Those people are suffering because of the US. If not for the US they wouldn't even need aid.
This is soft power. The US demands things in return for that "aid". It's not aid whatsoever.
Germany lies within the EU so if you add 2 and 3 your argument falls apart.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Germany lies within the EU so if you add 2 and 3 your argument falls apart.

I'm sorry, I'm really not sure what this means. What does germany have to do with this?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The top donor thing you talked about...

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Do you mean that if we added the values given for two distinct entities together, they would be larger than that of a single entity? That's... sure, I'm not going to say that addition doesn't exist. But if you used that when compiling the above statistics, you wouldn't be comparing donations from distinct groups, and the meaning of the above statistic would be fundamentally changed.

It would be the contributions of all member states to the EC and then germany's contributions added together, vs a single country (the US).

Which has nothing to do with Yemen's human rights record, or the point I was making with that statistic, and is an intellectually valueless enterprise within that context.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The US gives more than 3x as much money to bomb gay people in Gaza as the total they give to "aid".

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Which was a central concept of my point, yes exactly.