I keep thinking that instead of spending approximately $1B a day attacking Iran - killing, maiming, hurting people, poisoning the ground, damaging infrastructure, creating a future humanitarian criteria, what if, everyday, we dropped a $1B in cash in $50 bundles?
Would we have a better outcome?
rich_sasha 3 hours ago [-]
I keep thinking what the world would look like if the Bush wars didn't happen and the money went instead into global development - green energy transition, education, healthcare. How much solar and nuclear does 1.2T USD buy you?
But then I take off my red communist beret off and salute the stars and stripes and remember what really matters.
krapp 1 hours ago [-]
Freedom isn't free. It's got a hefty fuckin' fee.
RhysU 2 hours ago [-]
We ran this experiment already. Obama handed them $1.7B in cash [1]. Not a good outcome.
That money went to the Mullahs, not the ordinary people.
RhysU 22 minutes ago [-]
Any significant transfer to the ordinary people will flow, in large part, to the government.
Putting cash into a somewhat closed system is particularly inflationary.
So, this well-meaning humanitarian idea of cash transfer (a) funds an authoritarian regime while (b) adding inflation woes to the people it's trying to help.
hackingonempty 5 hours ago [-]
Taking money in taxes and giving it to poor people is the worst outcome for American Conservatives. This way the money goes to contractors that provide materials and services to wage war.
tjpnz 2 hours ago [-]
Trump would have to find another distraction from the allegations that he sexually assaulted a minor. This just seemed easier in his mind.
burnt-resistor 5 hours ago [-]
But how would billionaires exploit that to stay in power, artificially create more scarcity and uncertainty, and make more money?
orwin 1 hours ago [-]
By the way, the '30k' protestors killed numbers I've heard from US media was fake. OSINT numbers of 15k death is way more likely, and the number from HRANA is 7k confirmed, 11k to be confirmed [0], 50k inprisonned (of which it seems a lot will be executed, which IMHO is worse, and liberating them would have been a more correct, if flimsy, ground for invasion than the current excuse)
This on top of everything else. Goodbye American empire. It was nice while it lasted.
bestouff 4 hours ago [-]
Maybe you're too young to remember but it was the exact same thing for the war in Irak.
inemesitaffia 1 hours ago [-]
He was threatened by Iran though.
solid_fuel 5 hours ago [-]
Because congress is controlled by the Republican party and the Republicans are authoritarians who have bent the knee to Donald Trump, elevating him over their country and sworn duty.
bingogo 6 hours ago [-]
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Bender 6 hours ago [-]
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danny_codes 6 hours ago [-]
What did I even read. More tinfoil for this man’s hat!
Bender 6 hours ago [-]
Don't wrinkle my tinfoil, it messes up the reception of the metal DMT elves! This is nothing really, I have conspiracy theories [spoilers] that would make Duncan Trussell and Alex Jones roll their eyes.
notrealyme123 6 hours ago [-]
Either LLM free hallucinations or a markov-chain.
kdheiwns 6 hours ago [-]
The only time you set violent criminals loose on another country is when you desire genocide of the people of that country.
cobbzilla 6 hours ago [-]
Australia turned out kinda OK
Bender 6 hours ago [-]
Historically accurate but in this case mini-genocide of bunker dwellers, missiles and Marvel comic collections.
Rendered at 11:00:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Would we have a better outcome?
But then I take off my red communist beret off and salute the stars and stripes and remember what really matters.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/united-states-government-fd411341...
Putting cash into a somewhat closed system is particularly inflationary.
So, this well-meaning humanitarian idea of cash transfer (a) funds an authoritarian regime while (b) adding inflation woes to the people it's trying to help.
[0] https://www.en-hrana.org/the-crimson-winter-a-50-day-record-...
This on top of everything else. Goodbye American empire. It was nice while it lasted.