2. VoxUkraine was among Facebook third-party fact-checkers which censored and downranked speech critical of Ukraine, including that of US citizens and politicians on Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram. https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck
No agency can do stuff like that and expect to survive republican administration, no matter how many good deeds it's done on the side
These are legitimate points. I don't agree it warrants total abolition of the agency. I would like figures but I would guess >95% of its funding did not go to activities of this kind.
At some point we have to be honest and admit that agency and its senior staff absolutely committed to opposing republicans on nearly all issues from international relations to social issues to media censorship. After concluding this, I genuinely don't see any solution which doesn't essentially boil down to firing everyone and starting from scratch.
Mr. Willy, stop getting your news from the hysterical American press.
1. The US government has zero moral obligation towards humanity-at-large. There's nothing sociopathic about stopping my tax $ from being used to treat Africans' self-inflicted AIDS crisis. Next you'll be telling us we have a Moral Obligation to take them in by the millions when they start dying in one of their periodic self-inflicted famines. If you feel moved (and that's fine), you should donate your own personal money for their relief.
2. The goal of Trump's tariffs has been obvious since the beginning: triggering the re-shoring of industrial manufacturing. He's been saying that forever. That is the "endstate" towards which we are (in his view) transitioning.
3. As somebody who has worked at the NIH, I fervently wish Trump would shut it down altogether. Cutting funding is like giving aspirin to a cancer patient.
Perfect definition man!
USAID as a matter of course funded foreign orgs which got involved into US politics and attacked US republicans. The prime examples here are:
1. Molfar lists Vice President Vance and Elon Musk on it's Enemies of Ukraine list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molfar_(company) https://molfar.com/en/foreign-propagandists
2. VoxUkraine was among Facebook third-party fact-checkers which censored and downranked speech critical of Ukraine, including that of US citizens and politicians on Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram. https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck
No agency can do stuff like that and expect to survive republican administration, no matter how many good deeds it's done on the side
These are legitimate points. I don't agree it warrants total abolition of the agency. I would like figures but I would guess >95% of its funding did not go to activities of this kind.
> I don't agree it warrants total abolition of the agency.
What do you suggest then, if "activities of this kind" are deemed completely unacceptable?
Ask USAID to stop? Tried in 2019, nothing happened https://www.devex.com/news/usaid-missions-told-to-comply-with-trump-s-foreign-assistance-realignment-96120
Cut funding and personnel? USAID didn't seem to get the message when it was saved at the last moment in budget fight in 2018 https://borgenproject.org/effects-cuts-to-usaid/
Appoint senior staff to oversee change in direction? Great idea, because appointing anti-transgender activist in 2017 totally changed USAID stance on LGBT issues https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lesterfeder/trump-administration-appoints-anti-transgender-activist-to
At some point we have to be honest and admit that agency and its senior staff absolutely committed to opposing republicans on nearly all issues from international relations to social issues to media censorship. After concluding this, I genuinely don't see any solution which doesn't essentially boil down to firing everyone and starting from scratch.
Mr. Willy, stop getting your news from the hysterical American press.
1. The US government has zero moral obligation towards humanity-at-large. There's nothing sociopathic about stopping my tax $ from being used to treat Africans' self-inflicted AIDS crisis. Next you'll be telling us we have a Moral Obligation to take them in by the millions when they start dying in one of their periodic self-inflicted famines. If you feel moved (and that's fine), you should donate your own personal money for their relief.
2. The goal of Trump's tariffs has been obvious since the beginning: triggering the re-shoring of industrial manufacturing. He's been saying that forever. That is the "endstate" towards which we are (in his view) transitioning.
3. As somebody who has worked at the NIH, I fervently wish Trump would shut it down altogether. Cutting funding is like giving aspirin to a cancer patient.