2026: haha what profits the US military has literally spent ALL the money and blown through all of their weapons in order to cede control of the strait of hormuz, get their missile radars blown to shit by shahed drones, and abandon their military presence in southwest asia. the next move will be dismantling our meager health care and education systems to pay for a trade war with canada and a giant golden bitcoin bidet. chefs kiss
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War profits for healthcare? How about stop allowing profit from healthcare, run them as services for the public good, and we already pay more than enough taxes to treat everyone.
part of the reason why leftism is cool is that we are against the system, yeah.
That's not how it goes for Tyler Durden
A figment of a mentally illed corporate normie.
Boomer slop
we accept memes from all generations here bro
What about this is boomer slop? It's a little "enlightened centrist" (if you conflate liberals with the left, which let's not get started), sure, but most boomers are depicted on the right panel, and at least 2 of the 3 background images are old memes so not slop
She's not wrong, no reason to downvote her. The meme is actually based on a centrist facebook meme that I put a leftist twist on. It was used a lot as ragebait on reddit (not by me) and I thought it would be funny to repurpose it like this.

Agree to disagree I suppose. When I think of "boomer Facebook group" I don't think of them casually criticizing the police state or militaristic profiteering, and when I think of "slop" I think of things that are lazily generated by AI.
I don't see how you can say it isn't at least trying to be a centrist meme when "liberals think x, conservatives think y, they're both wrong and I'm a genius because I think z" is the oldest centrist meme template in the book
you disagree?
Government spending is not profit or loss.
The wealth of the US/euro empire is rooted in the exploitation of countries that are kept underdeveloped artificially through war or threats thereof. This is something that the liberals don't want to change as the palestinian genocide for instance clearly demonstrate. Their platform is only about spreading the wealth (that has been gotten through those exploitative means) more "equitably" among the population of the empire. That's what I mean by "war profits".
The wealth of the US/euro empire is rooted in the exploitation of countries that are kept underdeveloped artificially through war or threats thereof. This is something that the liberals don't want to change as the palestinian genocide for instance clearly demonstrate. Their platform is only about spreading the wealth (that has been gotten through those exploitative means) more "equitably" among the population of the empire. That's what I mean by "war profits".
You hear a lot of NATO liberals saying that the plunder from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere should go to welfare. This even happens on these sites.
You have to be living under a rock to not hear liberals day exactly that.
Give me a concrete example. I have never seen this, heard this, or known this.
People should care more about the people in their country than one across the world. American leftists should care about other American leftists MORE than a country across the world. Surely you don’t put fucking Gaza above YOU as a person! This is the stupidest fucking argument. If you don’t care about your own neighbor (let’s say they are just like you) then you don’t give a shit about Gaza. You need to help yourself before others. Come the fuck off it.
Unable to dedicate enough time to dissect particular examples, but, for example, places like lemmy.world are full of liberals who will tell you that NATO should keep going and maintain colonial subjugation of the Global South, but to provide its own people with better welfare.
I will be able to provide more examples later if that's not enough.
Hearsay until I see it, I've never seen it myself.
I envy you if you have seriously never seen liberals say that both NATO and welfare are good.
Here's a small case of them supporting NATO attacks on civilian vessels:
https://lemmy.ml/post/52245275
Here's a thread where a lot of them speak in support of NATO:
https://lemmy.ml/post/52292799
Dehumanization of the adversaries is not good. We have to be better than that.
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