• marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    ‘Feeding the hungry’ is an evil CIA plot when the US State department made them hungry.

    And yes, as a brown person now in a 3rd world country (technically second world, but anything not white is third world to you people), I do care about the crimes the US does to the country I’ve been adopted into; including what USAID has done.

    Pretending any thing the US has ever done has been done out of benevolence is, at best, pure willful ignorance. Ask someone in a country that has been affected by USAID why USAID was necessary sometime. Go on.

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      6 days 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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      6 days 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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      5 days 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