I think the thing a lot of people are like just refusing to grasp is the point was always that the US cutting off aid would cause mass death. That under developing these countries, creating a network of soft power and dependence was always the liberal agenda. That it was set up this way.
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even today existing liberals don't seek to end colonial relations (as in "canada"), but to reform them
In fact, it's hopeful. You can change the way the world works when you acknowledge that you've believed lies. It's really freeing and you should try it.
[Citation needed]
A. Doesn’t exist
B. Also doesn’t reveal their actual intentions.
Go eat Budd Dwyer’s lunch, you fucking mark ass trick.
and i think you meant "lip service to the inherant dignity of all humans" because LOL
but, i guess if you unclenched your butthole at all, you might fall off that tightrope
Sanctions actively undermine the concept of " the inherent dignity of all humans" and are imposed upon nations America does not like.
Thus even if it doesn't create dependence aid is clearly used in a manner contrary to liberal values.
The thing you're "not interested in" is the truth.
In general, African self-determination and control of its own resources would be the bare minimum.
What specifically don't Africans get to self-determine?
What resources are being extracted? How do we stop that?
It is the undeclared jihad by our Military Industrial Complex to provide warmaking capacity to all who can pay the price for our weaponry.
I suspected it might be true at the
time, and nothing that’s happened
since disproves it.
And jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams, Hitler is alive in Argentine, and if you go too far south - you'll fall off the flat earth.
So glad I didn't pay for an education, when the facts of life are given away free by the likes of you.
Well done, chap.
Just don't tell the others.
Why are you congratulating me? You're not sneaky.
You're dumb as a box of rocks.
My mama taught me that if someone thinks they did something very smart, you should congratulate them.
So I feel no need to point out that I wasn't trying to be sneaky, and take away from your so called achievement.
Why should I make you feel silly? You're doing just fine.
Sorry or congrats.
Meanwhile, the fighting on the Moon continued, undisturbed. Away from prying eyes of liberal scum. Just as planned.
MUHAHAHAHAHA!
Nope.
If you want to write one of your own, I'll gladly critique that one as well.
If we're to actually stick to what I replied to,
It is a conspiracy, because of the generalization.
USAID is an example of at least part of the aid not fitting the OP's description.
"Hurr durr lead paint, moon war"
* Improve the odds of a preferred candidate winning.
* Influence a candidate's attitude toward an interest group's goals.
* Withhold them if a candidate doesn't act in your interest.
But foreign aid is different, because... reasons.
I find it funny that in a world where you and 3 of your friends can't decide which toppings to put on a pizza that would satisfy everybody, conspiracies like these exist.
As if we don't have enough crap to worry about.
Structuring aid to enable that is just a natural evolution.
They didn't create the drone strike program with the intent of handing it over to a corrupt madman, either.
Or add insane amounts of power to the Presidency, for that matter.
But what about the rest of the, ehem... How should I put it...
Not as bright?
Yeah. The morons?
I find being clear to be helpful in these cases.
I'm here to please.
How did you two know that was my weakness???
Insult my love making skills?!
How ever will I live with myself after this disaster?
(Not that I like liberal moderate centrists at all, btw. I hate em)
But your followup posts all aptly point to neoliberalism.
Good on ya.
Thanks for speaking truth.
it's not like even we have the money for some kind of massive one time
as long has we have a constant foreign aid budget, *no matter how that money is spent*, if it's ended, people will be worse off, because then less money will be being spent. it's basic math.
The risk of a future admin cutting off aid has always been foreseeable, and nothing was done.
But continuing to increase aid and add more? There were moral imperatives that funded it too.
Those no longer exist under current 47th Admin.
Not to say EVERYTHING was done for moral purpose. Didn’t say US govt felt a moral obligation but they did sell that perception to the American public.
It remained that way for 50+ yrs
The same way China provides aid. Are they more moral?
I can say all powerful countries try soft power and it’s usually w strings.
If it’s your country providing the aid, you’ll probably defend it
Overall, democratic countries provide aid for good reasons
In your example, let's you also slip the cops even more money and tell them everything the homeless people do, where they are, who they talk to. Now it's starting to look a little more like the US system of foreign aid.
- Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
https://bsky.app/profile/mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social/post/3ko6pdhdzrd2e
Heaven forbid people have standards like “what if our
Funding got cut to USAid because they were investigating Elon Musk. Not because everyone is
If aid was meant as seeking forgiveness why have there been so many threats to withdraw it?
Get therapy, please.
America's mercy has dried up and the entire world is seeing why the American liberal agenda is so bad.
They could've been empowering the Global South.
I also would agree with the notion that a settler colonial nation founded on or around the protection of private property and the promotion of free market ideology will be shaped by this yes
Sorry i meant imperialisms, not life saving medicine for children
Do you think it’s because George Bush cares about disabled people? Or, is this simply a testament to the effectiveness of disabled activists in DC? (and to the fact that they found it easier to coerce Bush than Carter?)
Both parties counted on Americans agreeing that caring for others is needed for humans to peacefully exist
More a moral issue, not political & continued for decades
That no longer applies in a brave new world
Cutting aid doesn’t help modern colonialism or China would stop too
Would you agree that caring for others didn’t used to be so political tho? It was more human decency.
Everything is more political now tho. Artificially so.
I was always an engaged voter who attended town halls.
I try to stay informed on local, national & international fronts.
But I don’t want to be consumed politics.
I blame education systems that cut civic classes, Reagan revoking the 1949 Fairness Doctrine, scotus for its Citizens United decision, vote suppressing laws being enacted, voters themselves for not being better informed and other reasons.
It’s been decades long process to get here.
The Chinese purposefully avoids becoming a colonialist country, as set out by Deng.
They have a benevolent dictator they call “Father” and agree to keep their Chinese puppet leader or else…
niger continues to attempt to force the french to leave but they are refusing
who’s the brutal authoritarian here?
Go figure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_resources_management_in_Belize
A lot of good was done over decades, millions of lives were saved, yet you see only a cynical power play, and that's on you.
Remember the threat of removing that aid has always been there, and not hidden.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/788-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUOwPcfc1MM#ddg-play
The problem might be their misunderstanding of America First.
That does not mean everyone else has to lose or come in last.
No?
To them, liberalism caused all their ills not the GOP they voted for who legislated it.
Serious business, put your money where your mouth is, speak loud, arm up, & show out. Right now, this country needs its people. Live free, be an American, & fight for it.