can't decide if they are knowingly trying to reduce US influence abroad or if they're just so averse to academic language that they can't read between the lines of the program titles. are they confused that they don't see programs titled like "spies" & "bribes" & so on lol
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It's so extremely wild to see that in less than 3 months Elon single-handedly is shredding decades of work the CIA did to build economic soft-power bases throughout Africa and Asia.
bro actually is ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of the American Empire in real time
bro actually is ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of the American Empire in real time
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Uncomfortable for a while, sure, but then we just settle back in to assuming the US will be unreliable for the next four years.
If Trump declares war on 12 countries, I don't. He has taught me not to believe him.
I think more likely Trump is knowingly going all hard-power, gassed up Great Decider.
And building job skills plus democratic institutions makes for more a stable world.
Smearing it as merely “spies and bribes” only helps to assholes who want to cut all aid.
Or, they could just be high on their own supply and too arrogant to see any long term consequences of their actions 🤷🏻♂️
they must be so good at their job that they never have anything to report.
Well, obviously not.
There was absolutely a debate behind the scenes by the people creating that program about whether the name was too obvious.
doge nerd: 'inclusive political process'? sounds woke, cut it
They don’t care about US influence because they aim to deconstruct the US and all other nation states and replace these with fascistic surveilant corporate technofeudal fiefdoms guarded by private militaries, all over the world.
jfc
They think the world operates like Hearts of Iron 4.
They think they can just do hard colonialism again.
More instability in those countries that were receiving USAID makes them more vulnerable to that eventual possibility.
Never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake.
They fired a bunch of nuclear technicians and immediately tried rescinding that when they realized those technicians maintained our nuclear weapon stocks.
Elon did this exact crap with Twitter when he bought it. That didn't go well.
Capturing governments is only a step in their plan
What could go wrong?
Egypt and Indonesia are straight up building new capitals and guess who’s gonna fund those projects now
They simply lack the domain knowledge to understand how easily those who do have that knowledge see right through their claims.
Unfortunately, being dumb as rocks doesn't make them that much less dangerous.
It’s gonna suck for us, but less for everyone else.
billionaires not paying taxes = SMRT
Eg; last time, he torpedoed the truly evil Trans Pacific Partnership
don't say the quiet part out loud.
i cracked up when my highly intelligent cousin told me, "I've joined Bell Labs & they are sending me to Central America as an election observer."
My response, "Welcome to the CIA, brother."
plus the US government saving $10 million is like the average American saving 5 cents.
And they are so definitely very tough strong men, mmhmm very strong and manly guys, trust me, and soft sounds so "weak" and "wimpy" and they definitely aren't that.
Media literacy is in chronic shortage in the political right wing.
Make America Impotent As A World Power.
(MAIAAWP?_)
That and no concept of soft power.