US approves $7.4bn sale of more weapons to Israel used to ravage Gaza
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You can visually see the old guard dying in real time.
Before the 1950s the DNC was the party for racism, after LBJ signed the civil rights act they slowly became the party of civil rights and equity.
You can literally see the evolution of political parties even when looking at individuals: In the 1970s Biden fought forced desegregation of schools, in 1995 Biden helped write laws that gave a huge sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine (which had some racist enforcement repercussions), in 2009 he became the Vice President for the first Black POTUS, in 2011 he went in front of Congress and begged them not to renew that 95 crime bill because of the disparity, and now in 2025 he's being treated as the icon for federal DEI hiring practices.
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Oh my god. I thought I’d seen it all. When I look at this comment I feel sad for mankind. This comment is literally scum of the earth quality. This comment should go hang itself.
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This comment should play blindfolded on the Autobahn
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When will DOGE cut this spending?
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I'm sure you'll win the lottery someday. Just keep trying!!
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If you think you can argue with numbers that's more on you than me.
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This is both disingenuous and extremely reductive.
The majority of foreign aid in the past few years has gone to Ukraine. It also goes into disease prevention, such as the Ebola outbreak, and fighting aids and other diseases.
Are there issues? Absolutely. But those issues are more about the US not caring that it destroys existing infrastructure (for instance Haitis ability to grow food) while replacing it with dependence on the US.
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I gwt your sarcasm, but what should I be doing as a poor US citizen?
-Writing letters? (Unlikely to persuade people because opinions are divided on humanitarian versus hard-core Christian theologian views. I would need to remotely deprogram elected officials for this to work.)
-Holding signs to protest? (Unlikely to persuade for the same reasons.)
-Sending lengthy theological arguments to right-wing types? (I could try it. It would be strange coming from an atheist vut I could try?)
-Donations? (I looked at some organizations helping Gaza and many of their leaders make substantially more than me per year and I'm dealing with financial hardship. It's hard for me to donate to an organization with leaders who have high salaries while I struggle with bills, but maybe that's a bad excuse. Maybe some leaders with high salaries donate to their own organization, but if so it wasn't listed.)
-Direct donations? (I should probably do this, and I'm not sure how to do this.)
Please, tell me the appropriate response for a poor person, even if it's anything other than nothing. I just feel like nothing I do will be effective.
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I think the poster's post was not about this specific instance, but about the bigger picture. If someone gives you 20 dollars in food aid and then you buy 20 dollars in oranges from them, is it a sale or is it really more of a gift just masquerading as a sale? I think that was the poster's point, not whether the particular article refers to something actually gifted versus paid for.
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Even if this is technically true, if there is a certain amount of aid and a certain percent goes to US deals that are exported, and then the aid gets bigger with the expectation of larger more expensive export deals, I'm just not sure if this is meaningfully true rather than technically true. I am not downvoting you, BTW, I appreciate the correction, but just belive you are are confusing a semantic difference with actual ignorance.
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Right, but Biden failed in communicating with people.
He said it wasn't that bad. That wasn't reassuring.
Even of soil problems and climate change are leading to crop reductions, and if that's the real issue, along with increasing the money supply, telling Americans "eh, it's not that bad everything looks fine based on the CPI" was an epic fail for a President.
His strategy may have been the best option, although that's doubtful, as I can think of various policies that would have reassured people without altering the money supply and am familiar with classical economic theories, but he failed to make people feel like he saw their pain. It was terrible politics from Biden, who is usually great at this stuff, and he failed at this because he was never in charge before and could rely on his extreme likability.
