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To make the planet, the world, a better place for Americans. Your apparent lack of tolerance for things that do not directly serve your self interest is short
by maxerickson 2y ago
To make the planet, the world, a better place for Americans.
Your apparent lack of tolerance for things that do not directly serve your self interest is short sighted and foolhardy. It's sad that your way of thinking has carried the day in the US.
- koolba 2y agoTheres nothing charitable or noble about donating other people’s money. If you feel these causes are worthy, donate your own money privately.
- mmooss 2y agoThe 'other people' agree to it, via the democratic process. It's not stolen money.
- maxerickson 2y agoPromoting US interests isn't "donating". Some of the spending probably does fit that description, but I bet if we had a truth oracle that could actually tell us, it would be a lot less than you think.
- DrillShopper 2y agoI already do
- LastTrain 2y agoAll taxes are theft then?
- aaronharnly 2y agoWe live in a polity. That polity can be generous, well-regarded, respected, feared, and despised. The admixture of those attitudes affects our polity’s ability to pursue its interests. (I also happen to think that our polity should assist the least fortunate on its own merits, but you may not)
- forgetfreeman 2y agoYou're going to feel really weird when, in response to the US's waning engagement with global geopolitics, a bunch of countries form trade organizations and jettison their dollar holdings. Kinda like how a bunch of dairy and grain farmers felt when they realized the "welfare" programs they loved to bitch about were actually poorly camouflaged agricultural subsidies. Whoops.
- MarcelOlsz 2y ago>To make the planet, the world, a better place for Americans. What does this mean?
- Aeolun 2y agoIt probably means transgender Americans can visit those countries without being crucified (figuratively or literally)?
- DrillShopper 2y agoIt'd be nice if transgender Americans could live in America without being crucified (figuratively or literally).
- MarcelOlsz 2y agoWho cares? Work on your own country.
- Aeolun 2y agoI think the point is rather that they don’t want to, and that you (or the previous administration anyway), did.
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- maxerickson 2y agoSad!
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- DrillShopper 2y agoCool, I want $0 of my tax dollars going to fuck over Latin America when the people of a country there elect anybody slightly to the left of Genghis Khan. I want $0 of my tax dollars going to bombs to Israel I want $0 of my tax dollars spent on military bases abroad. Let's curtail the big stuff and then we can pinch the pennies, or at least let's compromise and do both.
- unclad5968 2y agoI lack tolerance because I think the government shouldn't support activist movements in foreign countries?