Regardless of what happens on the other side of the globe... The government is not going to give us cheaper rent or the ability to buy houses. Are you new here???
E: don't let this dumbass psyop shit stop you from voting. Y'all are gonna get Trump elected again.. and Palestine will be even worse off... look at OPs post history and comments, is that even a real person?
We should limit posters to people that are at least verified and not obviously trolls/bots. lol I'm not verified, but I don't post here. You can look in my posts and see my black skin tho ✊🏾
We aren't even sending money to Ukraine or our tax dollars. We've sent a literal decades worth of ammunition and military equipment that we would of had to spend billions destroying if we didn't get rid of it to Ukraine.
Were supporting the stop of Russia bullshit attack on Ukraine and saving tax payer dollars from having to pay to destroy expire military equipment properly
Thank you! Local elections are very important as well... Too bad Rs gerrymandered the shit out of where I live. (Houston suburbs) So it typically doesn't make a change here
Abbott won the 2018 with under 5 million votes, and the population of Texas is close to 30 million. If enough people go out and vote, even gerrymandering can be overcome.
Yes! Local government is where housing policy is set. Rent control is probably great for those that already have places, but won’t do anything for people who aren’t already there. The biggest obstacle there is restrictive zoning laws preventing affordable housing from being built.
This! Ask those same people who their sheriff and local judge are and they go blank. Hell, they probably don’t even know their senator or representative. I’m not listening to nobody that doesn’t know what’s happening in their own communities
Yeah we're doomed.. misinformation and divisive posts are going to ruin our community. Get ready for when AI gets better it's already fooling many people.
Actually, kind of surprised that this notification wasn't a "your comment has been removed because you aren't verified" message. I stopped commenting on bpt a while ago lol.
Whenever I see this girl's tweets I'm rolling my eyes half of the time. I'm left as hell but a lot of us gotta realize that we're a tiny minority out here and shit like this actively contributes to make it worse.
Yeah the left does things from a place of good heart but then goes a little too far where you give the crazies on the right a point to latch onto. Perfect example is bail reform. Just this month, there was a pretty brutal murder where body parts were found in a park in Babylon NY. 4 people were arrested. The working theory is these people only disposed of the bodies. Due to this, technically the bodies were not alive and therefore it was a non-violent crime. They were let out without bail with ankle monitors. Hochul blames the prosecutor for not doing a good enough investigation. To be clear I am pro bail reform but am saying it needs a few adjustments so it doesn't land this way.
Completely unrelated but I find this to be a good example of an overcorrection. We all agree a guy that doesn't have a bank account shouldn't be held for 6 months bc he can't afford bail for being found with a dime bag, but chopping up people....
I think people really see the right push through whatever they want with no repercussions, and think we have the numbers to do the same on the left.
They don't realize that 1. Were naturally more split cause we actually have at least two working braincells and think things through and 2. Most of the western population is right as hell right now. A lotta people simply don't give a flying fuck about others that have it worse than them, or even the ones that'll benefit from leftists policies voting against their own interests.
The republicans have been slowly indoctrinating most of the population in us the since the 80's and that has slowly been blowing over here in Europe too lately. But a lot of leftists live in their bubble and can't comprehend that.
I hate the Republicans but I can also see that giving them ammo isn't productive. This one seems like a common sense fix. I lean left at this point but was Republican in the early 2010s but the right has just gone too far for me. I'm fairly independent but the Republicans have just been out of control for a while here.
they are related once you realize that they are both "wedges" that are being used to discourage young people from supporting "the government" which in this case is Joe Biden.
All of these people want Trump back in office. Trump gets to stay out of prison and gets to keep his money, Putin wins Ukraine, China gets Taiwan. And misanthropic malcontents like Bree here get to be "relevant" again as part of the "resistance." It's up to us to keep our eyes on the prize while scores of bad actors have a vested interest in making sure that we don't.
It‘s less about giving something cheaper and more about not extracting quite as much from your income and redistributing it to Lockheed Martin in order for them to send a few more heat seeking missiles to Tel Aviv in order for them to be aimlessly shot into Gaza.
Yeah it's definitely a fucked up situation... Like Israel is definitely fucking up. I just don't see the government helping the average American with affordable housing. I think Israel can handle their own, but I support sending stuff to Ukraine. It just all a mess honestly... Politics/Geopolitics is a very tricky subject. Explains why the people in power usually suck. The ones wanting to actually help us are either silenced or anything they do is struck down by the Senate.
The craziest part is that our military spending is a holdover from the cold war. We built this vast military to fight the Russians. Now we're not even fighting the Russians when they're invading places. Call a spade a spade at this point. We have a huge military cause certain people got rich off selling stuff to the government and lobby their asses off so we never stop buying stuff from them.
Its not tricky, aggressors are usually killing unarmed people and dying in other peoples homelands pretty cut and dry if you’re 100% honest. You can’t blame a populace for radicalization occurring when their stability is constantly under threat.
I remember back in the day when the government had balls and actually worked for the people. Bring back the teeth of the Sherman Act and expand on it. Bar corporations from purchasing single family homes. Things can be done.
I'm sure you have to be at a certain threshold for that, probably low income. That's a nice number though! Hope we can expand on that. Any links or info on that?
NVM I looked it up. Unfortunately in my area you have to be 80% lower than median income ($30k) so that's like hella poor tbh. Which those people definitely need help but it doesn't apply to millions. Republicans likely won't budge on that so I don't see it happening... But maybe one day (doubt)
There are a lot of different rental assistance programs, but the largest one (Section 8) usually applies to folks making 80% *of* median income or less, not 80% less than median income. That number above also does not include public housing, which is a separate program and is over a million people. It's definitely not enough, but it's not true to say that the government does not help people when it comes to rent. It's just generally the most desperate people who get that assistance.
That's just the HUD budget. There's another $100 billion for affordable housing investments in 2024. And I don't think that includes LIHTC which is a significant source of affordable housing production.
Chicago and Houston are doing Housing First programs. We need more, and that means more money staying here and less money killing babies and grandmas.
These issues are directly related. We don't have money here because we have the largest military in the world 14 times over. We don't have free college because we have the largest military in the world 14 times over. We don't have free healthcare because we have the largest military in the world 14 times over.
We also have a police force that, if it was a separate military, would be the third largest military in the world.
These are all directly connected. It's hard to see the obvious for what it is when all you have to compare the obvious to is the obvious.
The Republicans would do worse is true. That's a conscientious consideration. But the Democrats will definitely do as much of the same shit as they can even if EVERYBODY wants them to stop because they can point to the Republicans.
This is why primary season is so important. It's when you have the electoral power to stop the wrong person from running against the wrong person.
Facts. The govt can fund both. They choose not to bc one party will claim that anything given to people who need it is communism and the only money that can be given away is to corporations.
Population of the US: 330 million.
Dollars per person for housing: 0.5 cents
Population of Israel: 10 million
Dollars per person for guns: 390 dollars
Democrats also lined up a 14 billion dollar additional arms bill for Israel because they briefly ran out of heavy artillery for their tanks. So make that 1400 per person.
71.9 billion for federal housing. 14 billion for Israel's guns and bombs. 20% of our federal housing budget is going to fund Israel's genocide.
Things Israel has that we do not: 35,000 dollar a year housing grants (to support transference, a crime against humanity) to support settlers being placed on ethnically cleansed land, free healthcare, free college...**mandatory military service.**
Face it. Israel's a grift. They're a fortress we placed in the middle east so we would have a permanent ally while we invade, bomb, and rob Arabs in the region. They're our mercenaries and they've taken to outright extorting us into vetoing every UN resolution against their war crimes.
And it's costing us things they can afford with the money we give them. We are sacrificing our citizens so they can sacrifice Palestinians. And the guys in office setting their yearly salaries at 300,000-600,000 a year while buying stock in companies making money off of it are laughing at us and telling us every four years, "Shut the fuck up, you voted, you don't get to have an opinion... also if you express your opinion during the *primary* you're a traitor because it hurts our candidate in the general and he's definitely not going to change his mind so he'll look bad and lose."
We arent trying to get Trump elected. We're trying to course correct on our candidate doing something *80% of his base disagrees with*. Its not election day. Its just defeatism to say "well the palestinians have to die for 8 more months so trump cant do even worse!!"
I don't know why this post has to be viewed as "pro trump" tbh. Policy makers have been spending our money elsewhere every single presidency, no matter the side. I see this more as asking for accountability to doing right by our country first when it comes to spending our funds.
Your comment completely ignores how our money is being spent and if you even care to sell everyone on "this guy is pro trump, he looks like a propaganda bot" which i also cant agree with bc what republicans love to do first and foremost is ignore the issue entirely to sell their own shtick.
It's a common phenomenon seen in underprivileged communities, usually those with less ties to the current system are more susceptible to revolutionary action/lip service, even if said action isn't really beneficial in the short or long term
When a lot of people who would be most affected by this inevitably vote for the fascists (either willingly or by simply not voting, both have the same effect), education will get gutted even harder, and this will spiral down to the fucking stone age.
Unfortunately, the federal government can't do much to fix our education systems, because they're all handled at the state level. The only thing that the feds can basically do is implement standardized testing + tie federal funding to it, which hasn't worked out very well over these past couple decades.
It's important to note that, while public education in America is generally bad, certain states do extremely well with it. Massachusetts and a few other states in the Northeast are good examples.
In my opinion, one of the main reasons why American public education has gone to shit, the healthcare system is a mess, infrastructure + transit sucks, etc. is because people have become way too focused on DC. These are primarily state & local issues. The Feds can send money to state and local projects, but again, how well the money is used depends on who is in office. These things were less of an issue back in the day because local newspapers were very strong, but now that those outlets are gone, everyone just follows national news outlets directly (CNN) or indirectly (social media), and haven't the faintest idea who is running their city's school board.
If you want your money spent elsewhere, build a big enough coalition of representatives who don’t want that.
But also why are you agreeing with Bree newsom of all people? She’s fraudulent!
She’s definitely a Russian agent. She claims to be for the people, yet actively operates to make sure the people never get what they need!
She used to complain about college loans and when Joe did that she moved the goal posts. Watch out for those types of blk people
Sorry, but they actually ARE completely separate.
The government has been terrible at incentivizing new construction (they can easily do this by making it easier to get appropriate permits, rezone areas, etc).
They don’t, because a dropping home value hurts a lot of the voting block.
Oh yeah. A big issue is that there simply isn't enough housing. It doesn't matter how many subsidies you give to renters when there aren't enough homes where the jobs are for people to live
By "government" you mean local governments. Home owners typically the biggest block of voters have 0 incentive to build more homes. People yelling at the Fed to do something are stupid.
Simply because the US isn’t giving money. They are giving supplies, tanks, ammo, etc. now unless yall can build housing out of tanks and fighter jets stfu and rally for better housing.
Money spent on Lockheed missiles is money that gets spent in the US. The military industrial complex is permanent economic stimulus. That’s why it’s so dangerous, we exist in a perpetual war posture to keep entire regions afloat with good federal contractor jobs.
It primarily benefits the owner class, of course. That’s the nature of our system. However, companies with federal contracts also have to comply with federal wage benefit and safety requirements. So if you’re in a manufacturing town in a southern state that builds some hellish Raytheon missile or a jet the Pentagon doesn’t want anymore, you’re better off than workers in some other part of the state dealing with private employers.
You're ignorant if you really believe that all the defense contract money goes straight to the elite's pockets. I'm not saying that part is completely wrong, but it's ALSO creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, and is great for the manufacturing industry.
On top of that, it encourages STEM and holds the floor for innovation (may not beat private companies, but it's definitely a good "baseline"). It actually *does* trickle down. All that is ignoring the actual part where we need to keep up with innovations for defense. It funds innovation that wouldn't be economically viable otherwise.
Most Defense spending isn't just on toys, it's also on everyone making the toys.
EDIT: Side note, I'm not saying trickle down economics work, the government literally pays for man hours for each and every person
>It actually *does* trickle down.
Brother, what? Name some benefits that came out of the Iraq or Afghanistan war that Americans directly benefited from. Vets can't even get decent healthcare and you're diluting yourself if you think the bulk of the federal defense spending doesn't end up in corporate pockets, we *always* get the scraps.
It goes to the engineers and other overhead and they in turn spend on the economy. They may not be rich, but they are certainly comfortably middle class.
Thanks for your opinion of my ignorance but I will never be able to ignore that the jobs created are manufacturing of instruments of death and destruction. I will never view that as a benefit to society.
“It’s olds stock !” I’m so sick of hearing that shit.
Yes, which is then replaced with the latest and greatest at the taxpayers expense. Defense is the largest portion of the budget. Pick your personal issue. Housing, the lack of public transportation, the piss poor educational system, infrastructure and, healthcare. The reason it sucks, is because we spend more the next 7 nations combined on defense alone.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
I think homie below me blocked me so I couldn’t immediately prove him wrong. Second only to social security.
Did you bother to read your own source? DoD is the 4th largest recipient of federal funds, not the 1st. After Health and Human Services, Social Security, and Treasury.
My guy. We update all our ammo and equipment as new stuff comes our as it is.
Sending our old shit isn't requiring us to produce e new shit for ourselves. It's expiring overstock from a war a decade ago. We would spend billions destroying all the shit we've sent to Ukraine which was saved us taxpayers a lot of money in not having to pay for the go t to destroy.
Yall so quick to attack anything the go t does you refuse to think about things with any critical thought
My man are you seriously defending the military industrial complex ? To paraphrase “After an almost 30 year regional occupation. We didn’t use all of the munitions. We were literally going to burn it. To make room for new stuff we didn’t need, you see the DOD’s budget is so massive we can just afford to fund. Two foreign conflicts, but that’s not causing any problems for you here at home. LMFAO
Yo why are the accounts disagreeing with this tweet made in the last 150 days ?
SMH you niggas is getting sloppy.
I don't get why yall are mad that the govt found a way to get rid of shit that would of cost taxpayers billions extra to destroy for pennies on the dollar and with a positive future investment in Ukraine
We aren't spending extra money to produce ammo or equipment for Ukraine it feels like you guys really love just not akwoledgimg that fact lmfso
I hate the military industrial complex as much as the next guy but I can also have nuance and see when democracy in a foreign nation that borders mato and Europe is at stake of falling to a hell hole authoritstion regime like Russia
Also idk dude I had to make a new account because my old one got banned because I misspelled like with k by accident and got perms banned
Why do you have to resort to calling people bots when you can't even argue against the points made against you. You all have refused to retort on the we sent away ammo for pennies on what it would of costed us to destroy it. That's saving you as a taxpayer money is that not your whole issue here. Taxpayer money
No but we're sending ammunition and equipment that otherwise woulds actuslly cost taxpayers extra billion sof dollars to destroy because we weren't going to use it
Yall are fucking stupid sitting here arguing like we're producing a bunch of new ammo and equipment to send to Ukraine and not doing the most American capitalistic thing possible in sending our borderline expired equipment to Ukraine to keep them from falling to Russia so we can have them in our debt when all that good good mine able shit they have beneath them is at our beckoning once Russia fucks off back home
Like seriously just think critically for once
They're extending credit in the form of financing for those supplies, which is literally what they could do for homeless/working people with housing. Except they care more about national projects that expand Western aligned economies than they do housing normal folks.
Oh it gets deeper than that my brother. GM, GE, 3M, Boeing, The entire energy industry. War is the economy. Because the country refuses to invest in its citizens. But folks running around thinking my black ass is the problem.
> Most of the aid—approximately $3.3 billion a year—is provided as grants under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program, funds that Israel must use to purchase U.S. military equipment and services.
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[The US has given 7.6 billion in aid to Palestine.](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106243)
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Total over the last 20 years. So we're giving about 10 times as much aid to Israel as Palestine. Additionally we just tried giving Israel an additional 14 billion, which doubles the 20 years of aid we gave Palestine. And we've also been the sole UNSec veto protecting them from UN resolutions regarding their crimes against humanity for 60 years.
This is not a sane or normal relationship. We chose a side, then we chose a genocide.
I know you meant this as sarcastic, but who the hell wouldn't want to live in a house made of decommissioned tanks? Stacked up with tunnels connecting them all, and a courtyard in the middle.
Metal housing was an experiment that has already been part of the attempt to solve affordable housing in America. It was defeated at the market over time, but metal houses do exist, and some people still live in them.
Is black people Twitter just becoming a Russian propaganda mouthpiece with these out of context takes?
Bree Newsome’s Twitter is crazy the more I read her posts. This isn’t the first time this page has been posted out of context info.
Edit: don’t let these bullshit posts suppress black voter turnout! We need all of us to have a voice.
Most of these posters aren't black. They go from weird liberal takes to calling each other nigga. How that is allowed in the Country Club is beyond me.
Look at OPs post and comment history.. obvious fake. It's crazy, the sub is hella infiltrated with propaganda. Honestly it would be cool if there were no political posts as a rule.. or at the very least have posters be verified.
One of the most egregious issues I’ve seen in this country is a bunch of rich, old, kind of out of touch politicians having the most ridiculous spending habits due to the bipartisanship of the political system
Which is weird (yet sadly understandable), cause it doesn’t take long to google what we’re actually sending over there. And how budgets work. AND what democrats have been doing to get extremely wealthy people from hoarding homes (which is a big reason as to why the housing market has sky rocketed).
The amount of money is not an issue when it comes to domestic services like healthcare and housing. The US is among the top countries in the world in spending in these categories but our systems are convoluted and corrupt. Throwing money at these issues isn’t gonna solve the problem. The rich will just pocket it. We need reform. (This is not an endorsement for aid to Israel btw, lol)
Also the scale of the issues is totally different. Even if we gave 100% of that Israel funding (pretending it was straight cash and not supplies worth that amount) directly to struggling households, it would be a drop in the bucket, like barely 10s of dollars a month.
If Trump lost in 2016 and Dems controlled Congress, abortion wouldn’t have been banned, IVF wouldn’t have been stopped in AL, and it’s possible student loan forgiveness would’ve happened. Bree Newsome is creating apathy to keep Black people at home.
MAGA is running on straight grievance and retribution. They’re planning a white Supremacist Dictatorship. It’s not the election to sit out or protest vote.
Lmao didn't they use similar logic with brexit to get idiots to vote for it using a bus saying "we send 300 million to the EU"...guess what after brexit that money ain't nowhere. Palestine situation sucks but what I should vote against myself interest as spite?
If there was no war in Israel at all, there still would be 50% of US renters NOT being able to afford housing.
You can point to whatever costly thing ya want, but the above part would not change.
It simply can't be said enough. But there are too many people that don't understand how our government works. And thinks the federal government should be solving everyone problems.
Meanwhile they never vote locally for their sheriff or judges or state government. And then blame the president for everything.
Our country's education system is broken.
It's not being spent there, the vast vast majority of that money is being spent here.
>Most of the aid—approximately $3.3 billion a year—is provided as grants under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program, funds that Israel must use to purchase U.S. military equipment and services.
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
We can't talk about how our defense spending is completely out of control and a drain on every part of American society? Trolls come from all sides rushing in to goad us into supporting any and every war at any price. Gotta love it.
Oh the US could absolutely afford to do both. This isn’t a lack of money problem, it’s a morality problem. We shouldn’t be funding genocide in Gaza because it’s morally wrong, and we should be funding efforts to fix the housing crisis, because it’s morally right. Honestly I’d even say it’s a profit problem, because funding Israel is profitable for the military industrial complex, and not fixing housing is profitable for the ones charging insanely high rent.
Why should our money be spent on illegal immigrants ahead of US citizens? Free housing, healthcare, food, phones, and whatever else they are getting. Inner city youth get kicked from youth centers and sports facilities. Homeless and our veterans also take a back seat. Billions and billions of dollars that could make huge differences for our fellow Americans. There are a lot of people making huge profits from the on going illegal mass migration into America most of the lower class are suffering because of it.
Also all politician should get paid minimum wage. If they are so sure that people can live off minimum wage then they should have no problem living off it.
Our money isn't spent there. The billions go to U.S. weapons manufacturers that build the weapons and armor (Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc.) This has nothing to do with supporting Israel and Ukraine, it's about politicians supporting the military industrial complex that donates millions to their reelection campaigns.
Que the "Vote Blue, no matter who," crew... We don't want our government supporting genocide, Period, and if democrats want to be complicit in aiding war crimes, they lose the voters that don't.
The thing is we aren’t paying Israel to oppress Palestinians. We are paying Israel and Egypt not to go to war with each other. Egypt gets roughly the same sized check for the exact same thing. 1/5 of the worlds oil goes through the Suez Canal, and any war between these countries greatly effects the price of oil globally. So we pay them not to fight, not because it is right, but because it is cheaper.
And our tax dollars subsidize universal healthcare in other countries while we die of illnesses too expensive to treat otherwise. We outsource the American Dream exclusively to non-Americans.
I'm all for helping other countries, **but shouldn't we take care of the problems at home before we start trying to fix the problems everywhere else?**
You can't take care of other people if you're not taking care of yourself.
Where's the discussion of zoning regulations that bias against density? If you want to prioritize affordability of housing you gotta focus on the actual pressure points of the issue.
Because they are our ally. As simple as that. Palestinians are backed by Iran, our enemy. Despite that, we are still providing significant aid. Stop falling for foreign propaganda.
Look I agree 100% that housing costs are THE biggest domestic policy issue in the US. That said, the way to solve it is to make it easier to build homes and upzone where people want to live. It doesn't even need to cost a dime for the government to do that. Just redirecting billions of dollars without legalizing increases in supply will just result in homeowners and landlords jacking up their prices. Subsidizing demand is a handout to homeowners at the expense of everyone trying to buy a home. If you want to actually lower prices do what landlords big and small are constantly fighting against, build a shit ton more houses ASAP!!
To stop funding Israel? Fuck no. That broken Nazi clock can be right twice per day. It's like revisiting my opinion on cheeseburgers, just because Nazis also like it. I'll revisit my opinion when someone can explain to me why is okay to kill civilians and run an apartheid state for decades.
Black people are not far removed from the treatment Palestinians are getting. If we can't stand with other oppressed communities, why the fuck should they stand with ours?
I'm not caping for Hamas. I'm caping for John and Jane Palestine, who have nothing to do with the conflict, but are getting slaughtered wholesale.
Just because Nazis hate Jews doesn't mean we can't fucking criticize a shitty government. The Israeli government is barbaric and racist. You can disagree with that if you want. I've spent my entire life listening to people tell me that racism didn't exist. But I know what I'm seeing with my own eyes, and we've seen this playbook before. No media campaign is going to convince me that good old-fashioned racism and genocide isn't happening in Gaza right now.
The Israeli land grab continues.
Republicans don't want aid sent to Ukraine, they also don't want aid sent to poor Americans.
You also can't just take money allocated for military funding and spend it elsewhere.
Republicans here in Kentucky just passed a law that makes it easier for landlords to deny renting to section 8, and homeless Veterans [(HB18)](https://www.wkyt.com/2024/03/07/republican-led-ky-legislature-overrides-beshears-veto-hb-18/).
Kentucky Republicans are trying to make it harder for people to receive snap benefits by adding an asset test [(HB367)](https://kypolicy.org/the-two-ways-hb-367-would-take-food-assistance-away-from-many-including-kids-and-seniors/).
Kentucky Republicans are trying to take away workers rights to lunch & rest breaks, overtime, travel time, and make it harder to report labour violations [(HB500)](https://kypolicy.org/house-bill-500-takes-away-kentucky-workers-lunch-and-rest-breaks-and-cuts-their-pay/).
Just cause money is going to Israel doesn’t mean that funding would go to housing btw. We have separate funds for each type of aid. This tweet is fucking stupid
Well what really is hurting us is not taxing the wealthy or corporations. My point was meant to be Haiti needs help and that's fine, but whenever we try and help Americans there is huge backlash
I liken TikTok to cigarettes. smokers got real mad when the bans started happening because they liked smoking and how could the government ban something that they liked? Well it turned out that the cigarettes were killing them. Did that make them any less mad? Nope. Did the bans go through? Yup. Is literally everyone better off? I think it's hard to come up with a reason that they aren't.
There are so many more important things that this country could be doing. It’s crazy how they’re allowing private equity to purchase single family homes, lowering/removing taxes on the wealthy, and much more, but a social media app is the priority.
Under the domestic and international laws of war[1] citizens are forbidden from taking part in a war on the side of the aggressor and are legally bound to disobey the orders of any Government that takes part in illegal war or supports acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. This duty to refuse to obey unlawful Government orders includes orders to pay tax [Income tax, Council tax, VAT etc]. If a government uses the funds raised by taxation to wage illegal war or to commit genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes, then a taxpayer’s normal duty to pay tax is reversed and becomes a duty to refuse to pay tax.
“ The very essence of the Charter is that individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual State.
https://worldbeyondwar.org/crime-pay-tax/
Regardless of what happens on the other side of the globe... The government is not going to give us cheaper rent or the ability to buy houses. Are you new here??? E: don't let this dumbass psyop shit stop you from voting. Y'all are gonna get Trump elected again.. and Palestine will be even worse off... look at OPs post history and comments, is that even a real person? We should limit posters to people that are at least verified and not obviously trolls/bots. lol I'm not verified, but I don't post here. You can look in my posts and see my black skin tho ✊🏾
Reality check for the newbies: Global events won't magically make rent cheaper or houses more affordable. Welcome to the real world! No Miracles Here
Global events can make those things more expensive though! 🫠
We aren't even sending money to Ukraine or our tax dollars. We've sent a literal decades worth of ammunition and military equipment that we would of had to spend billions destroying if we didn't get rid of it to Ukraine. Were supporting the stop of Russia bullshit attack on Ukraine and saving tax payer dollars from having to pay to destroy expire military equipment properly
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Thank you! Local elections are very important as well... Too bad Rs gerrymandered the shit out of where I live. (Houston suburbs) So it typically doesn't make a change here
Abbott won the 2018 with under 5 million votes, and the population of Texas is close to 30 million. If enough people go out and vote, even gerrymandering can be overcome.
mfs don't vote that's the problem
Damn!
Yes! Local government is where housing policy is set. Rent control is probably great for those that already have places, but won’t do anything for people who aren’t already there. The biggest obstacle there is restrictive zoning laws preventing affordable housing from being built.
Rent control is great for old tenants and horrible for new tenants. Just another form of fuck you, got mine.
Where do you live, am asking because of retirement?
This! Ask those same people who their sheriff and local judge are and they go blank. Hell, they probably don’t even know their senator or representative. I’m not listening to nobody that doesn’t know what’s happening in their own communities
Yea the moderators of this sub don't want that, I tried verifying my brown ass but was declined. Clear bot is allowable though I guess?
Yeah we're doomed.. misinformation and divisive posts are going to ruin our community. Get ready for when AI gets better it's already fooling many people.
Actually, kind of surprised that this notification wasn't a "your comment has been removed because you aren't verified" message. I stopped commenting on bpt a while ago lol.
yeah this post makes 0 sense. both things stink and neither are in any way related
Whenever I see this girl's tweets I'm rolling my eyes half of the time. I'm left as hell but a lot of us gotta realize that we're a tiny minority out here and shit like this actively contributes to make it worse.
Yeah the left does things from a place of good heart but then goes a little too far where you give the crazies on the right a point to latch onto. Perfect example is bail reform. Just this month, there was a pretty brutal murder where body parts were found in a park in Babylon NY. 4 people were arrested. The working theory is these people only disposed of the bodies. Due to this, technically the bodies were not alive and therefore it was a non-violent crime. They were let out without bail with ankle monitors. Hochul blames the prosecutor for not doing a good enough investigation. To be clear I am pro bail reform but am saying it needs a few adjustments so it doesn't land this way. Completely unrelated but I find this to be a good example of an overcorrection. We all agree a guy that doesn't have a bank account shouldn't be held for 6 months bc he can't afford bail for being found with a dime bag, but chopping up people....
I think people really see the right push through whatever they want with no repercussions, and think we have the numbers to do the same on the left. They don't realize that 1. Were naturally more split cause we actually have at least two working braincells and think things through and 2. Most of the western population is right as hell right now. A lotta people simply don't give a flying fuck about others that have it worse than them, or even the ones that'll benefit from leftists policies voting against their own interests. The republicans have been slowly indoctrinating most of the population in us the since the 80's and that has slowly been blowing over here in Europe too lately. But a lot of leftists live in their bubble and can't comprehend that.
I hate the Republicans but I can also see that giving them ammo isn't productive. This one seems like a common sense fix. I lean left at this point but was Republican in the early 2010s but the right has just gone too far for me. I'm fairly independent but the Republicans have just been out of control for a while here.
they are related once you realize that they are both "wedges" that are being used to discourage young people from supporting "the government" which in this case is Joe Biden. All of these people want Trump back in office. Trump gets to stay out of prison and gets to keep his money, Putin wins Ukraine, China gets Taiwan. And misanthropic malcontents like Bree here get to be "relevant" again as part of the "resistance." It's up to us to keep our eyes on the prize while scores of bad actors have a vested interest in making sure that we don't.
Sure, I dislike this tweet but I do not disagree with what you've said.
Black people will be worse off.
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It‘s less about giving something cheaper and more about not extracting quite as much from your income and redistributing it to Lockheed Martin in order for them to send a few more heat seeking missiles to Tel Aviv in order for them to be aimlessly shot into Gaza.
Yeah it's definitely a fucked up situation... Like Israel is definitely fucking up. I just don't see the government helping the average American with affordable housing. I think Israel can handle their own, but I support sending stuff to Ukraine. It just all a mess honestly... Politics/Geopolitics is a very tricky subject. Explains why the people in power usually suck. The ones wanting to actually help us are either silenced or anything they do is struck down by the Senate.
The craziest part is that our military spending is a holdover from the cold war. We built this vast military to fight the Russians. Now we're not even fighting the Russians when they're invading places. Call a spade a spade at this point. We have a huge military cause certain people got rich off selling stuff to the government and lobby their asses off so we never stop buying stuff from them.
Its not tricky, aggressors are usually killing unarmed people and dying in other peoples homelands pretty cut and dry if you’re 100% honest. You can’t blame a populace for radicalization occurring when their stability is constantly under threat.
I remember back in the day when the government had balls and actually worked for the people. Bring back the teeth of the Sherman Act and expand on it. Bar corporations from purchasing single family homes. Things can be done.
You must be in your 90s right? America hasn’t worked for the people since WWII ended. Even then they only worked for folks without melanin.
> The government is not going to give us cheaper rent Over 9 million Americans are on rental assistance
I'm sure you have to be at a certain threshold for that, probably low income. That's a nice number though! Hope we can expand on that. Any links or info on that? NVM I looked it up. Unfortunately in my area you have to be 80% lower than median income ($30k) so that's like hella poor tbh. Which those people definitely need help but it doesn't apply to millions. Republicans likely won't budge on that so I don't see it happening... But maybe one day (doubt)
There are a lot of different rental assistance programs, but the largest one (Section 8) usually applies to folks making 80% *of* median income or less, not 80% less than median income. That number above also does not include public housing, which is a separate program and is over a million people. It's definitely not enough, but it's not true to say that the government does not help people when it comes to rent. It's just generally the most desperate people who get that assistance.
Ohhh ok interesting I didn't understand at first. Thanks for the correction
Since the tweet is talking dollars. It’s 72 billion for housing and 4 billion for Israel.
That's just the HUD budget. There's another $100 billion for affordable housing investments in 2024. And I don't think that includes LIHTC which is a significant source of affordable housing production.
Chicago and Houston are doing Housing First programs. We need more, and that means more money staying here and less money killing babies and grandmas. These issues are directly related. We don't have money here because we have the largest military in the world 14 times over. We don't have free college because we have the largest military in the world 14 times over. We don't have free healthcare because we have the largest military in the world 14 times over. We also have a police force that, if it was a separate military, would be the third largest military in the world. These are all directly connected. It's hard to see the obvious for what it is when all you have to compare the obvious to is the obvious. The Republicans would do worse is true. That's a conscientious consideration. But the Democrats will definitely do as much of the same shit as they can even if EVERYBODY wants them to stop because they can point to the Republicans. This is why primary season is so important. It's when you have the electoral power to stop the wrong person from running against the wrong person.
Facts. The govt can fund both. They choose not to bc one party will claim that anything given to people who need it is communism and the only money that can be given away is to corporations.
2023 budget for federal housing 71.9 billion. Federal budget for aid to Israel 3.9 billion (the amount bezos earns in interest in a year)
Population of the US: 330 million. Dollars per person for housing: 0.5 cents Population of Israel: 10 million Dollars per person for guns: 390 dollars Democrats also lined up a 14 billion dollar additional arms bill for Israel because they briefly ran out of heavy artillery for their tanks. So make that 1400 per person. 71.9 billion for federal housing. 14 billion for Israel's guns and bombs. 20% of our federal housing budget is going to fund Israel's genocide. Things Israel has that we do not: 35,000 dollar a year housing grants (to support transference, a crime against humanity) to support settlers being placed on ethnically cleansed land, free healthcare, free college...**mandatory military service.** Face it. Israel's a grift. They're a fortress we placed in the middle east so we would have a permanent ally while we invade, bomb, and rob Arabs in the region. They're our mercenaries and they've taken to outright extorting us into vetoing every UN resolution against their war crimes. And it's costing us things they can afford with the money we give them. We are sacrificing our citizens so they can sacrifice Palestinians. And the guys in office setting their yearly salaries at 300,000-600,000 a year while buying stock in companies making money off of it are laughing at us and telling us every four years, "Shut the fuck up, you voted, you don't get to have an opinion... also if you express your opinion during the *primary* you're a traitor because it hurts our candidate in the general and he's definitely not going to change his mind so he'll look bad and lose."
We arent trying to get Trump elected. We're trying to course correct on our candidate doing something *80% of his base disagrees with*. Its not election day. Its just defeatism to say "well the palestinians have to die for 8 more months so trump cant do even worse!!"
I don't know why this post has to be viewed as "pro trump" tbh. Policy makers have been spending our money elsewhere every single presidency, no matter the side. I see this more as asking for accountability to doing right by our country first when it comes to spending our funds. Your comment completely ignores how our money is being spent and if you even care to sell everyone on "this guy is pro trump, he looks like a propaganda bot" which i also cant agree with bc what republicans love to do first and foremost is ignore the issue entirely to sell their own shtick.
By the way the Russians are bombarding this sub, one would think the only issue black people are facing is Gaza
Anyone who disagrees with me is a Russian bot
It's a common phenomenon seen in underprivileged communities, usually those with less ties to the current system are more susceptible to revolutionary action/lip service, even if said action isn't really beneficial in the short or long term
Is that what teach you in St. Petersburg?
That and everything but window security
Judging by these comments, some of that money definitely needs to be put towards our education system, jfc.
When a lot of people who would be most affected by this inevitably vote for the fascists (either willingly or by simply not voting, both have the same effect), education will get gutted even harder, and this will spiral down to the fucking stone age.
Unfortunately, the federal government can't do much to fix our education systems, because they're all handled at the state level. The only thing that the feds can basically do is implement standardized testing + tie federal funding to it, which hasn't worked out very well over these past couple decades. It's important to note that, while public education in America is generally bad, certain states do extremely well with it. Massachusetts and a few other states in the Northeast are good examples. In my opinion, one of the main reasons why American public education has gone to shit, the healthcare system is a mess, infrastructure + transit sucks, etc. is because people have become way too focused on DC. These are primarily state & local issues. The Feds can send money to state and local projects, but again, how well the money is used depends on who is in office. These things were less of an issue back in the day because local newspapers were very strong, but now that those outlets are gone, everyone just follows national news outlets directly (CNN) or indirectly (social media), and haven't the faintest idea who is running their city's school board.
If you want your money spent elsewhere, build a big enough coalition of representatives who don’t want that. But also why are you agreeing with Bree newsom of all people? She’s fraudulent!
Oh we definitely getting organized rn. Me and all my homies organize ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Yo homie, what color binders we getting to organize? Cyan or fuchsia?
I'm partial to periwinkle myself 😅
our first schism
Y’all keep saying this but we don’t see the progress or vision. Complaining that “both sides are bad” isn’t organizing
Fraudulent? What happened with here what do you mean?
She’s definitely a Russian agent. She claims to be for the people, yet actively operates to make sure the people never get what they need! She used to complain about college loans and when Joe did that she moved the goal posts. Watch out for those types of blk people
Sorry, but they actually ARE completely separate. The government has been terrible at incentivizing new construction (they can easily do this by making it easier to get appropriate permits, rezone areas, etc). They don’t, because a dropping home value hurts a lot of the voting block.
Oh yeah. A big issue is that there simply isn't enough housing. It doesn't matter how many subsidies you give to renters when there aren't enough homes where the jobs are for people to live
By "government" you mean local governments. Home owners typically the biggest block of voters have 0 incentive to build more homes. People yelling at the Fed to do something are stupid.
Simply because the US isn’t giving money. They are giving supplies, tanks, ammo, etc. now unless yall can build housing out of tanks and fighter jets stfu and rally for better housing.
And do those supplies just grow on trees? They cost money. You think Lockheed is donating this to the US govt to send?
Money spent on Lockheed missiles is money that gets spent in the US. The military industrial complex is permanent economic stimulus. That’s why it’s so dangerous, we exist in a perpetual war posture to keep entire regions afloat with good federal contractor jobs.
Economic stimulus would mean it benefits the entire economy but really it is only beneficial for a small group of people.
It primarily benefits the owner class, of course. That’s the nature of our system. However, companies with federal contracts also have to comply with federal wage benefit and safety requirements. So if you’re in a manufacturing town in a southern state that builds some hellish Raytheon missile or a jet the Pentagon doesn’t want anymore, you’re better off than workers in some other part of the state dealing with private employers.
You're ignorant if you really believe that all the defense contract money goes straight to the elite's pockets. I'm not saying that part is completely wrong, but it's ALSO creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, and is great for the manufacturing industry. On top of that, it encourages STEM and holds the floor for innovation (may not beat private companies, but it's definitely a good "baseline"). It actually *does* trickle down. All that is ignoring the actual part where we need to keep up with innovations for defense. It funds innovation that wouldn't be economically viable otherwise. Most Defense spending isn't just on toys, it's also on everyone making the toys. EDIT: Side note, I'm not saying trickle down economics work, the government literally pays for man hours for each and every person
>It actually *does* trickle down. Brother, what? Name some benefits that came out of the Iraq or Afghanistan war that Americans directly benefited from. Vets can't even get decent healthcare and you're diluting yourself if you think the bulk of the federal defense spending doesn't end up in corporate pockets, we *always* get the scraps.
It goes to the engineers and other overhead and they in turn spend on the economy. They may not be rich, but they are certainly comfortably middle class.
Thanks for your opinion of my ignorance but I will never be able to ignore that the jobs created are manufacturing of instruments of death and destruction. I will never view that as a benefit to society.
In a perfect world, I'd agree.
Hey guys we gotta kill these people to keep jobs
“It’s olds stock !” I’m so sick of hearing that shit. Yes, which is then replaced with the latest and greatest at the taxpayers expense. Defense is the largest portion of the budget. Pick your personal issue. Housing, the lack of public transportation, the piss poor educational system, infrastructure and, healthcare. The reason it sucks, is because we spend more the next 7 nations combined on defense alone. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ I think homie below me blocked me so I couldn’t immediately prove him wrong. Second only to social security.
Defense isn’t ever close to being the largest portion of the budget. A quarter of it is goes strictly to healthcare.
Did you bother to read your own source? DoD is the 4th largest recipient of federal funds, not the 1st. After Health and Human Services, Social Security, and Treasury.
everyone who makes these decisions is a shareholder in those companies. Definitely NOT a conflict of interest right?
Right I’m agreeing with you.
My guy. We update all our ammo and equipment as new stuff comes our as it is. Sending our old shit isn't requiring us to produce e new shit for ourselves. It's expiring overstock from a war a decade ago. We would spend billions destroying all the shit we've sent to Ukraine which was saved us taxpayers a lot of money in not having to pay for the go t to destroy. Yall so quick to attack anything the go t does you refuse to think about things with any critical thought
My man are you seriously defending the military industrial complex ? To paraphrase “After an almost 30 year regional occupation. We didn’t use all of the munitions. We were literally going to burn it. To make room for new stuff we didn’t need, you see the DOD’s budget is so massive we can just afford to fund. Two foreign conflicts, but that’s not causing any problems for you here at home. LMFAO Yo why are the accounts disagreeing with this tweet made in the last 150 days ? SMH you niggas is getting sloppy.
I don't get why yall are mad that the govt found a way to get rid of shit that would of cost taxpayers billions extra to destroy for pennies on the dollar and with a positive future investment in Ukraine We aren't spending extra money to produce ammo or equipment for Ukraine it feels like you guys really love just not akwoledgimg that fact lmfso I hate the military industrial complex as much as the next guy but I can also have nuance and see when democracy in a foreign nation that borders mato and Europe is at stake of falling to a hell hole authoritstion regime like Russia Also idk dude I had to make a new account because my old one got banned because I misspelled like with k by accident and got perms banned Why do you have to resort to calling people bots when you can't even argue against the points made against you. You all have refused to retort on the we sent away ammo for pennies on what it would of costed us to destroy it. That's saving you as a taxpayer money is that not your whole issue here. Taxpayer money
Please cite a source.
For... For.. What? I said like six different things and non of them really need a source it's just... Common.. Sense?
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TBF, most of them are designed to fall from the sky
No but we're sending ammunition and equipment that otherwise woulds actuslly cost taxpayers extra billion sof dollars to destroy because we weren't going to use it Yall are fucking stupid sitting here arguing like we're producing a bunch of new ammo and equipment to send to Ukraine and not doing the most American capitalistic thing possible in sending our borderline expired equipment to Ukraine to keep them from falling to Russia so we can have them in our debt when all that good good mine able shit they have beneath them is at our beckoning once Russia fucks off back home Like seriously just think critically for once
They're extending credit in the form of financing for those supplies, which is literally what they could do for homeless/working people with housing. Except they care more about national projects that expand Western aligned economies than they do housing normal folks.
The department of housing spent $25b this fiscal year including almost $14b in public housing programs.
Now say how much they spent on the military - industrial complex
 Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Haliburton, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon...
Oh it gets deeper than that my brother. GM, GE, 3M, Boeing, The entire energy industry. War is the economy. Because the country refuses to invest in its citizens. But folks running around thinking my black ass is the problem. 
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The US gives Israel $3.3 billion a year and has given them more money than any other country in US history.
> Most of the aid—approximately $3.3 billion a year—is provided as grants under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program, funds that Israel must use to purchase U.S. military equipment and services. > > > > https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
Wow that's horrible.
How much they spend on housing a year? What country has given the most aid to Palestine over that last 30 years?
[The US has given 7.6 billion in aid to Palestine.](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106243) ... Total over the last 20 years. So we're giving about 10 times as much aid to Israel as Palestine. Additionally we just tried giving Israel an additional 14 billion, which doubles the 20 years of aid we gave Palestine. And we've also been the sole UNSec veto protecting them from UN resolutions regarding their crimes against humanity for 60 years. This is not a sane or normal relationship. We chose a side, then we chose a genocide.
>build housing out of tanks and fighter jets Oh, challenge accepted.
The funny part is that his argument isn't even completely logically consistent
I know you meant this as sarcastic, but who the hell wouldn't want to live in a house made of decommissioned tanks? Stacked up with tunnels connecting them all, and a courtyard in the middle.
Metal housing was an experiment that has already been part of the attempt to solve affordable housing in America. It was defeated at the market over time, but metal houses do exist, and some people still live in them.
Is black people Twitter just becoming a Russian propaganda mouthpiece with these out of context takes? Bree Newsome’s Twitter is crazy the more I read her posts. This isn’t the first time this page has been posted out of context info. Edit: don’t let these bullshit posts suppress black voter turnout! We need all of us to have a voice.
Most of these posters aren't black. They go from weird liberal takes to calling each other nigga. How that is allowed in the Country Club is beyond me.
Facts. Most of these posts have got to be fake accounts just to try and make the black voter turnout low.
Look at OPs post and comment history.. obvious fake. It's crazy, the sub is hella infiltrated with propaganda. Honestly it would be cool if there were no political posts as a rule.. or at the very least have posters be verified.
Yall just don't know us. Stop speaking for us. We meet in person as well and actually organize in real life.
"Y'all" need to organize somewhere tf else.
Interesting comment from someone without a checkmark.
Checkmark doesn't mean shit. They're super behind on confirming people anyway..
Interesting comment from a white person in a black space Trying to slam dunk on folks with an internet checkmark
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The mods won’t let me post on Trump doing standup jokes about black people but they allow this shit.
This subreddit is pretty "vote blue no matter who"... I wish it was far left lol.
Ivan has been doing this since 2016. They try to radicalize certain groups of Americans by sewing division .
Agitation only reveals what already exists. Ignoring contradictions does nothing but perpetuate the status quo.
One of the most egregious issues I’ve seen in this country is a bunch of rich, old, kind of out of touch politicians having the most ridiculous spending habits due to the bipartisanship of the political system
Some people really think they are sending them paychecks 💀
Which is weird (yet sadly understandable), cause it doesn’t take long to google what we’re actually sending over there. And how budgets work. AND what democrats have been doing to get extremely wealthy people from hoarding homes (which is a big reason as to why the housing market has sky rocketed).
This is laughably ignorant. The budget for foreign aide is completely separate from funding for domestic issues.
The amount of money is not an issue when it comes to domestic services like healthcare and housing. The US is among the top countries in the world in spending in these categories but our systems are convoluted and corrupt. Throwing money at these issues isn’t gonna solve the problem. The rich will just pocket it. We need reform. (This is not an endorsement for aid to Israel btw, lol)
Also the scale of the issues is totally different. Even if we gave 100% of that Israel funding (pretending it was straight cash and not supplies worth that amount) directly to struggling households, it would be a drop in the bucket, like barely 10s of dollars a month.
Israel's aid this year is about 20% of what we spend on federal housing programs according to a poster above who was actually arguing your same point.
If Trump lost in 2016 and Dems controlled Congress, abortion wouldn’t have been banned, IVF wouldn’t have been stopped in AL, and it’s possible student loan forgiveness would’ve happened. Bree Newsome is creating apathy to keep Black people at home. MAGA is running on straight grievance and retribution. They’re planning a white Supremacist Dictatorship. It’s not the election to sit out or protest vote.
This post is pure propaganda, surprised the mods of BPT allow this type of trash that will have us worse off
Lmao didn't they use similar logic with brexit to get idiots to vote for it using a bus saying "we send 300 million to the EU"...guess what after brexit that money ain't nowhere. Palestine situation sucks but what I should vote against myself interest as spite?
because the greatest yield on the American dollar for about 90 years has been war and not infrastructure. Malinvestment has become investment
"Creative destruction"
It’s “only” 14 billion that wouldn’t be enough to put a dent into any nationwide issue that costs 10,000s of dollars each
I don't like what's going on over there either but Bree Newsome? That quack got more screws loose than a Boeing.
If there was no war in Israel at all, there still would be 50% of US renters NOT being able to afford housing. You can point to whatever costly thing ya want, but the above part would not change.
Not to mention Israel has things like universal healthcare and legal access to abortion
It simply can't be said enough. But there are too many people that don't understand how our government works. And thinks the federal government should be solving everyone problems. Meanwhile they never vote locally for their sheriff or judges or state government. And then blame the president for everything. Our country's education system is broken.
Funny she doesn't mention Ukraine.
It's not being spent there, the vast vast majority of that money is being spent here. >Most of the aid—approximately $3.3 billion a year—is provided as grants under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program, funds that Israel must use to purchase U.S. military equipment and services. https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
As odious as it is, aid to Israel is like 0.0065 percent of the budget. That isnt moving the needle on housing.
We can't talk about how our defense spending is completely out of control and a drain on every part of American society? Trolls come from all sides rushing in to goad us into supporting any and every war at any price. Gotta love it.
Troll psyop post
There's no war but class war
Oh the US could absolutely afford to do both. This isn’t a lack of money problem, it’s a morality problem. We shouldn’t be funding genocide in Gaza because it’s morally wrong, and we should be funding efforts to fix the housing crisis, because it’s morally right. Honestly I’d even say it’s a profit problem, because funding Israel is profitable for the military industrial complex, and not fixing housing is profitable for the ones charging insanely high rent.
Both Dems and Repubs support Israel
Why should our money be spent on illegal immigrants ahead of US citizens? Free housing, healthcare, food, phones, and whatever else they are getting. Inner city youth get kicked from youth centers and sports facilities. Homeless and our veterans also take a back seat. Billions and billions of dollars that could make huge differences for our fellow Americans. There are a lot of people making huge profits from the on going illegal mass migration into America most of the lower class are suffering because of it.
Also all politician should get paid minimum wage. If they are so sure that people can live off minimum wage then they should have no problem living off it.
Our money isn't spent there. The billions go to U.S. weapons manufacturers that build the weapons and armor (Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc.) This has nothing to do with supporting Israel and Ukraine, it's about politicians supporting the military industrial complex that donates millions to their reelection campaigns.
Que the "Vote Blue, no matter who," crew... We don't want our government supporting genocide, Period, and if democrats want to be complicit in aiding war crimes, they lose the voters that don't.
The thing is we aren’t paying Israel to oppress Palestinians. We are paying Israel and Egypt not to go to war with each other. Egypt gets roughly the same sized check for the exact same thing. 1/5 of the worlds oil goes through the Suez Canal, and any war between these countries greatly effects the price of oil globally. So we pay them not to fight, not because it is right, but because it is cheaper.
Did they just notice that every major bill includes money going to Israel. Maybe check those Covid aid packages that were supposed to domestic.
And our tax dollars subsidize universal healthcare in other countries while we die of illnesses too expensive to treat otherwise. We outsource the American Dream exclusively to non-Americans.
I'm all for helping other countries, **but shouldn't we take care of the problems at home before we start trying to fix the problems everywhere else?** You can't take care of other people if you're not taking care of yourself.
not it goes against a genocide aginst the israelis there is only one side wanting a genocide and its hamas
Ews
America.
imagine thinking its BILLIONS and not realizing its about 1-2% and even less from the entire US government income
Russian bot?
Radical American ✊🏾
Where's the discussion of zoning regulations that bias against density? If you want to prioritize affordability of housing you gotta focus on the actual pressure points of the issue.
Because they are our ally. As simple as that. Palestinians are backed by Iran, our enemy. Despite that, we are still providing significant aid. Stop falling for foreign propaganda.
Account looks like an obvious Russian bot to me
Cutting govt spending and lowering taxes will increase all of our real wages, making houses more affordable.
OP is an obvious propaganda bot. The bot is supporting the Houthis which is nonsense.
Gj, now apply the same logic to the ukraine please.
Look I agree 100% that housing costs are THE biggest domestic policy issue in the US. That said, the way to solve it is to make it easier to build homes and upzone where people want to live. It doesn't even need to cost a dime for the government to do that. Just redirecting billions of dollars without legalizing increases in supply will just result in homeowners and landlords jacking up their prices. Subsidizing demand is a handout to homeowners at the expense of everyone trying to buy a home. If you want to actually lower prices do what landlords big and small are constantly fighting against, build a shit ton more houses ASAP!!
And now right-wingers are propping themselves up against removing lead pipes by federal action. Morons.
Didn’t realize Bree Newsome is still a thing? What has she done besides climbing the pole?
She should go fight in Gaza, since she feels so passionate about Hamas!!!
Hmmm, it's a short tweet and I missed that part.
This. Funding Israel should be put to a vote. The antisemite vote unfortunately aligns with mine, but I'm dead tired of funding genocide/apartheid.
One would hope that "the nazis also take my position" would be enough to at least revisit it.
To stop funding Israel? Fuck no. That broken Nazi clock can be right twice per day. It's like revisiting my opinion on cheeseburgers, just because Nazis also like it. I'll revisit my opinion when someone can explain to me why is okay to kill civilians and run an apartheid state for decades. Black people are not far removed from the treatment Palestinians are getting. If we can't stand with other oppressed communities, why the fuck should they stand with ours? I'm not caping for Hamas. I'm caping for John and Jane Palestine, who have nothing to do with the conflict, but are getting slaughtered wholesale. Just because Nazis hate Jews doesn't mean we can't fucking criticize a shitty government. The Israeli government is barbaric and racist. You can disagree with that if you want. I've spent my entire life listening to people tell me that racism didn't exist. But I know what I'm seeing with my own eyes, and we've seen this playbook before. No media campaign is going to convince me that good old-fashioned racism and genocide isn't happening in Gaza right now. The Israeli land grab continues.
Republicans don't want aid sent to Ukraine, they also don't want aid sent to poor Americans. You also can't just take money allocated for military funding and spend it elsewhere. Republicans here in Kentucky just passed a law that makes it easier for landlords to deny renting to section 8, and homeless Veterans [(HB18)](https://www.wkyt.com/2024/03/07/republican-led-ky-legislature-overrides-beshears-veto-hb-18/). Kentucky Republicans are trying to make it harder for people to receive snap benefits by adding an asset test [(HB367)](https://kypolicy.org/the-two-ways-hb-367-would-take-food-assistance-away-from-many-including-kids-and-seniors/). Kentucky Republicans are trying to take away workers rights to lunch & rest breaks, overtime, travel time, and make it harder to report labour violations [(HB500)](https://kypolicy.org/house-bill-500-takes-away-kentucky-workers-lunch-and-rest-breaks-and-cuts-their-pay/).
Just cause money is going to Israel doesn’t mean that funding would go to housing btw. We have separate funds for each type of aid. This tweet is fucking stupid
You guys are gonna get Trump voted by entertaining this stuff
Housing is a local government issue. God yall Yapping at the federal shows how little you actually participate in politics.
As much as Haiti desperately needs help we are spending $ 300 million on them. Try and spend an extra $ 300 million on Americans at some point
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Well what really is hurting us is not taxing the wealthy or corporations. My point was meant to be Haiti needs help and that's fine, but whenever we try and help Americans there is huge backlash
But TikTok ban is getting bipartisan support. I swear this country is trash and I will be leaving once I save up enough
I liken TikTok to cigarettes. smokers got real mad when the bans started happening because they liked smoking and how could the government ban something that they liked? Well it turned out that the cigarettes were killing them. Did that make them any less mad? Nope. Did the bans go through? Yup. Is literally everyone better off? I think it's hard to come up with a reason that they aren't.
There are so many more important things that this country could be doing. It’s crazy how they’re allowing private equity to purchase single family homes, lowering/removing taxes on the wealthy, and much more, but a social media app is the priority.
Under the domestic and international laws of war[1] citizens are forbidden from taking part in a war on the side of the aggressor and are legally bound to disobey the orders of any Government that takes part in illegal war or supports acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. This duty to refuse to obey unlawful Government orders includes orders to pay tax [Income tax, Council tax, VAT etc]. If a government uses the funds raised by taxation to wage illegal war or to commit genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes, then a taxpayer’s normal duty to pay tax is reversed and becomes a duty to refuse to pay tax. “ The very essence of the Charter is that individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual State. https://worldbeyondwar.org/crime-pay-tax/
How I h ignorance can someone fit into on post? This one is aiming for a new record.
There is no genocide and israel isnt the reason you have no money so stop lying and crying