• kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      This makes me so furious.

      Literally every domestic violence study shows a pet being one of the biggest reasons an abused woman stays in a relationship right behind children. And the animal and children are often abuse targets too!

      This will put the US even further behind in one of it’s most shameful measurements, but, hey it might shave a couple thousand dollars off a multi-trillion dollar deficit entirely created by the military industrial complex, so fuck 'em.

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        it might shave a couple thousand dollars off a multi-trillion dollar deficit

        Maybe on one balance sheet. On the total accounting of the nation, this will be harmful.

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          That’s how modern businesses people think though: As long as their department has green numbers, they literally don’t care if their actions cause the company a a whole to collapse. And these guys are trying to run a country like a business.