ve fucking shut down. Not even close to an excuse for voting to fund genocide and I’m utterly baffled as to how you could possibly make such an argument.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve been hearing this excuse for like a decade now.

      Shutting down the government to refuse weapon sales to Israel would be a good thing, goddammit. I’d feel that maybe there’s a shred of humanity left in those ghouls if they had.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, let’s hurt others for your own protest. Maybe you should do your own hunger strike?

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          7 months ago

          Us privileged asses in the US will suffer exponentially less harm, especially in the long term, than those of the tens of thousands we’re helping fund the slaughter of.

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      7 months ago

      People are missing the forest for the trees but you are right.

      If Republicans force this through on every bill then at some point it would have to pass. You can’t just shut down the US government indefinitely in the real world.