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âIran is run by theocratic psychopaths who only understand the language of violence!â
And they marry children instead of just molesting them like an upstanding Christian!
lumpenproletariatOh no Americans marry their children too.
Between 2000 and 2021, some 315,000Â minorswere legally married in the United States.[23]Â The vast majority of child marriages (some 86%) were between a minor girl and an adult man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States
queermunist she/herChild marriage is legal in most US states.
âŚbut itâs okay to rape them thoughâŚ.crazy F%$KS!
And wouldnât you know it? The same states where child marriage is legal are also states where marital rape is treated as legally distinct from non-marital rape. In Iowa, for example, subsection (2) of article 709.4 Sexual abuse in third degree, excludes sexual acts committed by adults with children as young as 12, provided the parties are âcohabiting as husband and wife.â
God damn, not even the Vatican has laws like that now. Their age of consent went from 12 to 18 recently. I believe the marriage exception got raised to 14, which is still kind of wild, but not Iowa levels. Many of those laws are in place for, and exceptional to, accomodating marriages that occured in a culture where it is acceptable but the marriage is obviously no longer in that country/culture.
For those that consider marriage âa thingâ these laws are intended to balance the respect of marriage and respect the immaturity of a young mind and body. For those, like me, that recognise there is literally no purpose for marriage, theyâre entirely insane laws to go that low.
The Venn diagram of the states where you can marry a child and those where Trump won is a circle.Â
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mycodesucksThis is nonsense.
Potatoes have an INCREDIBLE amount of self-awareness for something without a nervous system.
Anything with that many eyes is definitely self-aware!
âď¸-never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.
*malice **stupidity
Brahvim(It was intentionalâŚ!)
vpolNo, he just doesnât count you as people.
I seriously doubt he considers Iranian people people either, maybe heâs talking about rich Iranians? Maybe Iran isnât as good at pandering to the wealthy as the US is?
These are truly the times when the USA citizens should learn some tricks of government management from the France.
You mean they should let somebody crown himself as emperor and start a land war in Asia?
macnielNever. Get involved in a land war in Asia!
Yeah everyone here likes to bring up guillotines and the French Revolution, but itâs like none of them know what happened after.
tino_408For anyone wanting verification.
While the quote is paraphrased but he absolutely said this.
SpruceBringsteenCoulda funded the healthcare subsidies twice over for the 200b theyâre asking for
Red0ctoberLol, that would have helped poor people. Canât have that.
They could fund a public healthcare system twice over with the money the federal government is already spending providing piece meal health care through several inefficient programs. The war crime fund could solve the housing problem though.
Th government is using health care to force people to continue working. They know they can fund it. They also know if healthcare becomes free in the US, there are lots of people who can just stop working. If they made healthcare free Iâd likely be able to stop working by age 45
Easily cover half of the student loan forgiveness plans that would have been in place for 1-3 decades vs a few months of expensesâŚ
obnomusIâm not fron usa but did he literally said that?
Itâs paraphrased, but yes, he said that.
Tbf itâs not exactly same as US. Iran is using those weapons in self-defense instead of invading random countries an ocean + sea + two geographic regions away.
Also, weâre apparently low on munitions, so weâre failing at even spending our money on that.
No wonder the Pentagon hasnât passed an audit in a decade or something!
Actually the reason is the US uses 3M$ anti-missile missiles to intercept 20k$ drones. It was obvious from the start they would run out of them way while Iran would keep producing more of their drones (plus the ones they get from Russia).
Itâs quite unbelievable they the US were so confident in their capabilities they didnât bother to learn anything from the war in Ukraine, where swarms of cheap drones have replaced advanced but costly missiles for years now.
So the money may be genuinely used on weapons (and well, lobsters and steaksâŚ). Itâs just spent stupid.
I would love it if Iran asked Pete Hegseth to check with the 2006 Time Magazine person of the year with who does that to their country/citizens.
From the creator of:
âWeâre fighting religious fanatics who seek a nuclear capability in order for some religious Armageddonâ
Does he hear himself? Like I feel like weâre living in a sketch show.
DarkFutureDoes this dipshit realize heâll never be safe in public again? Probably anywhere on Earth.
And I donât think he gets lifetime tax payer funded Secret Service protection like America is prepared to give a felon rapist pedophile.
Itâs mockery. He knows there are no consequences for him, these press briefings are just going through the motions.
SubArcticTundraThey truly have reached the same point that Putin has, where you can invert any statement of theirs to get the actual truth
Every time I see Hegseths face I am glad it is not Matthew Miller
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ObiniceWho is âheâ and what did he say?
This feels like a post that should include a link or an imageâŚ
thethunderwolf
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To be fair, US spending money on weapons isnât the reason you donât have the social services the rest of us have.
Itâs due to malice and corruption.
Remember, youâre paying (in both Tax contributions AND private insurance) DOUBLE the amount for your not public, not universal healthcare than the rest of us do.
I swear the whole â*if we didnât make bombs we could afford healthcareâ and the conservative obverse of âif we werenât paying for NATO we could afford healthcare*â dual shticks are designed to keep you from actually questioning why the hell youâre paying DOUBLE what everyone else does on Healthcare for less service.
From my POV, the âif we didnt spend so much on military we could have healthcareâ argument boils down to someone holding 2 opinions and presenting it as 1.
Opinion 1: War is bad, we should spend less money on the military and stop creating new wars
Opinion 2: Healthcare should be government subsidized (Universal Healthcare). If we are already anti-war, letâs put the savings from not doing war into healthcare.
I understand your point completely though. Most Americans are paying more than their fair share, while the oligarchy clan pays less than one of us at the bottom. We (the 99%) should be able to get healthcare by taxing appropriately and getting rid of the corruption at the top. It shouldnt be tied to military spending.
I think what youâre saying is correct. It âwidens the lensâ of the issues out to the system being corrupt which is completely true. I dont think most people have faith we can fix the system (at least within the next 2-6 years), so we are coping with smaller thoughts of just having the option to be anti war and pro UHC.
This way youâll lose support of those people who do not think war is bad.
We are already spending too much for healthcare and should switch to public healthcare even just to decrease our spending seems an argument that the vast majority of people can agree with, regardless of their ideas on other topics.
It definitely is possible for a country to have expensive explodey toys and proper healthcare, food and housing, if the system was public, with minimal corruption and wealth appropriately taxed to fund itâŚ
I bring up the argument âwe could fund x instead of $y on militaryâ because I think it helps give people a sense of the scale of the huge cost of war. Trump is asking for $200 billion from Congress for his Middle East excursion (so far), that amount can more than eliminate hunger and homelessness.
Yeah, that comment hit me in the nuts too.
The US is about to hit 20 years of the federal minimum wage being $7 an hour and change. 2/3 of the US states still adhere to it as their standard, and several states have laws against local municipalities enacting their own local wage laws.
Meanwhile the war budget (and letâs be honest, calling it a âdefenseâ budget is bullshit) has increased by a few percentage points every single year since 2001.
The poverty here is by design, same as itâs always been.
Bless his heart. His self awareness was surgically removed when he was a baby.
No, definitely donât bless his heart
âDo you have an irony deficiency?"- Joseph in the Handmaidâs Tale