seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
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But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
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I would love to say no true leftist, but I also know some genuinely progressive folks, in some regards, who are stupid like that.
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All this is about? Look up.
Heck, even Egyptian military aid is pretty gray.
Obviously, the fix for this is letting the CIA do less crime, not cutting USAID, though.
For decades people have asked…(1/2)
And we were laughed out of the room. Or given a bunch of mediocre reasons as to why this was the ‘most stable’ approach. UGH.
Thank you for caring.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32909369/
And China will jump strait in to take over..