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Western games and studios bad because of USAID? This is a gamer conspiracy I've never heard before (thelemmy.club)
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Do they believe USAID was funding game studios on the condition that they put in more gay and trans characters and make the all the female characters look at least 50% less fuckable? First it was Soros and Blackrock, now it's USAID

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[–] 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm out of the loop- USAID gets used to do harm?

I assume theres indirect harms from the soft power the US gains and uses for imperialism, is there direct harm also?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    I’m relatively uneducated on this topic but my understanding of the position against USAID has two main points.

    It’s weaponized to keep countries dependent on aid open to us business and operations (for example when countries pushed back on sending troops to Iraq they would threatened with losing their aid, Yemen is a name that comes to mind but between the USAID cuts and the Yemeni civil war my phone googling isn’t helping me very much)

    The other point (as I understand it) is that it can create dependency (sometimes tied to the conditions of the aid). Former leader of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, spoke out about this a couple times:

    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.

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