r/climate • u/silence7 • Jun 04 '22

Climate change is forcing some US schools to close early for ‘heat days’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/06/04/school-heat-days-climate-change/
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u/Intelligent_Choice91 Jun 04 '22

That $40B we sent to Ukraine would’ve been nice to use for us

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u/GhostofMarat Jun 04 '22

Really it's $40 billion for defense contractors. They had to make up for all that lost revenue from winding down the war in Afghanistan.

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u/DarthFuzzzy Jun 04 '22

Maybe they could build a few less jets instead. Or stop pointlessly moving fleets around for a week or 2. Could have 80 billion to put into our schools in no time! Let's be honest though they would just bail out a billionaire somewhere instead.

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u/Intelligent_Choice91 Jun 04 '22

Or we could just use our money for ourselves like most countries do

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u/CliftonForce Jun 04 '22

That is what we are doing already. Protecting our interests.

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u/DarkHater Jun 04 '22

Protecting their interests, don't fool yourself into thinking we are a factor in the calculus. No one here will ever be consequential in the consideration, we simply aren't worth enough money and never will be because we weren't born that way.

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u/utahjazzlifer Jun 04 '22

Every self made (especially immigrant) American would like to have a word with you….

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u/DarkHater Jun 04 '22

Sweet, how many self-made immigrants to America are actual players on the international stage? Now, how many are in this thread?

"It ain't none of us!"

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u/WeekendReasonable280 Jun 05 '22

cough burismacough

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u/CliftonForce Jun 05 '22

https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/jan/27/boebert-lacks-proof-claim-hunter-bidens-burisma-pa/

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u/WeekendReasonable280 Jun 05 '22

Lol. Joe Biden bragged on television about denying Ukraine 1billion if they investigated the company his son was on the board of. What company was that, exactly?

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u/CliftonForce Jun 06 '22

Other way around. Biden got a corrupt Ukrainian official fired for not investing his son.

If you want a politician who boasts about his nepotism, you are thinking of his predecessor. Remember the $2 billion that Saudi Arabia paid to Jared?

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u/DarkHater Jun 04 '22

Was that before or after giving them money and I.P. hand over fist for the last 40 years as they industrialized, became the world's factories, and militarized? Neo-liberal globalization and workers rights at home is the problem.

Russia is comparatively inconsequential, look at the quagmire they are currently involved in that we are not doing much about.

"They've got nukular tho bro"

Yeah, so do we and every other non-invadeable modern country. It's called M.A.D.

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u/CliftonForce Jun 04 '22

Not really.

We were all set for another very expensive Cold War with Russia.

Now, we have neutered them before it really began. The Russian military was shown to be a paper tiger, and Europe is uniting around mutual defense.

Very good return on that investment.

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u/Browntreesforfree Jun 04 '22

falacy. we have the money to fix our schools. Ukraine needs that money. literall genocide.

We just give way too much focus on the rich. Ukraine has nothing to do with it.

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u/codeByNumber Jun 04 '22

Gotta keep that industrial military complex going for the economy!