Do you ever wonder how much taxes could be dropped in your nation, if you stopped funding nations what doesn't need aid, just to help secure contracts to US businesses?
Or when Noble Peace Prize winners shoot up hospitals with AC-130U gunships, blowing some 42 people to bits and dismembering and injuring some 30 others with Gatling guns and 40MM Bofors cannons.
Road death in the US is 12 fatalities per 100 000 citizens in 2021, or 42 915.
Fatalities from guns was 38 390 of which 24 432 were suicides, in 2018 according to the CDC (why is the CDC tallying gun deaths?).
Using progressive logic, we can thus conclude that removing roads and/or private vehicle ownership saves lives. Because who /really/ needs to own a car, apart from very few people working for governement and big corporations?
You should e-mail that line to the White House, see if Team Biden picks it up for Novembah. <honk>
Well.... I really shouldn't but since it's a morbid interest:
Iron Age is even more hard core. Here are a few examples:
Among the germanic tribes, rape was punished by pounding a blunt stake through the thorax of the offender and into the ground, in such a way as he died slowly.
Prisoners of war, if they were celts or southerners (romans and such) were often drugged with plants giving them hallucinations before being sacrificed; their genitals were cut away in such a manner as to leave a gaping whole into the abdomen through which the entrails were pulled out into a large cauldron. This was done with either flint or bronze knifes. Their screams and ramblings were said to be prophetic.
I usually bring this up when people go overboard re: freedom of worship...
Add the $80 bil in weapons we left in Afghanistan. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Yet they'll call AR-15's a "weapon of war".
Really it's a war on our weapons, to disarm us, so they're free to go about warmongering and taking more of our rights - and expecting us to pay for it.
Playing Devil's attorney-at-large, there are a couple of other perfectly logical reasons for leaving the equipment. (Logical, not good.)
It creates a need for replacements, meaning the brass gets new gear and kick-backs from the manufacturers.
It makes the incumbent look bad, which could easily be worth $80bn to general staff not best pleased with his controllers and owners.
And most insidious: it makes sure the taliban, the opium gangs and others are far too well armed for Russia, China, India, Pakistan or Iran to even consider making any moves.
It's the same reason many EU nations sends stuff to Ukraine:
It's surplus, the replacements are already ordered and in the pipeline, it looks good politically, it's a black eye to the russians, and also very important it gets them empirical data from real-life field testing (same reason Sweden's been in the PFP with the US for decades: our troops get actual combat experience, which is something no training can compensate for).
Cynical, mybe, but this is how the sausage is made.
Oh no, cynicism is part of a critical thinking set for times like these. This seems logical to me.
Clearly the 100k/yr plus drug OD deaths are clearly not enough in the US. We need more product. Having an open border doesn't meet demand.
However, I submit to the court, with all due respect, that the aforementioned sausages, could just as well be credited to a dipshit commander in chief.
You can make the sausage the good way, or the bad way.
For instance, say the equipment had been brought home and the servicemen from Afhanistan been relocated to border patrol duties along the southern border and south/west coast. Same cost, or slightly lower, than keeping them in Afghanistan, but a lot more direct gain for the US as such.
Then again, that would deprive the Democrats of millions of new voters...
You don't need my crystal ball for that. It has already happened many times in Ukraine against NATO forces.
US portable Stinger missiles captured by the Donbass forces from UkroNazis were used to shoot down 6 NATO helicopters that were sent to Mariupol to rescue NATO commanders trapped in AzovStal bunkers!!!
PS: The helicopters were all full of NATO commanders and were shut down after taking off.
But, we can send 40B to Nazis....
And Saudi, and Egypt, and Israel, and...
Do you ever wonder how much taxes could be dropped in your nation, if you stopped funding nations what doesn't need aid, just to help secure contracts to US businesses?
If we didn't pay taxes, who would bomb the roads?
It's okay if it's just drones doing the dirty work...
Or when Noble Peace Prize winners shoot up hospitals with AC-130U gunships, blowing some 42 people to bits and dismembering and injuring some 30 others with Gatling guns and 40MM Bofors cannons.
https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth
Report immediately for punishment to the Disobedience Governance Board.
Makes me sick.
Just like all the Pulitzers for bald-face lies
Road death in the US is 12 fatalities per 100 000 citizens in 2021, or 42 915.
Fatalities from guns was 38 390 of which 24 432 were suicides, in 2018 according to the CDC (why is the CDC tallying gun deaths?).
Using progressive logic, we can thus conclude that removing roads and/or private vehicle ownership saves lives. Because who /really/ needs to own a car, apart from very few people working for governement and big corporations?
You should e-mail that line to the White House, see if Team Biden picks it up for Novembah. <honk>
Just what I need, to make it onto another list...
Taxes are irrelevant when the government has a money printer.
What happens if that money printer burns a rod?
Hopefully the end of fiat currency and inflation.
That is the nub of the problem. Don't forget Nixon, et al promised that the suspension of the fiat "fix" was only temporary
that's no fun. then there wouldn't be so much unnecessary death in the world.
I thought you liked medieval shit?!
Well.... I really shouldn't but since it's a morbid interest:
Iron Age is even more hard core. Here are a few examples:
Among the germanic tribes, rape was punished by pounding a blunt stake through the thorax of the offender and into the ground, in such a way as he died slowly.
Prisoners of war, if they were celts or southerners (romans and such) were often drugged with plants giving them hallucinations before being sacrificed; their genitals were cut away in such a manner as to leave a gaping whole into the abdomen through which the entrails were pulled out into a large cauldron. This was done with either flint or bronze knifes. Their screams and ramblings were said to be prophetic.
I usually bring this up when people go overboard re: freedom of worship...
Freedom of worship ends where my junk begins.
mic drop
Oh no. I love it when you comment on this stuff.
On my side, I have a morbid fascination learning about a serial killers mindset.
If it makes you feel any better that 40B will be worthless in about 60 days.
someday, a percent of the weapons going to ukraine will be shot at us!
Add the $80 bil in weapons we left in Afghanistan. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Yet they'll call AR-15's a "weapon of war".
Really it's a war on our weapons, to disarm us, so they're free to go about warmongering and taking more of our rights - and expecting us to pay for it.
Playing Devil's attorney-at-large, there are a couple of other perfectly logical reasons for leaving the equipment. (Logical, not good.)
It creates a need for replacements, meaning the brass gets new gear and kick-backs from the manufacturers.
It makes the incumbent look bad, which could easily be worth $80bn to general staff not best pleased with his controllers and owners.
And most insidious: it makes sure the taliban, the opium gangs and others are far too well armed for Russia, China, India, Pakistan or Iran to even consider making any moves.
It's the same reason many EU nations sends stuff to Ukraine:
It's surplus, the replacements are already ordered and in the pipeline, it looks good politically, it's a black eye to the russians, and also very important it gets them empirical data from real-life field testing (same reason Sweden's been in the PFP with the US for decades: our troops get actual combat experience, which is something no training can compensate for).
Cynical, mybe, but this is how the sausage is made.
Oh no, cynicism is part of a critical thinking set for times like these. This seems logical to me.
Clearly the 100k/yr plus drug OD deaths are clearly not enough in the US. We need more product. Having an open border doesn't meet demand.
However, I submit to the court, with all due respect, that the aforementioned sausages, could just as well be credited to a dipshit commander in chief.
Oh aye, that last sentence certainly is truth.
You can make the sausage the good way, or the bad way.
For instance, say the equipment had been brought home and the servicemen from Afhanistan been relocated to border patrol duties along the southern border and south/west coast. Same cost, or slightly lower, than keeping them in Afghanistan, but a lot more direct gain for the US as such.
Then again, that would deprive the Democrats of millions of new voters...
2nd paragraph true and funny
You don't need my crystal ball for that. It has already happened many times in Ukraine against NATO forces.
US portable Stinger missiles captured by the Donbass forces from UkroNazis were used to shoot down 6 NATO helicopters that were sent to Mariupol to rescue NATO commanders trapped in AzovStal bunkers!!!
PS: The helicopters were all full of NATO commanders and were shut down after taking off.
SMH.
Hahaha
... but - fair enough - these are the "good" not-Zs :P....
Not-Zs! Bloody brilliant! I am stealing that!
In all candor, I got that from Gonzalo Lira, who got it from Moon of Alabama :)...
it was brilliant Hubris. You're not gonna get enough credit for it
The US sent $54 billion and the EU and Japan sent $10billion...
The publicized $40billion is just because it was tied to a congressional bill...
UKroNazis are very rich now!!!
It's probably a money laundering operation. Biden likes those
Absolutely true.
But that's nothing compared to the $5.9 Trillions printed out of thin by the Fed to support a PCR-Test plandemic!!!
The penultimate linchpin to the masks
Walls are immoral
And raaacist too!
What a convenient tool that is, eh?
Bingo!!
Yeah, but....that was cash, not a card. ЁЯШЙЁЯШКЁЯШЛ