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That might be a cultural issue then. From what I see in the USA people don’t even trust their own family members.
it could also just be experience.
The USA seems like a hellscape.
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it could also just be experience.
The USA seems like a hellscape.
most places are in their own ways, and wonderful and beautiful in others.
America seems to have flipped from exporting the ‘American Dream’ to the ‘American Nightmare’, so it’s a lot more in people’s face right now, but frankly every country has significant issues right now.
one of those ‘hard to see the mote in one’s own eye’ type of situations usually. except in some third world countries, it’s often pretty obvious then hah.
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#83My Facebook feed is full of unhinged content from random pages I never followed or interacted with. I'd be fine with some edgy content, but there's limits to what I'd consider acceptable. Most recently I see these "memes" where it's literally just an image of Elon with a hand pointing a gun at him, and a caption saying suggesting he should be murdered. The most worrying part is that I don't know if this sentiment is…
The norm of discouraging political violence has been eroded for quite some time. It's been common for US pro-gun politicians to use faces of their enemies as targets, and occasionally face-in-gunsight as political advertising. Then there's incidents like Kyle Rittenhouse and Luigi Mangione (naming individuals from both sides), and US states making it explicitly legal to hit protestors with cars. As well as the longst…
> Eventually an American will independently reinvent the car bomb
Does Timothy McVeigh count?
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Why would that be a good thing? Sounds like a bad thing to me
It may sound like a bad thing for the American citizens that cherish imperialism and for the compradors here in Eastern Europe who directly profit from said American imperialism, but for the rest of us, normal people (both in the US and in Eastern Europe and other such parts of the American Empire) seeing USAID and NED gone is a gift from Heaven.
You still didn't explain why you think that.
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1% ??? that can't be true. the DoD's personel budget, by itself is 2.7% of the total budget for the whole federal government.
I was wrong it’s 6.6% of the budget https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-ref... If his goal is to cut 10% of the employees That 10% is less than 1% of the budget.
Ah, thank you. That's helpful.
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6% seems suspect. I would expect it to be higher... at least in the 20% to 30% range. Do you have a source?
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60235#:~:text=In%20fiscal%20... FY 2022 spending was around $6.75 trillion, civilian pay was $271 billion, or around 4% of the spending for that year. You'll find the numbers have been hovering around 4-5% for quite a while.
Ah, ok. Thank you. If you add in the 2.7% for military personel (which doesn't seem to be included here) then you get to about 6-7% of total spending.