• 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      51 minutes ago

      weakening the US state is a good thing in my book. The less organized the imperial core is the more breathing room there is for the rest of the world.

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        46 minutes ago

        it’s not weakening; it’s reshuffling resources to prioritize china.

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          It does weakening it temporarily, institutions take time to get properly organized and function efficiently. Think of USAID, while not perfectly efficient it already functioned like an oiled machine, dismantling it to set up a new one will require more work to get it started than just keeping USAID going, with the added risk that the newer thing is not guaranteed to succeed.

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      Im not sure if you actually looked at the words on the meme or not, but it doesn’t say they’re “exactly the same” it says they’re less evil. Democrats teamed up with war criminal Dick Cheney for fucks sake, it’s like they are actively trying to make people not vote for them.

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        If someone I don’t like or interact with says they support me, that is not me “teaming up” with them.

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      Dishonest to say only the things Trump has done but not look at the situation equally. Why not mentioned Biden’s reversal of Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops from Somalia?

      Secondly, when was the first time you had heard of USAID? I find all these people love to say how many “lives it saves” while they also had only learned about it very recently. USAID was a tool of US neocolonialism designed to prevent countries in the global south from gaining sovereignty.

      They are both the same and the last two months has only further confirmed that.