• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Short article but still hard to get through. The banal cruelty and pointlessness of all this…

    It’s roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can’t we just do that instead?

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      14 days ago

      It’s 2 years of the entire USAID budget that kept 100,000s of people alive and healthy. It’s 4 times the amount of money the President want from the taxpayers so he can “give it to charity.”

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      It’s roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can’t we just do that instead?

      😔 Because cruelty is the point.

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        I think for some of the scumbags in control the cruelty has gone far beyond a side effect of their hatred, and into a focus of how they validate themselves and one-up their friends. They need so badly to feel superior that they will do horrible things just to show that they can. That would help explain how blatant and comical things have been.

        They need to show that they are at the pinnacle of the group the law protects but does not bind.