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[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

@Confidant6198
"secular talk" is wrong here.

Musk is an absolute psychopath without any empathy. He doesn't need any excuse to sleep at night knowing all the harm he did to the world.

By destroying USAID, this devil just threw millions of people into starvation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd say destroying USAID is the one good thing they did. Long term mind you. I won't deny the short term effects of such an instant cutoff to these programs.

But USAID is primarily used to disrupt the economic systems of nations that the US exploits for cheap labor.

I'd quote the revolutionary Thomas Sankara

Those who come with wheat, millet, corn or milk, they are not helping us. Those who really want to help us can give us ploughs, tractors, fertilizers, insecticides, watering cans, drills and dams. That is how we would define food aid.

The US primarily uses its food aid to disrupt these nations from being self sustainable and force their industry into a single crop that is most beneficial for US capitalist to export.

So, while the shorterm is bad. The disconnection of these exploitative relationships are good.

Obviously it would be better if these programs were slowly removed. But continuing them for the next 4 years would be worse then ending them drastically.

Also, mind you, I don't think Trump even realizes why these programs exist to benefit the US exploitation of the third world. I think he sees them simply as "foreign aid". So his own ignorance of them actually ends up destroying an important part of US Imperialism by mistake.

Removing the exploitative relationships that the US has with third world countries in the form of "foreign aid" is good. It's just that (1) Trump actually thinks these benefit these nations. Which they do not. And (2) the well intentioned liberals thinks the same as Trump does. So we end up with this weird state where both are wrong but the policy is actually good long term.

Again, there will absolutely be problems as these dependencies are cut of so quickly. But no more than the continued exploitation in the long term would result in.

At Thomas Sankara said. These direct food injections are not helpful. They are a way that capitalist use to direct the economy of third world nations towards dependency on America Imperialism. Ending them is good for these nations. Even if there are struggles when they end.

Self determination and self sustainability have been robbed from these nations by USAID for decades.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 hours ago

@LeninOnAPrayer
No. Its a genocide.
Ending so much funds so abruptly is criminal.
Millions are starving right now.
Thousands of people will die of Malaria and aids. Thousands of children will get polio and will be crippled for life.
That's a disaster

[–] [email protected] -2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Read the rest of the comment. They weren't talking about the $20bn number being wrong.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 20 hours ago

Right, it was mostly irrelevant. Also a person who doesn’t understand the role of USAID.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/02/08/742401/aiding-chaos-usaid-role-engineering-regime-change-social-unrest-worldwide