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But, hey! Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is still holding on to power, having watched four POTUS leave office while he expands his country's size with US-made weapons and American taxpayer dollars, liquidating thousands and thousands of Palestinians along the way.

So, cheer up!


Israeli Settlers have murdered 1,244 Palestinians in the West Bank over the past three years (2023 - 2025), according to Oxfam's analysis of UN data.

Since 1948 under both Democratic and Republican Party administrations, the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer has sent the Labor and Likud governments of Israel, a prosperous and nuclear-armed country with world class universal healthcare for her residents, over $317.9bn, the most US economic aid given to any nation in the world.

In 2025 alone, the US sent Israel $12 billion which could have instead paid for 1,982,488 American families with one year's free groceries. That would have been a pragmatic use of American taxpayer dollars.

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1. Musk in 2025: AI Will Take All Jobs - complete BS, as usual...

So far, there has been little, if any ROI on enterprise AI rollouts, and companies found they are blowing their budgets by token-maxxing, and that was even before deploying agentic AI, when they don't know how many tokens the model's agents will burn doing requested tasks, and then get surprised with the bill:

fortune.com - "'The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employee': Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers" - 2026-06-14

* 18% of organizations now orchestrating multiple agents across workflows, up from 9% in the previous period
* A $0.04 chat can become a $1.20 orchestration when it requires tool retrieval, planning and subagents
* AI coding costs are expected to surpass average developer salaries by 2028
* Despite enterprises spending an average of $11.5 million on AI in 2026, most struggle to demonstrate any clear return on investment.

* Recent tests have shown Chinese models to be much cheaper "per task" (not necessarily per token) and do almost as good a job as best US models, like Mythos, that run on more advanced hardware.

2. ... But Standard of Living Won't Fall

True, but it's more of Musk selling "Utopian" future (remember "Occupy Mars!" or Hyperloop or "Saving the Earth with EVs and solar panels") if only everyone buys into his "vision" and his "X-tools" - recently merged with SpaceX, xAI has just been rebranded as SpaceXAI (makes it easier to hide financial losses from xAI / Grok / eX-Twitter etc):

fortune.com - Can Elon Musk really save the world? - 2023-09-23

The real reason that "standard of living" won't fall is not because of bogus "AI will take all jobs... but you will like it" and Musk's upselling non-workable dystopian "UBI" into Utopian "UHI" - typically, "standard of living" and employment has risen with new, revolutionary or evolutionary technology, while often displacing some occupations and jobs. "AI" is not that much different - more technologically advanced, better educated societies replace brawn with brains:

www.forbes.com - Ford Hiring 350 Engineers After AI Failed Shows Human Value In AI Era - 2026-06-30

geekspin.co - Unions are furious after GM replaces 1,000 workers with 50 cobots - 2026-06-23

3. Tesla CEO says work will soon be optional... - more BS, never worked, even when "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need" was fashionable - this is how it ends up:

en.wikipedia.org(The_Twilight_Zone) - To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone) (1962)

4. ... as AI takes over all labour. - as in the "Horseshoe theory" it's a fine line just where and how this Musk's dystopian vision turns into Musk's Utopian vision; see point 1.
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That's part of a trend of Southwestern states having to repay the federal government for SNAP benefits.

I love how DonorBot glosses over the amount of money owed, that doesn't mean anything.

Lumpers run around claiming California would be the Nth largest economy in the world, yet continues to short change the Federal government via fraud, mistakes, and just not paying its fairshare.

Lumpers will then claim California pays the fed more than it gets back, well it should just like income tax is progressive so should California contribute more than Mississippi.

Yet California continually comes up short. It has $20 billion in pandemic federal unemployment insurance debt. California is the only state that has not repaid this loan, so now federal payroll taxes on businesses are increasing annually until the balance is cleared.

IOW Californians are taxed even more because it doesn't repay its debt.

Think of what $1B dollars could do? Why thats USAID money right there.

Trump is wasting billions a day on a war with Iran and Turds is worried about poor people receiving assistance to buy food.

idk, he's certainly using assets that have already been paid for. My take is the military is learning how to fight with/against drone technology. This is probably a good thing.

The worry isn't about poor people receiving assistance you PortaPotty, but people that don't need assistance are getting paid.
People are literally stealing from the poor people, and you can't see it. You suffer from a fascinating blindness.

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