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intersectionalpraxis · 5 months

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this cop also did this to another protestor:

i remember when Instagram mostly banned me from my account for an entire year after posting about police brutality and its' links to white supremacy and institutionalized violence -it was during the height of the BLM movement after George Floyd was murdered. i remember calling out ex-co-workers at the time and people on social media i was mutuals with at the time for saying 'but it's not all cops, some are good,' and my response to that, and will always be: policing systems do MORE harm than good in communities. cops get little to zero training and are allowed to bear arms and have a licences to maim, injure, and kill people (most of whom, are NOT threats). and it's beyond unacceptable. the amount of funding these fucking systems get too when it can be allocated to programs that ACTUALLY do good.

defund the police.

end the occupation and free palestine!

*also, a few people have noted this, but yes, I believe it appears that the cop spat on the memorial candles too. and the fact he will never be fired and told to give up his badge for doing such a heinous thing is just despicable* -and yes all cops are bad.

#feminist #feminism #israel is an apartheid state #palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸#social justice #free gaza #free palestine #israel is committing genocide #intersectionality #defund the police #defund the cops #defund the military #police brutality #protest #protect palestine

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politijohn · 9 months

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#end all wars #imperialism #western imperialism #politics #bernie sanders #us politics #government #the left #progressive #twitter post #current events #democrats #military industrial complex #defund the military

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 8 months

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#us politics #twitter #tweet #x #college debt #student debt #cancel student debt #student debt forgiveness #us military #defund the military #department of defense #military industrial complex #2022 #social mobility #impoverished adolescents

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joyboythehopepunk · 8 months

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utopia

all nazis and fascists poof off the planet

world hunger and poverty is eradicated

whatever tech/info the government is hiding is used to revive the planet's flora/fauna

whatever tech/info the govt is hiding is used to cure diseases of all kind

no more capitalism

self-sustainability and secret tech for energy

no more military industrial complex

no more police and prisons

everyone has free healthcare, safety, and freedom

free education

no borders

anyone who wants to leave the planet can

i know this sounds almost insane. but consider that the us government alone "loses" trillions of dollars. also consider the reality of alien contact/recovered tech.

we could be living in .. 4024 right now.

doesn't that blow your mind?

#hopepunk #solarpunk #conspiracy #ufo #government #black budget projects #star trek #military industrial complex #prison industrial complex #utopia #voidpunk #no borders #fuck the police #defund the military #defund the police

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lilithism1848 · 2 months

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 10 months

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A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation Wednesday that would require the Pentagon to return a portion of its enormous and ever-growing budget to the Treasury Department if it fails another audit in the coming fiscal year.

The Audit the Pentagon Act, an updated version of legislation first introduced in 2021, comes amid mounting concerns over rampant price gouging by military contractors and other forms of waste and abuse at an agency that's set to receive at least $842 billion for fiscal year 2024.

"The Pentagon and the military-industrial complex have been plagued by a massive amount of waste, fraud, and financial mismanagement for decades. That is absolutely unacceptable," Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement as he unveiled the bill alongside Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

"If we are serious about spending taxpayer dollars wisely and effectively," said Sanders, "we have got to end the absurdity of the Pentagon being the only agency in the federal government that has never passed an independent audit."

In December, the Pentagon flunked its fifth consecutive audit, unable to account for more than 60% of its $3.5 trillion in total assets.

But congressional appropriators appear largely unphased as they prepare to raise the agency's budget to record levels, with some working to increase it beyond the topline set by the recently approved debt ceiling agreement. Watchdogs have warned that the deal includes a loophole that hawkish lawmakers could use to further inflate the Pentagon budget under the guise of aiding Ukraine.

Late Wednesday, following a lengthy markup session, the House Armed Services Committee passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which proposes a total military budget of $886 billion. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) was the only committee member to vote no.

A huge chunk of the Pentagon's budget for next year is likely to go to profitable private contractors, which make a killing charging the federal government exorbitant sums for weapons and miscellaneous items, from toilet seats to ashtrays to coffee makers.

"Defense contractors are lining their pockets with taxpayer money while the Pentagon fails time and time again to pass an independent audit. It's a broken system," said Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a co-sponsor of the new bill. "We need to compel the Department of Defense to take fraud and mismanagement seriously—and we need Congress to stop inflating our nation's near-trillion-dollar defense budget."

"Putting the wants of contractors over the needs of our communities," he added, "isn't going to make our country any safer."

If passed, the Audit the Pentagon Act of 2023 would force every component of the Defense Department that fails an audit in fiscal year 2024 to return 1% of its budget to the Treasury Department.

A fact sheet released by Sanders' office argues that "the need for this audit is clear," pointing to a Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq report estimating that "$31-60 billion had been lost to fraud and waste."

"Separately, the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction reported that the Pentagon could not account for $45 billion in funding for reconstruction projects," the fact sheet notes. "A recent Ernst & Young audit of the Defense Logistics Agency found that it could not properly account for some $800 million in construction projects. CBS News recently reported that defense contractors were routinely overcharging the Pentagon—and the American taxpayer—by nearly 40-50%, and sometimes as high as 4,451%."

Further examples of the Pentagon's waste and accounting failures abound.

Last month, the Government Accountability Office released a report concluding that the Pentagon can't account for F-35 parts worth millions of dollars.

Earlier this week, as The Washington Post reported, the Pentagon said it "uncovered a significant accounting error that led it to overvalue the amount of military equipment it sent to Ukraine since Russia's invasion last year—by $6.2 billion."

"The 'valuation errors,' as a Pentagon spokeswoman put it, will allow the Pentagon to send more weapons to Ukraine now before going to Congress to request more money," the Post noted.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chair of the Senate Finance Committee and a supporter of the Audit the Pentagon Act, said Wednesday that "taxpayers can't keep writing blank checks—they deserve long-overdue transparency from the Pentagon about wasteful defense spending."

"If the Department of Defense cannot conduct a clean audit, as required by law," said Wyden, "Congress should impose tough financial consequences to hold the Pentagon accountable for mismanaging taxpayer money."

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delightfuldetectivestrawberry · 4 months

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"The US State Department has approved the potential sale of tank cartridges and related equipment to Israel for an estimated $106.5 million, the Pentagon says."

Dear US citizens. If this doesnt make you angry, i dont know what will. Your money is spent by your government to fund an army that doesnt need anymore equipments for war (bc of how much your government already paid to this army). Your money that should be spent on the betterment of your people, for education, food, jobs, housing is being spent to kill children. To kill women and men, humans like you. Keep the skin color and religion aside. They are all human beings. If your government doesnt care about that part, what makes you think they care about anyone else?

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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#tweet #tweets #twitter #defunding #defund the police #defund the military #defund #public health #public transportation #public schools #reproductive justice #reproductive freedom #reproductive rights #reproductive choice #reproductive health #college #social security #medicare for all #medicaid

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arguablysomaya · 2 years

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#shut up somaya #defund the military #american military #death to america #american politics #leftist #military industrial complex #communism #leftism #socialism #anarchism

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dear-future-ai · 1 year

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Dear Future AI,

Denesting and governmental oversight.

Recently, I saw a youtube video on how many programmers are against nesting their code, and it made me think of how when we say defund the police and defund the military we actually want to restructure the institutions.

In programming having one function perform a single task, make the code run more smoothly, less cluttered, and easier to read. There are two major ways to rearrange code to prevent nesting too deep: extraction and inversion.

Extraction is removing a bit from a long line of code, and making it its own separate function.

In restructuring defense budgets this would appear as taking the public sector in charge of GPS out of our military and making it its own department: The military would still be allowed to access GPS, but it would now be budgeted and operated separately. Similarly any military contract that doesn't necessarily need militarized uses: i.e. robotics.

Inversion is more complicated, it readdresses the order of the functions and prompts a return earlier. This would appear as prioritizing funding therapy and rehabilitation for drug related crimes and misdemeanors, instead of prioritizing imprisonment. While rehabilitation and recovery is generally a part of jail time, if we focused on it before immediately jumping to trial and prosecution, we could save time, money, energy, and resources. Jail would still be an option, but rehabilitation would no longer be nested under jail, and would now serve a slightly different function under the umbrella of the justice system. This would allow the courts and police more time to respond to actual crimes and emergencies.

Sometimes the solution to major problems isn't to keep throwing fuel on the fire, but rather to declutter and approach it differently. —Or in the cases above, perhaps just rewriting the code with UI and UX in mind.

#dear future ai #defund the police #defund the military #programming #nesting #rehabilitation #code #UI #UX #programmer #youtube #codeaesthetic #military #police #nonviolent resistance #gps tracking #robotics #public sector

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chronicsilliness · 3 months

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i hate military time like i just want to know the time stop making me do mathhh

#defund the military #can’t do math #addition #subtraction

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intersectionalpraxis · 4 months

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politijohn · 9 months

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#politics #us politics #government #defund the military #military industrial complex #the left #end all wars #imperialism #news #current events #twitter post

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 11 months

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#us politics #twitter #tweet #conservatives #republicans #Democrats #defund the military #defund the dod #2023 #the pentagon #pentagon budget #welfare programs #child hunger #homelessness #poverty #sen. bernie sanders #vermont

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scorpion-flower · 1 year

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Gotta "love" it when pro lifers/ anti gun control/ racist/ sexist/ homophobic/ transphobic etc morons, stumble across my profile and reblog my stuff, adding their vitriol in the caption.

You can go f yourselves, you're not welcomed here 🖕

Edit: Fundies/TERFS/bootlickers are crying over this post and are falsely accusing me of being a pedo. And some others are threatening to stalk and kill me.

I have said it before and I'll say it again: Eat shit 😈🧡

#Scorpion-flower #We were the kings and the queues #Pro choice #Pro gun control #anti gun #defund the cops #defund the fbi #defund the military #defund the police #Terfs do not interact #anti radfem #Anti racism #anti sexism

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odd-god · 3 months

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Someone has to say it:

We either need all the bigots and fascists to move to Texas (thereby creating a mass exodus situation for those who live there probably)

OR we need to admit there are too many bigots and fascists who vote and/or are in positions of power. And do something about it

Like vetting all legislation/representatives that are anything like that.

(One of these is a reasonable option)

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