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[–]UncleWillard56 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Why stop there? How many trillions are we in debt? 30? We have enough issues of our own. Maybe to cut the cord on all this foreign aid and invest it in our own country for a while?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Foreign aid is largely funding for companies in the US. The US government decides to aid girls’ education in Shitholestan, so pays Pearson to write and print up text books in Shitholestani, then it contracts with a U.S. construction company to build some schools and pays some US universities to train up some Shitholestani teachers or just straight up sends teachers to Shitholestan.

So the US government spends the majority of that money in the US and a little ends up in Shitholestan when the US construction company subcontracts Shitholestani construction workers.

Repeat the same for hospitals and even military funding - the majority of the funding for foreign militaries is just a big old cheque to US defence contractors.

Other countries do exactly the same. It’s good for the home economy and extremely good at generating soft power and goodwill. The only place it never works is Afghanistan and that’s because Afghanistan was a failed state before the British invaded in the 19th century due to its ridiculous geography and culture.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm not against the foreign aide in theory or principal. But you do have to sit down and basically go, well it's good we are helping people but unless we get our own infrastructure and social programs set up and functional then we're going to have big problems.

But domestic problems aren't merely a lack of money. We have the money to do it already but it gets misallocated somewhere and everyone's special interests need to get a cut.

Like people whine and complain about the state of US mass transit as a great example. And for good reason. US mass transit is shit. Like every ride the subway in LA? Jesus Christ it's like not even 3rd world. It's like, 5th world. I can't even.

And it's clearly not for lack of money, the system has loads of money you can see all the expensive unnecessary infrastructure they built, it's just like, utterly insane the decisions they made with it. No restrooms in the stations? Who the fuck is gonna wanna use it. Build stations in the middle of busy freeways? Wtf? Major transfer station in fucking Compton of all places? You wanna get shot changing trains? And goddamn no ticket gates at a lot of the stations? Well you're just asking for it to be a homeless encampment at that point. My god.

It's like an utter failure of anyone to sit down and actually think "why do we need a mass transit system, who is going to want to use it" throwing more money at it would just result in more expensive looking stations that aren't used by anyone except the homeless who need a place to sleep.

Now I'm also all for using tax money to give the homeless a place to sleep, but can it not be a train station? Can we like get them a sanitarium please?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Funny thing is with US aid to Uganda, the US provides considerable assistance to treating Ugandans with HIV and AIDS, and other diseases including TB and malaria.

So butthurt Troon is willing to throw the sick and dying under the bus in a tantrum over a law that will be thrown out by their courts just like the last one was.

[–]kingc-way245The Blackface of White Supremacy[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This troon claims to be “Libertarian” BTW

EDIT: When replying to another Twitter user, he also blamed “christofascism” for what’s happening in Uganda…

It has since been deleted.

[–]LtGreenCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Then they should be okay with a country governing themselves as they see fit.

[–]kingc-way245The Blackface of White Supremacy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

ACTUAL Libertarians won’t have a problem. “Lilith” is a Leftists who claims to be a “Libertarian”. A.K.A. a LINO

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A libertarian wouldn't want to take any forceful actions against Uganda but certainly wouldn't approve of how it's being governed.

I'm glad you even remember that libertarians exist. No one else does anymore.

[–]cant_even 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Great: Let's formally establish, for all the world to witness, that the Official Foreign Policy of the United States is LGBT supremacy.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's all black and white to you guys isn't it? The only options are slay all LGBTs or LGBT supremacy. Vote to give absolute power to the party that promises to do which one you want.

The elites are playing you like a damn fiddle.