• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Imagine how improved things would be if that $700 billion was spent improving the lives of regular people. Or, what if it was just used to pay the debt through taxes? Medicare for all? They clearly had the money to sqander.

        • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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          1 hour ago

          And rolling back things like marital rape laws. And perhaps we were a little hasty allowing women to have their own checking accounts (IN 1974). Etc…

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          To then discover people are so glued to their phone filled to the brim with anger inducing engagement, they don’t have any energy left over to meet people or even do the deed.