America is an imperial power, propping up dictators everywhere

ttystikk said:

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/02/trumps-support-and-praise-of-despots-is-central-to-the-u-s-tradition-not-a-deviation-from-it/

The truth is we are supporting monsters around the world, even to the point of overthrowing democratically elected governments.

The idea that we are the world's policeman, helping democracies emerge around the world is a complete fiction. The list of murderous despots we have and continue to press cheeks with is embarrassingly long.

Letting the monied elite run our political system is how we became the imperial power we are now rightly perceived to be around the world.

Our founding fathers lectured us sternly against allowing this to happen, but we've ignored them.

I know it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's time to see the truth of the kind of country America has become.

Discuss.

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Sounds like Cold War American foreign policy. "At least they're our dictators," an aide informed John F. Kennedy.

rkymtnman said:

how so? where i went to high school, we had zipcodes that were extremely wealthy and some dirt poor yet the school itself was one of the top in the state. everybody got the benefit of being a public school funded thru tax dollars.

i can see your point in some aspects where rich people might donate more than poor to a police dept and i guarantee that the response times would be a bit quicker in the richer neighborhoods. that's not a function of socialism, that's reality.

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Schools are funded differently throughout the states. State level funds only make up a portion of the total funds a school district receives. Other areas of taxation support school districts, such as property taxes (and in wealthier communities, this is the preferred method of local funding), sales taxes, tourism taxes, and specifically local school bonds.

In many of the poorer school districts, their students don't fare as well in their studies and on standardized tests, and so some states (especially the "bubba" states of the deep south and midwest) revoke state funding from those school districts. These districts already don't benefit from property taxes collected locally because few residents there own property and pay property taxes. Tourism and sale taxes also are much less considering that when eating out or traveling through such an area, people usually don't patronize what businesses exist near these poorer districts.

So if you live in a suburban area, chances are the schools will be much better funded. Schools need money to pay salaries for teachers and administrators, and they need money for all those jock straps and football helmets. It's no coincidence that the larger, well-funded school districts usually field the best athletic teams in those states. Athletic direcrors and football coaches from East Texas to Mississippi are some of highest paid public employees in those states.

Priorities.

Now all you have to do is follow the $$$$$$$ trail, to find your master's
Its fairly obvious when you join the dots
my interest in the stnuc started in 1973, when one was elected to the prime ministership of my country

Who do the socialist bow down to, and who gets the money

Yes UncleBuck a Jew or two might be involved, but even the Jews would shy away from this sort of shit, for it is not at all good for them , the spread of their arch enemy(supposedly)

History of the World is a wonderful thing and it explains all of what is going on today
why do you think they no longer teach much of it, its propaganda now

Yours sincerely a teenage Facebook poster, and pot head

DiogenesTheWiser said:

Sounds like Cold War American foreign policy. "At least they're our dictators," an aide informed John F. Kennedy.

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Our policy never changed, that's the point I'm making.

Unclebaldrick said:

Nah, I read in the paper (one of those little "what do you think?" pieces where they print your picture and up to 100 characters) that "America is just flexing it's muscles because we have gotten a little flabby." If you stop propping up dictators, you lose that ability and won't be able to prop them up when you really need one.

Of course, terrorism makes it far more complicated. A lot of people look back on the Cold Wart as 'when America was great'. There really was no standard as far as how bad a hombre a dictator had to be as long as they were willing to fight communism or anything resembling it. Now we do the same as long as they are not funding terrorism. We really should have known - did know, in fact - that this was coming. All those Cold War dictators suppressed Islam as much as they could. Shit was going to happen and will continue to happen - but maybe we should not have been the only ones with our finger in the dike. That's what a few planes crashing into a few buildings gets you.

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Especially when your told about it prior and don't do a thing.

What's going on in Syria?