I don’t watch cable news and I don’t pay attention to Jeff Teidrich or whoever so I don’t know where this bullshit is coming from. At least one person responding is nominally anti-genocide, so I don’t think that’s the reason. Another came back with something about the funding bill for FEMA as if it’s a gotcha.

What’s their logic?

  • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Ok I get that they’re different funds, different bills, whatever. I don’t really care how the sausage of the federal budget gets made, just the results. Stafford Beer said “The purpose of a system is what it does.” And right now the American system of government is to kill people in the Middle East. The same Congress said “meh, not right now” to disaster relief, and “hell yeah!” to genocide. I don’t see a lot of daylight between the two parties on the issue of genocide.

    I’m also inclined to agree with Eisenhower on this one:

    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

    • EndOfLine@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      To stay focused on your original question, this is why people think statements comparing disaster relief to genocide is a Republican talking point.

      The conversation has shifted from who voted for or against providing federal assistance to how the US uses its military and the genocide being committed by Isreal. Without trying to take a side on either topic, this sort of misdirection is the purpose of such statements.

        • EndOfLine@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          15 days ago

          To keep this on topic:

          You asked why people say that it is a “right wing taking point” when you say “it’s fucked up that more money is going to Isntreal than to hurricane relief” and the answer is that you are using a topic Republicans don’t want scrutinized as you counter point thus directing the conversation away from what Republicans are trying to avoid. You could have used health care, education, VA benefits, or something more ambiguous. Instead you use an active topic that could erode Republican support and steer the conversation away from a Republican sore spot and towards a Democrat sore spot.

          That is why some people are calling it out as a “right wing taking point”. I’m simply trying to answer your question.