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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 134 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Accurate except for the “instead” part. Road maintenance comes from local taxes, whereas military aid comes from federal taxes.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

Sorry about all the broken veterans with TBIs. We could have invested in better healthcare infrastructure, TBI treatment research even better armor and helmets for our troopers dealing routinely with IEDs. But instead we got experimental tanks with active camo, a shitty plane which we're phasing out and aid to Israel to perpetuate their ancient religious genocide program.

It's just that US soldiers are poor and expendible and people with money tell us who and what is important.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And there are literal laws of nature that would prevent that from ever changing.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, potholes in my area get fixed pretty quickly, because the local government takes its job relatively seriously.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Really hoping self-healing asphalt tech advances quickly in the next decade.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Please, not fixing potholes have been around longer than the current Palestinian/Israeli and also a completely stupid reduction of the complexity of this whole fucked up situation.

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There's nothing complex about it. Israel imprisons an entire people and every time the UN tries to do something about it the US vetoes it.

The "it's complex" excuse is used to have people look the other way by turning it into a hopeless situation.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

not fixing potholes have been around longer

They haven't been fixing potholes since 1949? Those potholes must be huge.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yup, longer than the US has been sending aid to Israel, which actually started in the 1970s. Sorry for introducing facts into your ragefest.

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It’d be way more effective if the road pictured wasn’t absolutely perfect and pothole free

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

For the meme, maybe, but IRL maybe the road is no as nice as that one section.

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Love the false equivalence. Your city taxes can't fix the potholes because your federal taxes pay for a military.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those federal taxes cannot be allocated to state funds which cannot then be allocated to city funds to maintain roads?

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

No because they must be spent to kill Palestinian children. Get your Merican priorities straight.

You're not wrong, but original point could still be right, depending in the road. There are many federal highways and interstates, where this equivalence makes sense. However most other roads are state, county or city owned.

[–] mingistech@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Federal tax funds the maintenance of the Interstate Highways.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do you see an interstate highway in the pic?

[–] mingistech@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Mobile billboards go where people are. I saw a Pro-Life billboard on a similar truck, where it was parked was not linked to the content on the sign.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

We send $5,000,000,000 in outright charity to Israel, not including what our legislators are about to fork over as soon as they get their stock portfolios situated in the best ways to profit from it.

That's $100,000,000 per state that could be used to fix potholes or help Americans in other ways, but we're silly geese who 100% support neglecting our own people in favor of war, so we're getting what we voted for.

[–] stevehobbes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

It’s been a closer to 3B for a while. Against a budget of $1.7T. It’s not even a rounding error.

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[–] Dewded@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Isn't this a photoshop? Boring Dystopia is a lot more poignant when the content it shows has some reality to it.

While the point the image is trying to make does have quite a bit of reality behind it, the shopping is to its detriment.

[–] Daqu@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Just put the babies in the potholes.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Baby bones don't have a high enough density and material integrity for that to be an appropriate solution.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not using enough. You've gotta re-pack the hole once compacted a bit.

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Sweet Photoshop champ.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The u.s destroyed half my country, killed tons of my people, bought up the wreckage and now owns us. But none of you gave a shit, cause the news didn't tell you to care

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 142 points 1 year ago

Yeah that doesn't really narrow it down.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's true for a lot of the states, let alone other extant sovereign nations.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] droans@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to his comment history, the US.

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Sounds about right

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

How are we supposed to know if the news doesn't tell us?

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

What country

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Well gotta spend money to make money I guess

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is literally true; heads are comfy in pits of sand.

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