I like taxes. I want them to fund things in my community. I don’t want them paying for the deaths of an entire people.
It’s an arms sale.
…using the $4 billion per year we give them on the condition they use it to buy weapons from us. Sooo…
Okay, I refuse to have my tax funded weapons to be used for any genocide, paid or otherwise. Sorry we needed to clarify.
Bernie should have been president.
I wish Bernie would weaponize the filibuster the way Rand Paul does to block these things. I’m glad his heart is in the right place and I’m glad he does these things, but he doesn’t want to play dirty and it’s 2024, you need to play dirty when they’re willing to.
My dude, Bernie did a 8.5 hour filibuster and was coherent and on point the whole time, no phone book reading https://youtu.be/pm6qy_9E0rY
That’s sort of my point…
You don’t need to do that to filibuster anymore. And Rand Paul doesn’t.
If anything could get the Democrats to actually get rid of the filibuster, it would be blocking weapons for genocide.
The problem with using the filibuster is that it only works when you know the other side doesn’t have 67% in the senate. With both the democratic and republican parties being in the pocket of AIPAC, I suspect they could easily get the votes to break Bernie’s filibuster.
It’ll at least get them on the record so they can be the bad guys in the documentary later.
Maybe, but I feel like it’s worth a try.
Hey isnt that the money for Ukraine ?!
Aipac fuming
This guy has a consistent habit of being on the right side of history.
Politicians hate him for his one simple trick
It’s not a ‘sale’. It’s a handout to the welfare apartheid state, while Americans are wondering why their roads are falling apart, their education sucks and no universal health care.
Tell that to the arms companies that are supplying about 5 bil worth of stuff for 20 bil of taxpayer’s money
It is a sale. US policy now is get the hell away from the Middle East. If Israel wants to fight, we can sell them weapons, but we won’t be sending our soldiers to fight their wars. This is why we also pushing so hard for EVs.
As for roads and education that’s actually covered local government and local taxes.
The reason we don’t have universal healthcare is because Republicans consistently block it (they even trying over and over remove ACA). Universal healthcare not only wouldn’t cost us more it would actually be cheaper to what we have right now.
we won’t be sending our soldiers to fight their wars
Lol sure.
we also pushing so hard for EVs
Lol Part Deux. Yes, America is leading the way in EV adoption while phasing out big, gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs as rapidly as humanly possible.
Universal healthcare not only wouldn’t cost us more it would actually be cheaper to what we have right now.
Congratulations on not being completely wrong in your comment.
It is a sale.
If I give you $400 per week for 5 weeks and tell you to spend it at my store, and you come in and buy $2000 worth of stuff… did I actually make a sale?
A government is not a business and doesn’t operate as one.
This is why, for example if government starts spending money to improve infrastructure, like fixing bridges, building rail etc it causes GDP to grow. This is also the reason when during recession there’s a lot of projects like that. It simulates the economy.
But please think about the shareholders!
It won’t work, but bless his actual heart for trying.
How much can he hold up the sale if the rest of the senators are on board?
Not. Bernie is just posturing. Controlled opposition means pretending to oppose something when it doesn’t matter but supporting Biden when push comes to shove.
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If there is one thing you can accuse Bernie of, it is definitely not being a good human.
Edit: Welp I totally fucked up and said that wrong and then went to sleep. I intended that to be a double negative and missed the double part. I caucused for Bernie and I think he is one of the most amazing people to ever live. Sorry guys, I goofed big time and I deserve the downvotes for my fuck up.
Ooof, this is why I don’t play with grammatical structure before bedtime.
Also that’s why you should avoid using double negatives.
But I like living dangerously…just not before bedtime.
You might not understand where you are saying such wrong things.
Can you elaborate that?
What? How? When?
Think you’re missing a “nt” or have an extra “not” there…
Edit: don’t worry too much about it, happens to the best of us 😁
Weak troll bait. Great job refusing to elaborate
Great job refusing to elaborate
Some people aren’t on Lemmy 24/7 and can take a while to respond.
To give you the benefit of the doubt, which I don’t think you deserve, homie got several replies immediately. They’re obviously a troll, and apparently so are you
ETA: lmao you’re a fucking Russian foreign actor, looking at your post history. Why did I bother replying to a government bot
Yes, everyone on Lemmy except you is a Russian foreign actor. Sorry you had to find out this way.
They’re obviously a troll
They probably just made a typo.
Edit: Everyone loves Bernie, so it’s probably just a typo. But even if it’s not, why would that suggest that they’re a troll? Isn’t it possible that they just don’t like Bernie? Maybe they’re a Clinton-stan, or a Zionist. Why assume they’re a troll? I don’t see any trolling in their comment history.
Not every opinion you disagree with is a troll. This is insane. The paranoia on Lemmy.world about trolls is off the charts.
You were right!
I had a feeling that the polyamourous Oregonian who watches Supernatural and campaigns for ranked choice voting might be a fan of Bernie.
If Hillary’s primary team hasn’t taken over the DNC, we’d be coming out of term 2 of Bernie with one of the most progressive Supreme Courts in modern history…
Like just stop for a second and think about how much shit would be different if we took the slam dunk of Bernie against trump in 2016, instead of trying to cram Hillary Clinton down America’s throats.
We were this fucking close to a functional society
But instead the corporate side of the party would rather lose an election and blame Sanders and the Greens for losing. Same thing in 2000. Nader gave Gore a list of policies and said he’d drop out and endorse him if he just promised to implement just 2 of those policies. Instead of doing that, he chose to lose, and then 9/11 and the Iraq war happened, setting off an unprecedented loss of civil liberties and law enforcement abuses under Bush (and I would still say that Bush Jr was probably worse than Trump in terms of body counts and terrible policies that are still in place).
He would rather be on the left side though.
He supported the bombing of civilians in Yugoslavia.
Thank you, Senator Bernard Sanders. You rock and you’re my hero.
With more weapoms shipments being sent since Oct 7th, than days have passed since Oct 7th, it’s absolutely time for prompt action. I admire Mr. Sanders and his resolve. With this resolution, maybe we can prevent another 30k deaths in nearly 10 mons time. This is a bold undertaking, reflecting the collective will of most other countries that condemn the Palestinian genocide. Well done.
Give it all to Ukraine instead.
Fuck Israel. Fuck putin.
I see this differently. For decades US was involved in the Middle East. Trying to preserve peace and of course get the sweet sweet oil. As we know it failed. Peace isn’t easy when the fighting sides’ goal is to wipe out each other.
US decided that enough is enough, and is very open saying that it wants or of it. It pushes EVs and so is EU.
Bibi is trying to start a war in the region, hoping that it will force US to get into yet another war. US is not taking the bait and its position is that if Israel wants a war, we can sell them weapons, but they are on their own.
This is contrast to trump who openly advocates to get our soldiers involved to help Israel.
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“I will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists.”
That’s not the same as “I will help Israel with reaching their goals”. It is clear that what she was saying is that if Iran or Iran-backed proxies attack US military they will get a “proportionate” response.
Convince Israel that the Palestinians have resettled in Russia.
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Lets go Bernieee
