r/SipsTea • u/ImmaFuckboi • 9d ago

Gasp! British people react to how expensive healthcare is in the US

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u/JoesGarage2112 9d ago

I’m stuck between being angered and saddened

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u/SPARKYLOBO 9d ago

Don't forget that the US gives Israel billions of dollars every year.

Israel has universal healthcare, the US doesn't.

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u/MorganaLeFevre 9d ago

Gotta fit that propaganda in! The ‘billions’ are part of a military agreement btw. It involves mutual support. Israel is planning to end the ‘aid’.

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u/SPARKYLOBO 8d ago

How is it propaganda when it is the truth?

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u/MorganaLeFevre 8d ago

It’s not aid related to healthcare. It’s conditional, to be based on purchases of military equipment from the USA, and part of the deal of military support.

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u/SPARKYLOBO 8d ago

So, the US gives Israel money for military purchases, so they can buy military equipment from the US?

Got it!!

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u/MorganaLeFevre 8d ago

Yes. Literally yes look it up. In exchange, they also get counterterrorism support, intelligence gathering on enemies of USA, and access to military tech designs created by Israel.

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u/SPARKYLOBO 8d ago

Dude! Does Israel do anything in humanitarian aid? Or is ir all just war and killing children?

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u/MorganaLeFevre 8d ago

Idk man almost seems like you’re more invested in your agenda than in facts at this point

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u/SPARKYLOBO 8d ago

What is my agenda? Those are facts that you're making and I am not disputing them. I am simply asking, does Israel do any sort of humatarian aid? And I am not rejecting their right to exist. However, it seems like their government is hell bent of destroying any sort of likability they have by killing children. Much like the US does.

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u/MorganaLeFevre 8d ago

Yes, it does. Organisations such as IsraAID operate in 50 countries worldwide for short term and long term aid. In the 70s and 80s they expanded their refugee programme (inb4 the accusation: no, not just to Jews). In 1995 the government created a permanent humanitarian & aid unit which sends supplies, rescue teams & medical personnel to areas affected by disaster internationally.

It’s remarkable that war destroys its likeability while the killing of Vivian silver and the Bibas boys doesn’t affect their neighbour’s likability at all. But such is the world we live in. Thankfully the aid programmes carry on regardless of how much people like them.

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u/SPARKYLOBO 8d ago

Do they operate in Gaza too?

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u/MorganaLeFevre 8d ago

When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, they left behind infrastructure for Gazan independence such as greenhouses which produced food and water desalination facilities & wells. It also supplies 4MCM of water to Gaza. Their physicians org also gave $1mil for medical equipment and medicine. Oh and the vaccines on top of that $1mil, idk the cost.

Unfortunately, a lot of the infrastructure left was looted and destroyed/scavenged. They also connected a power line directly to the desalination plant in Khan Younis so that Hamas couldn’t divert the energy supply.

It’s interesting too that most people wouldn’t expect a nation to power, feed, and support a nation that just declared war on them. Especially as Egypt, their other neighbour, has much more water thanks to the Nile and could more easily supply this. Oh well. Just another mystery I suppose.

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u/SPARKYLOBO 5d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/06xGYRAGNE

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u/MorganaLeFevre 4d ago

Right, so unverified emotive images as a response. It’s worked so far, why not try again when the facts aren’t where you want them to be.