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[+] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today -2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[+] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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[–] pfried@reddthat.com 8 points 4 months ago

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.

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[–] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago*

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.

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago

technically second world, but anything not white is third world to you people

Then maybe you shouldn't keep using that language. You're the one that introduced it during your first comment

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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

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)