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    or if the condoms were parte of the plan

    Ding ding ding, this is the best possible thing. The other that it’s complete made up

    Knowing how the conservative club communicates, I’m oretty sure that st best there was a $250 dollar pack of condooms in there. Leaving out details like “it was 0.1% of the package, 99.9% wre different items” is just normal business practice for the Republican party

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      Not made up 99% certain. Gaza used to have a huge problem with birth control pills being sent to them by governments. Like ludicrous amounts. They’d expire and they didn’t have a way to safely utilize them (it’s basically hormones, cannot dump it in the sea or whatever)

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    “Our team concluded that the most effective birth control is being a frustrated loner and jerking off.”

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    The DOGE found that there were $50 million dollars of tax money going to Gaza. Some small part of that apparently has to do with condoms, so they’re using it as justification that all government grant programs should be halted immediately. This will effect people’s jobs, schools, and numerous other programs beneficial to the American public, but it’s ok because they stopped the condoms

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    Wait I thought the racists wanted less brown people they’re really sending mixed messages here…

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        Have you been to Israel? They go out of their way not to exploit Palestinians for labour. Most of the Israeli labor class is imported from Thailand.

        Its pretty crazy and shows just how genocidal those people are. They literally want them all dead.

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        Well no, you add children to no resources and no shelter and you get demoralization and greater overpopulation and a noticable impact on crime and life span.

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          Sounds like future slaves to me. They - the billionaires - want to kill most of us worldwide and enslave the rest.

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      Bombs and bullets tend to be more effective than condoms.

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        In a broad sense this is inaccurate - war has been around as long as humans, and yet we were on an exponential population growth curve until the demographic transitions started.

        Over the last century we as a species have significantly reduced child mortality, improved education, infrastructure, overall quality of life, and established reproductive health initiatives that supply condoms and sex education!

        These advancements cause the local mortality rate to plummet. Then the following generation gets to reproductive age but has much less offspring, and the reproductive rate falls farther than the mortality rate did.

        This is called the “demographic transition” and has occurred across dramatically different cultures, environments, and economies.

        This is not universal or inevitable across the globe but the impact is so significant that global population as a whole is currently heading towards a plateau!

        Therefore condoms, reproductive healthcare, and distributed economic growth are more effective at reducing population growth than bombs and bullets.

        Developing a nation is literally more cost-efficient than destroying it. For the species. Not for the people selling the bombs.

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          The problem with that is they’re not trying to “develop” Gaza… at least not for the people living there.

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            True! It’s just another of the many ways that evil is counterproductive to its own interests.

            Helping groups of humans that bigots don’t like would literally result in less humans that bigots don’t like in the world.

            But they can’t help the wrong humans! Oh no! They have to hurt those humans! And so they leave those humans in the socioeconomic conditions that maintain exponential population growth indefinitely

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              Yup… assholes gonna asshole. It did seem like we were getting better for awhile, but the news lately shows us not much has changed.

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        The results of a century long proxy war in the middle east seems to beg to differ. The UN in 1994 held a meeting in Cairo about using women’s education as a method of reducing rapidly growing populations across the world most notably in the middle east.

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    Full article

    DOGE says it stopped millions of dollars meant for condoms in Gaza By Casey Harper | The Center Square

    (The Center Square) – White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at the White House press briefing Tuesday that the administration had just stopped millions in taxpayer dollars from paying for condoms for those in Gaza.

    Leavitt said the finding came as a result of the pause in federal funding for a range of federal efforts, including foreign aid payments, so they can be reviewed.

    That pause has sparked pushback and criticism for the Trump administration as many federal efforts ground to a halt. Leavitt, however, pointed to the Gaza condoms as proof of the necessity of the pause.

    “DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza,” Leavitt said. “That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.”

    It is unclear if the entire $50 million was for condoms, which would be an incredible sum for a population of that size, or if the condoms were just part of a $50 million spending plan. According to media reports, Hamas militants used condoms as balloons and have tied explosives to them in previous attacks.

    Leavitt said they also stopped $37 million that was about to be sent to the World Health Organization. Trump signed an executive order last week to pull the U.S. out of WHO.

    “So that is what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of tax dollars,” she added.

    Elon Musk, who now heads DOGE, wrote on X that the finding was just the "tip of [the] iceberg.”

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      They ruin everything. Pepe, Doge, Tesla; fucking Tolkien rolling over in his grave over Anduril and Palantir.

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    When we said “it’s a fucking genocide in Gaza”, they might have misunderstood which word was meant to be emphasized.

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    I am super confused about the whole thing.

    This is literally a perfect fit for this community.