Political Memes

Its more fascist America funds national socialist Israel.

A lot of the money goes towards to illegal colonial settlements. These cost far more in security and infrastructure and the social services there are much more expensive to get more people to go there for "good roads and schools".

Even before the genocide Israel has been heavily subsidized by the US and other allies.

As UNRWA has been covering much of the humanitarian obligations Israel has as an occupying force over the past half century the global community has been subsidizing Israel with dozens of billions too.

What’s the logic behind this statement? Is it just that nukes are bad?

Remember when the right thought The Jewish bankers controlled the world. They made whole documentaries on it and everything. Crazy how fast the beliefs of all groups shift from year to year.

The right wing part focuses on the eschaton with Israel in their death cult.

Israel spends something like $24 on their defense.

I assume there's supposed to be a B on the end of that figure. But it's funny picturing them spending just twenty-four bucks.

Imagine spending that 3 billions on American health care workers.. rather than Raytheon

This claim about the t-shirts seems so outrageous that I had to look into it to see if there was more there. Looking into it further I found the article you screen shot from CBS news March 23, 2009, as well as an identical copy on NBC news for the same day. Neither article had a credited author, but the CBS article referenced a Haaretz Daily link (seen in your screen shot) and the NBC article referenced the Associate Press, neither website still hosts such an article.

So next I turned to the Wayback Machine where I was able to find the Haaretz article, but not the Associated Press article.

The Haaretz article amounts to some of the worst journalistic documentation I've ever seen. There's one picture of a shirt which the journalist claims was ordered by a soldier and the identities of everyone involved have been kept anonymous. From a young arab man who supervises the making of the shirts to a Givati soldier, the only source for all of this is Uri Blau who wrote the article.

Alongside this I found an Al Jazeera video where they followed up on the same story where they show a catalogue with the same image used in Uri Blau's article which claims that the shirts were ordered by soldiers. In the video they say they visited the shop but the owner refused to explain the shirts and were told to leave by police.

April 1, 2009, Uri Blau posted another article referencing himself and stating that the IDF now bans soldiers from wearing such shirts even on private time, but again provides no sources or pictures.

Honestly, this could all be true, but it's so fucking sloppy that for all we know Uri Blau made up all of this because there is no substantial proof. It's the journalistic professionalism of a tabloid.

What makes it worse is that because this slop has been out in the public long enough it's existence is actually referenced as proof. "Oh, there was an article written about this 10 years ago so this definitely happened," but the original article itself wasn't proof?

Here is an example on reddit where the OP shared the picture and story a few months ago. When asked for sources they shared a Huffpost and NBC article as separate sources which are both identical and reference the original Haaretz article.

Money doesn’t have labels on it. If they don’t need to spend their own money on military they can spend it on other things. So you could argue the US is at least indirectly funding these things.

Which is worse. Like it’s not that the US is subsidizing something good like higher education, but rather bombs and guns for faster genocide?

Israel is more likely to, if American subsidies were cut, to strip their social benefits than reduce the operations of a core aspect of their state.

Opportunity cost, and all that jazz. Think of it this way - if you were hell-bent on spending 100$ on art supplies per month, and some fellow came up and said "I'll give you 50$ of art supplies per month", what that really does is effectively free up 50$ for whatever else you might desire to use it for.

In Texas, it's literally illegal for governments to buy products or award contracts to anyone who denounces the actions of Israel.

Like: when I was analyzing bids for janitorial services for City Hall, I was legally required to vett the bidders' stances on Israel.

I was unfamiliar with the national dog of Argentina. I thought it was strange that it looks like a Staffordshire Terrier, so I looked it up and was delighted to learn that it's called the "Dogo Argentinio." Perfect fucking name, I love it.