• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    The DOGE found that there were $50 million dollars of tax money going to Gaza. Some small part of that apparently has to do with condoms, so they’re using it as justification that all government grant programs should be halted immediately. This will effect people’s jobs, schools, and numerous other programs beneficial to the American public, but it’s ok because they stopped the condoms

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      A future DOGE finding will show that ketchup is a luxury that American taxpayers shouldn’t be funding for any group of people under any circumstances. /s

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      No different than the DEA putting you in prison for 10 pounds of marijuana because you have a 10 pound bag of dirt and some kind of plant matter they can’t identify. Facts don’t matter to the government.

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        I mean, it makes a ton of sense to include condoms in aid, you don’t want people getting pregnant when there’s literally no functioning hospitals. Of course conservatives will say ‘just don’t have sex’ or whatever, but that’s just not how humans work.

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          This makes sense. And also makes it a lot worse that they’re using that as an excuse.

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            It’s probably also not $50m worth of condoms. It’s probably like a few grand, but you have to spend millions on distribution and security because obviously there’s no infrastructure there.

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    Wait I thought the racists wanted less brown people they’re really sending mixed messages here…

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        Have you been to Israel? They go out of their way not to exploit Palestinians for labour. Most of the Israeli labor class is imported from Thailand.

        Its pretty crazy and shows just how genocidal those people are. They literally want them all dead.

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        Well no, you add children to no resources and no shelter and you get demoralization and greater overpopulation and a noticable impact on crime and life span.

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          Sounds like future slaves to me. They - the billionaires - want to kill most of us worldwide and enslave the rest.

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      Bombs and bullets tend to be more effective than condoms.

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        In a broad sense this is inaccurate - war has been around as long as humans, and yet we were on an exponential population growth curve until the demographic transitions started.

        Over the last century we as a species have significantly reduced child mortality, improved education, infrastructure, overall quality of life, and established reproductive health initiatives that supply condoms and sex education!

        These advancements cause the local mortality rate to plummet. Then the following generation gets to reproductive age but has much less offspring, and the reproductive rate falls farther than the mortality rate did.

        This is called the “demographic transition” and has occurred across dramatically different cultures, environments, and economies.

        This is not universal or inevitable across the globe but the impact is so significant that global population as a whole is currently heading towards a plateau!

        Therefore condoms, reproductive healthcare, and distributed economic growth are more effective at reducing population growth than bombs and bullets.

        Developing a nation is literally more cost-efficient than destroying it. For the species. Not for the people selling the bombs.

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          The problem with that is they’re not trying to “develop” Gaza… at least not for the people living there.

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            True! It’s just another of the many ways that evil is counterproductive to its own interests.

            Helping groups of humans that bigots don’t like would literally result in less humans that bigots don’t like in the world.

            But they can’t help the wrong humans! Oh no! They have to hurt those humans! And so they leave those humans in the socioeconomic conditions that maintain exponential population growth indefinitely

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              Yup… assholes gonna asshole. It did seem like we were getting better for awhile, but the news lately shows us not much has changed.

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      Call it an ancient torture device, and it all makes sense.

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      I’m sorry but she looks like the platonic ideal of the headline. Betty Bowers, take some notes.

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    I am super confused about the whole thing.

    This is literally a perfect fit for this community.

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      They ruin everything. Pepe, Doge, Tesla; fucking Tolkien rolling over in his grave over Anduril and Palantir.

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    When we said “it’s a fucking genocide in Gaza”, they might have misunderstood which word was meant to be emphasized.

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      Department of Government Efficiency. Headed by Elon Musk, the guy responsible for sending that crypto coin to the moon with a single tweet. This is America now. One big meme.

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      DOGE as in musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

      The, uh, illegal and unconstitutional “advisory” board that was set up to give oligarchs a seat at the table.

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        The, uh, illegal and unconstitutional “advisory” board that was set up to give oligarchs a seat at the table.

        Gonna get a LOT of mileage out of that one sentence.