• brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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      Yeah, and it comes with an additional $26,000,000,000 to continue the mass butchery of innocent men, women, and children in support of a genocide that eclipses what Russia is doing.

      It also comes with banning the largest platform for pro-Palestinian content…

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              It’s still one package, mate. The fact that they voted on the Israel part separately is irrelevant when the vote fucking passed anyway.

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                No they are separate packages. It’s not possible to vote on things separately if they are one package.

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                  The foreign aid package passed on Saturday also includes: - $26.4bn (£21.34bn) in military support for Israel, with $9.1bn (£7.36bn) of that allocated to humanitarian aid for Gaza - $8.1bn (£6.55bn) in funding for allies in the Asia-Pacific, including Taiwan, to “counter communist China”.

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      The same bill included billions for Israel. You can’t separate the 2; they’re literally the same funding package.

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          I never said you can’t; that’s your choice to make whether you can compartmentalize these from each other on an emotional level.

          But whether you are happy for Ukraine or not, on a factual level you cannot ignore that this bill’s passage is also furthering a genocide.

          Unless you are openly valuing the lives of Ukranians over the lives of Palestinians, I’m not sure you can say the bill’s passage is ultimately a good thing.