• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    The DOGE found that there were $50 million dollars of tax money going to Gaza. Some small part of that apparently has to do with condoms, so they’re using it as justification that all government grant programs should be halted immediately. This will effect people’s jobs, schools, and numerous other programs beneficial to the American public, but it’s ok because they stopped the condoms

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      A future DOGE finding will show that ketchup is a luxury that American taxpayers shouldn’t be funding for any group of people under any circumstances. /s

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      No different than the DEA putting you in prison for 10 pounds of marijuana because you have a 10 pound bag of dirt and some kind of plant matter they can’t identify. Facts don’t matter to the government.

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        I mean, it makes a ton of sense to include condoms in aid, you don’t want people getting pregnant when there’s literally no functioning hospitals. Of course conservatives will say ‘just don’t have sex’ or whatever, but that’s just not how humans work.

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          This makes sense. And also makes it a lot worse that they’re using that as an excuse.

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            It’s probably also not $50m worth of condoms. It’s probably like a few grand, but you have to spend millions on distribution and security because obviously there’s no infrastructure there.

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    10 days ago

    Wait I thought the racists wanted less brown people they’re really sending mixed messages here…

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      10 days ago

      Bombs and bullets tend to be more effective than condoms.

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        The results of a century long proxy war in the middle east seems to beg to differ. The UN in 1994 held a meeting in Cairo about using women’s education as a method of reducing rapidly growing populations across the world most notably in the middle east.

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        Have you been to Israel? They go out of their way not to exploit Palestinians for labour. Most of the Israeli labor class is imported from Thailand.

        Its pretty crazy and shows just how genocidal those people are. They literally want them all dead.

      • Madison420@lemmy.world
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        Well no, you add children to no resources and no shelter and you get demoralization and greater overpopulation and a noticable impact on crime and life span.

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          Sounds like future slaves to me. They - the billionaires - want to kill most of us worldwide and enslave the rest.

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    I am super confused about the whole thing.

    This is literally a perfect fit for this community.

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    or if the condoms were parte of the plan

    Ding ding ding, this is the best possible thing. The other that it’s complete made up

    Knowing how the conservative club communicates, I’m oretty sure that st best there was a $250 dollar pack of condooms in there. Leaving out details like “it was 0.1% of the package, 99.9% wre different items” is just normal business practice for the Republican party