Basically, the Likudnik government in Israel is a big welfare teat for the weapons industries. We the taxpayers see our money taken not to improve living conditions at home directly, but to subsidise selected harmful (weapons-making) industries by way of “aid to Israel”. Now, this helps the people who own those industries and are invested in them and work for them, but it doesn’t help the rest of us any — not like it would if it were invested in our health care system, or schools, libraries, public transit, carbon reduction.
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Be a politicians, have friends who work in arms manufacturing.
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Send aide in the form of money, taken from tax payers, to a different government.
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That government uses your donated taxes to buy arms from your buddy.
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Your now rich friends make your life easier with their freshly laundered money.
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The worst is the Bloc Quebecois
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First of all, it’s the principle of not participating in a literal fucking genocide. Second, Americans can do what they want to do without Canada continuing to send weapons to them to commit atrocities. Seems like a really low bar for anybody with even a shred of moral integrity.
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We just pretend what? Seems to me that the argument you’re trying to make here is if we don’t facilitate the genocide, then somebody else will.
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And yet, the fact of the matter remains that we couldn’t even pass this performative and toothless act. What does that say about our government?
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It will never cease to amaze how easy it is for some people to make excuses for participating in a genocide. Saying I will not be part of a genocide is itself a meaningful objective, and if you do not understand this simple truth then you’re truly lost.
We manage it with every country we trade weapons with except the US.
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Good enough for the law to apply equally.
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We should at least pretend to hold the US to the same standard as everyone else.
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What was the rationale?
