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Congrats on not being brown, or from a third world country
I am both brown and from a third world country. You fucked us over with Trump.
The slaves didn't care that Lincoln said in his debates with Douglas that whites were superior to blacks and that he supported an Illinois law against miscegenation. They cared that he removed them from bondage. Smart people take whatever progress they can get.
Republicans destroying USAID is expected to kill how many millions of brown people in third world countries? How many children unvaccinated and uneducated?
But both sides apparently are the same
USAID caused more damage than help, I am glad trump destroyed it, altho for the wrong reasons.
"Yay for more starving children, yippee!"
Ghoul.
Less debt traps, coups, lobbying, etc as well.
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLJle95iZI
Personally, I'm just seeing the us do less coups. Just weaker excuses for the coups they perform.
USAID killed more brown kids in third world countries than most US programs. It was built by the CIA to destabilize countries and foment dissidence towards unfriendly governments (that usually aren't able to provide for their citizens because of US sanctions anyway). Let's not pretend it is bad for the world that this is gone; it is just amazing there are no longer any intelligent republicans that understand US foreign policy and allowed it to go away.
Both sides aren't as similar anymore, as in Republicans literally stopped paying attention to the intelligence community and what they do to project US military imperialist power across the world and accidentally are helping the rest of the world break free from US imperialism; but 'both sides' want the exact same thing, ones just no longer intelligent enough to hide it behind doublespeak.
Seriously pretending USAID was a good thing is like pretending the NED promotes democracy or the US has ever been the victim in any conflict.
Missed your username, naturally you think feeding the hungry is an evil CIA plot.
Not that you actually care about the lives of brown people in 3rd world countries except as a way to generate outrage, but 92 million lives saved is the estimate.
Don't need to trust them. You can trust the literal CIA when their staff says USAID helps them achieve in the open what they used to do covertly and thus freeing resources from the agency (to REALLY focus on the unspeakably evil shit)
'Feeding the hungry' is an evil CIA plot when the US State department made them hungry.
And yes, as a brown person now in a 3rd world country (technically second world, but anything not white is third world to you people), I do care about the crimes the US does to the country I've been adopted into; including what USAID has done.
Pretending any thing the US has ever done has been done out of benevolence is, at best, pure willful ignorance. Ask someone in a country that has been affected by USAID why USAID was necessary sometime. Go on.
The US messed up most of Latin America. USAID makes things better. Removing USAID makes things worse. It doesn't matter whether it is out of benevolence (the real reason is that making Latin America better means the US doesn't have to deal with a migrant crisis). What matters is that it's better than the alternative.
Then maybe you shouldn't keep using that language. You're the one that introduced it during your first comment
They don't do it for benevolence. They do it for the soft power that appearing benevolent gives them. Fucked up motives but still a net positive.