#US war spending

[workersolidarity]

🇺🇸 🚨 THE US FOREIGN AID AND DEFENSE SPENDING RACKET EXPLAINED IN THREE GRAPHS

In three graphs, why the United States is clearly in extreme, rapid decline, and the evidence for why ordinary Americans will pay the price for the decades of perpetual-war policies in their own standard of living.

There's a reason why the minimum wage hasn't been raised since 2009. Why there's no money for schools, why our hospitals and doctors are a mess, why theres homeless people on every city's streets, including the mentally ill, the drug addicted, and veterans, no money to deal with out of control crime in American cities, the waves of constant immigration meant to destroy your wages... There's only ever money for more federal law enforcement, more war, more "foreign aid" aka corruption rackets for US vassal states.

During the very years we watched this decline take place, spending on foreign aid and defense spending have gone constantly upwards while wages declined and income Inequality skyrocketed.

The evidence for the betrayal of the American people by their corrupt elite is everywhere, and the debt we will be saddled with for generations is unimaginably large: $34.209 trillion at the time of writing this.

Every American will suffer the consequences for the imperialism of their elites, and in fact already are as displayed clearly by the flattening of US wage growth simultaneously alongside the increase in foreign aid and defense spending.

It's elites taking money out of your pocket, out of your retirement, your children's college education, your family's healthcare, your wages, your life, and putting it into the same super wealthy, billionaire elites who've wanted to kill social security and Medicare and use the US Military to enforce a system of control, impoverishment and censorship on all of us across the world. Or fund genocides, you know, whatever's profitable. 🇵🇸

It is nothing more than an old fashioned racket, an upward transfer of wealth, and it always has been.

@WorkerSolidartyNews

[captain-casual]

Next up: Biden continues to be a crusty piece of shit who ignores his voters

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[inquisitor-apologist]

Thinking about how, at the end of the day, at the fatal moment, the sunset of the Republic, it wasn’t Yoda, or Obi-Wan, or even the Chosen One himself standing in the way of Palpatine. It was Mace Windu.

Mace Windu, the inventor of Vaapad and Master of Form VII, the Jedi's strongest duelist, the only person to ever defeat Palpatine in combat. Mace Windu, Master of the Jedi Council and the youngest Master ever appointed to it, the revered leader of the Order. Mace Windu, who forgave even those who tried to kill him, who risked his life over and over again for his troops, who, after 3 years of desperate war, tried to negotiate with battle droids. Mace Windu, who knew the clones were created by the Sith and chose to trust them, who saw every Shatterpoint in the Republic, and loved it still, and fought for it until his last breath, until he was betrayed by Anakin, who he believed in and trusted despite everything.

Mace Windu, High General and hero of the Republic, the embodiment of the Light, the last and greatest champion of the Order, the best Jedi to ever live.

[skullinacowboyhat]

Nuri’s visual dictionary entry [idea inspired by @sovonight]

[hipwell]

CT-9904 – Crosshair

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Hunter Tech Wrecker Echo Omega

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

me, a future child psychologist, watching the bad batch:

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

[bored-cat-child]

~ SUNSHINE ~

[DeviantArt]

[bishoptheboy]

NARUTO Shinobi days: Coming home to a surprise guest (?) Part 4

A special day for a special person 0723...

Sasuke reading and staying in bed in the lazy morning. Naruto sleeping in and cuddling with him tightly by instinct. Sasuke probably laughs it off, thinking about the years Naruto has spent looking for him, catching up to him, desperate to have him back. Now, here he is, still holding him tightly. They are right though, old habits die hard.

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<I am still basing on blank period era and I envision Sasuke would bring scrolls with him to read (those he gathered during his journey or even those he made himself). So he is definitely an early riser. And Naruto def will sleep in lol (but in my HC Naruto tends to sleep in whenever Sasuke is at home).

There is a question in twitter about how will Sasuke spend his birthday. This is my answer. People are already celebrating his birthday but my time is a day late.

Happy birthday Sasuke! 🍅❤️>

[4catsinacult]

Every so often I think about how perfect my city would be for an episode Supernatural. This place haunted as fuck.

[workersolidarity]

🇮🇱 📈💶🏦 🚨

ISRAELI OCCUPATION'S GENOCIDE IN GAZA PUSHES UP DEFENSE SPENDING BY 24%

A report published this month by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows the Israeli occupation's defense spending is up 24% for 2023, to a massive $27.5 billion. This for an entity with a GDP of just $531 billion.

Israeli defense spending was second in the region only to Saudi Arabia with its far larger $2.3 trillion GDP, with a defense spending of $75.8 billion and change in defense spending of just 4.3% in 2023.

The United States, for its own part, had a change in 2023 of 2.3%, to an astounding $916 Billion.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[msnihilist]

Sorry, but Phineas and Ferb going to college as adults is soooo fake. 1) What the fuck is college gonna teach them? 2) They're both WAY too restless to study for four years or more for ONE degree. They spent a single afternoon building to the MOON. FOUR YEARS might as well be an ETERNITY. Spending that in SCHOOL?? WASTE OF TIME.

[normalbrothers]

tommy loves horses of course, and there's a lot going on there (re trauma), but he has a pretty utilitarian view on them most of the time; it's not as much of an affectionate relationship to the animals as i think fandom seems to believe. there's also rather a greater symbolic meaning in general to him than bonding himself emotionally to a single horse, the way it tends to be with most horsey narratives

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

In One Minute War the DC speedsters find themselves fighting an army of speedster aliens who intend to take over the world in seconds. With no one else fast enough to even recognize the war, let alone help out, it's up to one family to save the day. The fate of the world hangs in the balance as the Flash family finds themselves outgunned, outnumbered and possibly outmatched.

They are humanity's last hope for survival. Godspeed speedsters 🫡

[mo-ok]

Guilt: feelings of deserving blame especially for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy

[demo-ness]

it's extremely funny to sit down with Anduin and Faerin kind of obviously Hitting It Off(TM), and just... leaning over to Anduin and going "Hey, have you talked to Wrathion lately? 😉" like a disapproving mom who still prefers your ex