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The second article breaks down some other spending later on.

It mostly goes to charter schools.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-plot-against-public-education-111630/

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/bill-gates-plans-to-invest-in-charter-schools-big-weak-spot-special-education/2017/10

The guy who puts billions of dollars into privatizing schools?

Why don't they trot out Dick Cheney to endorse USAID?

Do you really believe everything in the USSR was dim and depressing? Do you also think everything is Mexico is tinted yellow?

What do you think would happen if he started doing things the people able to recall him didn't like?

It wasn't bad when it was a 5 dollar burger.

Do they still hand out temp bans for upvoting spicy leftwing content?

4 years from now, when democrats are running on building the wall, mass deportations, getting tough on crime, banning trans people from public spaces, and continuing whatever war Trump starts, you will be telling anyone telling the democrats that this is unpopular "shut up, this really is super popular and the democrats really can win by adopting the republican platform from 4 years ago".

People knew that these protests would suppress democratic voters

The notion that the reason the genocide was unpopular because of the protestors is absurd. The protesters were responding to an incredibly unpopular thing, not causing it to be incredibly unpopular.

would be unlikely to sway the current administration

The previous administration stopped running and put Kamala in when they saw they had no pathway to victory, so they're capable of making changes when they know they have no alternative. It was only the "vote blue no matter who" crowd who allowed them to live under the delusion they could win while trying to be republicans.

I voted PSL, I don't live in a swingstate.

If anti-genocide voters are powerful enough to sway the election, you should listen to us.

Even weeks after October 7th, I had libs demanding I pledge to vote blue whether they stop the genocide or not, even though the election was a year and a half away, instead of standing with us and demanding they stop the wildly unpopular thing they're doing.

I think deep down, you all understood that the democrats will never do what the people want, even if they know it will cost them the election.

Protestors made a poor decision

How else were they supposed to get the democrats to stop driving the bus off the cliff?

This was not an unforeseen consequence, everyone with a brain was screaming it from the rooftop, and now here we are.

If it was unforeseen, why do I keep seeing liberals blaming the people who spent 4 years screaming what would happen from the rooftop, while the democrats spent 4 years either trying to be republicans or whining about how powerless they were instead using every measure at their disposal to do what the people whose votes they need are telling them to do?

It took trump all of a day to enact hundreds of life-changing policies. Don't give me some horseshit about how the president of the united states was powerless.

Yes, it was definitely the fault of the people protesting genocide and telling the democrats the things they're doing are incredibly unpopular, stop trying to be republicans, and not the democrats who told us to fuck off.

Really, if nobody protested, genocide would have been super popular and Kamala definitely would have won.

Sure are lot of liberals feeling smug about the most marginalized people in society being harmed these days. Something about scratch a liberal?

No, ironically the one on the right was running at a loss for ages. If you were the only driver in a town, you could get UberEats to pay you to deliver food to yourself.

Can we do 2 adult men and a bear?

Archeologists after looking at literally anything: Looks like a calendar. Or maybe a religious object. Or maybe a calendar of religions significance.

It's not that ceremonial, like AUS, Canada has a Governor General appointed by the crown.

In 1975, the Governor General unilaterally removed Labor from power and put the Liberals in power. Canada's Governor General has the same power.

I mean Reagan gave medals to the guys who shot down an Iranian passenger jet and eulogized the nun-raping Contras. But yeah, it's unusual for the president to display such callousness, they usually have the common sense to pretend to care, after making decisions that end the lives of hundreds of thousands to millions of children.

This country is so cooked.

Anyone who wouldn't pick the bear does not deserve bears.

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