this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
1219 points (100.0% liked)

Political Memes

7607 readers
3053 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I hate how “anti-war” has been hijacked by these people to mean, let imperialist countries invade whoever they want with no consequences. (in the case of tankies, any imperialist country that isn’t in NATO).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I don't care about Ukraine. I don't want my money going into military to support a country that has universal health care while I still do t have universal health care.

Fund universal healthcare, not Ukraine or Israel.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

UHC is cheaper than the current US healthcare system. You can literally have both.

Funding for Ukraine isn't holding up UHC. Bad politicians are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone needs to force their hand, if you just give them what they want anyways, there is no reason for them to do anything for u

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not sure punishing Ukrainians who are being raped and murdered in their own homes forces their hand in any way whatsoever. Seems like the least efficient way to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

See the problem is that Biden could have easily negotiated some deal on Ukraine. That then doesn't require any resources spent on it. But because he has some shady buseness interests there - they used state resources to fight for his fucking personal business interests.
That's the problem.

Don't for a second think america wants to help someone. We dont help. We don't even give healthcare to own citizens , what do u think we would do to others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Republicans spent significant efforts trying to prove shady business interests of the Bidens in Ukraine and never managed to find jack shit that ever seemed improper.

The US acts in its own interests. Countering Russian imperialism is part of that. They're not helping Ukraine out of pure good will, sure, but in this case US interests do align with doing the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ukraine is not my concern.

I'm so annoyed by all these European freeloaders.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you need to learn how the Military-Industrial Complex works, because if weapons aren't going to Ukraine, and it sounds like they won't, you still won't get your socialized medicine. Especially not in an oligarchical fascist dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We the people should get stubborn and refuse to support the goals of military industrial complex as long as they keep refusing us our goals.

I get absolutely nothing from Israel achieving it's goals of killing brown neighboring people and clearing space for themselves. Nothing.

Ukraine - u know what! I don't care about it. Just cut a deal for mutual management of Ukraine and equal economic access. I don't care about Ukraine winning or Ukraine being a strong country in eastern Europe. I do not care. It's outside of my interests as a private citizen, only military industrial complex wants that war.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What are you doing to get "we the people" to do that other than arguing on the internet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

nothing. im not going to do shit.

im just annoyed people buy into propaganda that goes against their best interests.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

You one post ago:

We the people should get stubborn and refuse to support the goals of military industrial complex as long as they keep refusing us our goals.

You now:

im not going to do shit.

Which is it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fair, but it misses the trees for the forest. The US already pays WAY more for healthcare than any other country. The money is literally there, just mismanaged. While I feel your frustration, simply cutting aid to allied countries won't change anything domestically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are not allied countries for me.
Israel is a genocidal regime and Ukraine is just a shithole in eastern Europe.

I don't need these as allies.
I get absolutely nothing, 0 from funding them. Cut them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Really? You're going to complain about one country's genocide and justify another in the same sentence? At least be consistent

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Okay so DO something about YOUR healthcare then.