the number is misinformation, i apologize for the confusion. see the body text of the post for more info.
Thanks! You’re very correct; I’be updated the post and apologize for my failure!
Thank you! You are indeed correct and I have updated the post.


As comments quickly pointed out, there is no evidence of this $250b number. The account that posted this deleted it presumably because it’s a lie.
https://nitter.net/NotKreg/status/1943309615153766622#m
The most recent similar proposed legislation was in May 2024 and was indeed supported by Ted Cruz. While not specified explicitly, my understanding is that the total value of this would be around $15b but it has not passed.
$3b did pass via the FY 2025 omnibus and a further ~$12b of value provided via executive orders with Trump and Marco Rubio.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/14/us-news/white-house-strongly-opposes-bill-that-would-force-arms-shipments-to-israel/
I was thinking about deleting this post but I also want to own up to my mistake. I fell for bait while browsing memes, failing to critically think about the numbers involved. Thanks all who keep each other accountable I feel it’s an important lesson.
i feel like you skip every fourth word when reading my comments but i’m not too bothered because at least you are correct lol
Slaveholders’ crimes were downplayed and the history of the Confederacy rewritten to appear noble and unrelated to slavery. Some slaveholders were even compensated financially for the freeing of their slaves, while no freed people were compensated, ever.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
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i guess maybe you were meaning “that’s what we did” as advocating for slaveholder punishment where i interpreted it as actually doing it
either u are being sarcastic or u 180 degree misinterpreted my comment, we are saying the same thing? /confused
Not even true lol (You were alive immediately after the civil war wow!) Yeah and sadly slave owners literally received reparations when there should have been Nurembergs.
I adovacte for their survival, recovery, repentance, and penance in proportion to the weight of their crimes.
honestly very correct. someone else pointed out that even the worst of us states were only 70/30 maga.
call me a bleeding heart lib but i don’t celebrate the suffering of 10 people just because 7 of them asked for it. 🙃
Truth! And, if my understanding of history and sources are correct, Russian citizenry had even less say in their government or precipitating invasion than the average American.
Russian elections are like, crazy rigged. I’m sure our president is jealous.
yes. class consciousness is the most effective defense in culture war. it doesn’t mean ignoring it, of course.
i would never and have never advocated for ignoring the material, social, or policy conditions that fall under the umbrella of “culture war.” and yet that’s something you made up and forced upon me with no evidence, argument, or logic. just emotions.
check out this thread because i am done feeding this emotional energy. https://lemmy.cafe/post/19968013/12353527 notice how the conversation exactly matches all of my positive care for people living under oppression and in no way reflects your made-up men of straw about “ignoring the culture war and trans people.”
and notice how other people in the thread are understanding, asking questions, and not calling names when there is confusion.
e; typo there was a random “your” in there my fault
It’s so sad. Voting age in the US is 18 for the record so even if we ignore the historic systemic voting barriers for older people and across generations, it’s also transparently malicious to blame teens, most of whom never voted once, for their deaths.
It excuses nothing.
Yes. :( Fortunately the mods and general vibe here are okay but Instagram and Reddit are rife with it. Twitter is… even worse.
Just wanted to put some love and acknowledgement out there in the face of that insanity. :)
Southerners are fully capable of making informed decisions, and at some point you just stop having sympathy for the ones who could choose to be better but don’t.
There’s another confusion! I don’t know where you got the idea that this post was about sympathy for bad people when explicitly it talks about good people in the post. Super important! This is about solidarity across class lines. I would never and have never denied this and all of my comments here reflect that.


edit: seems like some people interpret “full of” as a mathematical majority which, while it may or might not be true instance to instance, isn’t my intent in posting
feel free to swap in “has a lot of” if that’s more familiar language to you :)


stolen from https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3lsycugpu4k2t


idk if the “lie” claim is the best language they could have used since there seems to be a few sources supporting it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China
that said, obligatory fuck tankies but this is a good meme and fuck ICE.
EDIT CONTEXT: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/25/norwegian-tourist-jd-vance-meme/
ICE and CBP claim the guy was denied entry for drug use. I don’t fucking believe them personally after stories like Khaby Lame essentially being forced to self-deport after some racist MAGA kid decided personally getting him deported was a good move.
But u know we all about honesty in this joint so


no discourse in the comments please the answer to the discourse has already been solved by the vast majority of pride events like a decade and a half ago
click to view
def informed_consent(event): if event.is18plus: event.communicate_to_participants(“Event is 18+.”)
thank you and now we can all enjoy the meme together


genuinely is there an organization that does this (or similar)? i want to financially suport them or volunteer


disclaimer this is from circa 2020 but feels relevant to the people dancing to mariachi getting tear gassed today