The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off
China Aid will replace most of suspended USAID supplies.
I’ll repeat what I said: tell that to the poor sods who depend on it to make their lives less shit.
What you’re saying essentially is: for the sake of stopping the US meddling with other people’s affairs, let’s cut everybody off the support USAID provides: it will sting a little for them but the world will be better off.
Well, maybe. But if that’s what we want to do, how about we ramp it down slowly so those who depend on it have time to find alternative ways of not dying? How about not letting Musk and Trump abruptly stop all assistance without warning?
And this has nothing to do with the Guardian: when you shut down USAID all of the sudden, people get hurt. That’s just a plain fact.
Are you daft? Do you just imagine “US dominance” is some abstract concept. Look, the Nazi’s fed people. They actually had mess halls and they cooked food and some people ate that food for sustenance. Should we dismantle the Nazi regime or should we ramp it down slowly because some people rely on it for food? Like, actually listen to yourself.
No, just because a CIA front uses some money to help people doesn’t mean we should protect it from total and rapid destruction while it spends billions of dollars funding death squads, regime change goons, torturers, and assassins. Get a fucking grip.
Nice.
I’ll repeat what I said: tell that to the poor sods who depend on it to make their lives less shit.
What you’re saying essentially is: for the sake of stopping the US meddling with other people’s affairs, let’s cut everybody off the support USAID provides: it will sting a little for them but the world will be better off.
Well, maybe. But if that’s what we want to do, how about we ramp it down slowly so those who depend on it have time to find alternative ways of not dying? How about not letting Musk and Trump abruptly stop all assistance without warning?
And this has nothing to do with the Guardian: when you shut down USAID all of the sudden, people get hurt. That’s just a plain fact.
Or are you saying nobody benefits from USAID?
Are you daft? Do you just imagine “US dominance” is some abstract concept. Look, the Nazi’s fed people. They actually had mess halls and they cooked food and some people ate that food for sustenance. Should we dismantle the Nazi regime or should we ramp it down slowly because some people rely on it for food? Like, actually listen to yourself.
No, just because a CIA front uses some money to help people doesn’t mean we should protect it from total and rapid destruction while it spends billions of dollars funding death squads, regime change goons, torturers, and assassins. Get a fucking grip.