They get allocated, reallocated, and spent elsewhere

They don’t. You can’t tag a particular dollar and follow it as it leaves a taxpayer’s account, goes into a government account, gets allocated to a particular item of the budget, and then gets spent out again into the economy. When a dollar is taxed, it basically goes into a furnace and disappears. Separately, dollars are conjured out of thin air and sent into the economy by the government.

The amount of dollars thrown in the furnace in a given day are tallied, sure. But that doesn’t determine the amount of dollars the government can create, it only informs it. The government can create as many dollars as it likes at will.

Millennium Challenge, the perfect dessert after a good meal

I hope someday an unexpected outburst from the barrel of a gun causes him to lose his life.

An illegal, unprovoked, full-scale attack!

Go woke or go broke

‘Stabbed in the back’ myth is evolving!

‘Stabbed in the back’ evolved into: ‘Stabbed in the back by Jews’!

Now Mount Rainier is decorated with combat veterans.

I wish more German soldiers were punished for shooting Polish people [finger of the monkey’s paw curls]

God, this 1998-spaceship-flight-sim ass poster design I would really appreciate the nostalgia for that kind of zero-budget “labor of love by scifi nerds” aesthetic if it weren’t attached to one of the most expensive media projects in all of human history

If it came to that, and some rounding up minorities got domed, this type of guy would be the first to cry out against the use of violence

Was that just casually standing on top of his tank to take a fucking video with his phone?? Of rubble??? In enemy territory???

The clip that starts at 1:13, with the settler filming from his balcony, seeing a missile hit a couple of kilometers away, then stumbling back into his apartment, pulling back past his telescope, past his enormous TV and into a wide shot of his very nicely furnished apartment…

Firstly, it’s fucking sickening to see the luxury that these colonizers are living in next to the destitution of Gaza, even before it had been bombed completely to rubble. And out of his window is an entire street of high-rises presumably packed with apartments just like this one, every one of them occupied (in every sense of the word) with settler colonists here to live like lords on the back of Palestinian misery.

And secondly, this guy is going the fuck home. He’s here to live an opulent, carefree life, paid for by limitless free capital forged from the sweat and blood of the colonized, or else as a PMC holocaust technician inventing new and ingenious technologies of terror and oppression for the US Empire - being able to see missile impacts from your own front window suddenly changes that equation, by a lot. And every single person in every single luxurious apartment of those tall, tall tower blocks is doing the exact same math as him, right this very second.

From the Jordan to the Pacific, Palestine will be prolific

No more tiktoks at the beach for this one!

I’m sure she’ll be on the next plane home

Their laughable propagandistic ‘special military operation’

Our accurate and reasonable ‘limited ground incursion’

Damn, guess in the end the prayers ran out

Reminds me of that time a royal navy nuclear submarine was repaired with superglue