alt Hacker NewsBut USAID needed to be destroyed. 'AID' never stood for aid, it was an organization for international development and spent vast amounts of money on cultural programs for countries that didn't want them.
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> vast amounts of money on cultural programs for countries that didn't want them.
I don't understand. How do you give someone money if they don't want it?
There will be an estimated 14 million extra deaths directly attributed to this policy choice: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
91 million lives were saved over the last two decades. The vast majority of that wasn't "international development" fluff; it was basic survival. We’re talking about stopping tuberculosis, malaria, and starvation.
Framing this as getting rid of unwanted "cultural programs" is a convenient way to ignore the fact that we pulled the plug on the life support system for 30 million children.
"What is soft power?"
What other things should we destroy because you can vaguely describe something you consider wasteful?