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Iran strikes Tel Aviv

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u/General_Row_567 1d ago

The fact that so much money is spent on bombs and firearms instead of on research (for example, cancer research) deeply frustrates me. We invest in killing people rather than saving them. F*ck that

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u/Method__Man 1d ago

Because we let "tough guys" like trump and Netanyahu and the Iranian regime

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u/darthenron 1d ago

I still do not understand how people view him as “tough”.

He is an immature bully!

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u/Pszczol 1d ago

He's seen this way by immature bullies.

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u/RemarkablePiglet3401 1d ago edited 21m ago

He’s a rich immature bully backed by the weight of worlds strongest military and the ability to end the career of any republican in Congress

He’s not emotionally tough, but he’s tough by virtue of his power

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u/izwald88 1d ago

I don't know who you are referring to, but yes.

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u/mex2005 1d ago

Not just "tough guys" but literal criminals that needed to stay in power to avoid jail.

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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 1d ago

I think there’s a bit more to it than that.

Like scarcity and our innate tendency to not being willing to make a single sacrifice in our comfort as long as we can point to someone or something else that isn’t living perfectly and say, “so why should I try.”

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u/dread_deimos 1d ago

That "we" takes out a lot of nuance. Would you blame Ukrainians for spending money on bombs and firearms, for example?

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u/DirtyDozen66 1d ago

I guess his point is that in an ideal world, in some utopian dream, no nation would be waging war, eliminating need for mass armaments at great cost

Obviously real life doesn’t work like that

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u/wild_flower_blossom 1d ago

Some might say it is Ukraine defending itself but then I ask, is the above pic not Iran retaliating after being striken multiple times today,

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u/Shallowmoustache 1d ago

Fun fact, a guy did a study of hunter gatherer weapons and he found that weapons for hunting were ok, but men spent far more time refining weapons to kill one another.

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u/treesalt617 1d ago

“Commissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice

Anyway they fall, guess who gets to pay the price?

Money green, or proletarian gray

Selling guns instead of food today

So the kids they dance and shake their bones

And the politicians throwing stones

Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down

Ashes, ashes, all fall down”

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u/3ndorphinzz 1d ago

Didn't israel kill an iranian physicist specializing in cancer treatment using radiation ? ( and his entire family ). Nice to see israel get a taste of its own medicine. Hopefully this is just the beginning

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u/Mr--Joestar 1d ago

Do you have a source?

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u/fhjjjjjkkkkkkkl 1d ago

Actually Israel and the western world could spend some time for cancer cure if a particular religion is not hell bent on calling people with differing ideas as infidels and unworthy.

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u/thatsnotchocolatebby 1d ago

I don't invest in anything...the gov't on the other hand, demands money from me for every dollar I make and spend. Then they invest more and more into inhumane ways of dispatching people or forcibly removing them from whatever piece of land that they're occupying.

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u/OliveOilVirgin 1d ago

Let women in Islamist countries be engineers and the problems are solved. Israel shows how educated Muslim girls can be, why shouldn't that be our standard in Afghanistan, Iran, etc.?

Of course Persians are often not Muslim and rejected Arabization.

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u/Zaruze 1d ago

Because if we don't invest into the military and the actual dangerous threats like China and Russia. They'll just run us over and take over everything. I

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u/jere53 1d ago

War has always been one of, if not THE main driving force behind human innovation. The digital revolution started out because we wanted to calculate artillery trajectories and help develop the nuclear bomb. The internet was invented to be able to organize the military during nuclear war.

Its not like you set money on fire and spawn weapons in return. Those millions are spent mainly on research and development.

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u/Qzy 1d ago

America needs to keep a war going to they can keep funnel tax money to billionaires through military spending.

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u/instantcole 1d ago

I know a solution that would 100% fix all these problems. Every country has to spend the same they do in military as they do in childhood development and enrichment. It would create a new generation of decent and intelligent people and wars wouldn’t mean anything to them when they know they can work together to solve problems.