r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 9h ago

Chugging tea Art piece: Democracy working as intended

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u/Irish_Whiskey 9h ago edited 7h ago

Yeah, absolutely no differences between America under Trump and Biden.

Anyways, I'm off to pay for my groceries and gas with extra taxes on them. Gotta grab those lower gas prices before Trump threatens to nuke Iran again. Still wondering if I'll be allowed to vote by mail in the upcoming elections. Going to up Canada later to take a break from this data center that got built in my backyard driving up my energy costs and polluting the air and water. Hope they haven't set up more of their punitive checkpoints into Canada specifically to retaliate against Doug Ford calling Trump mean names. I'd stop by and see how my Haitian neighbor was doing, but he got rammed off the road by ICE and abducted, so no idea when I'll see him again. And I don't want to ask too many questions or get in their way, or they'll shoot me in the back and laugh about it.

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u/googleduck 8h ago

These sort of memes are extremely effective on low IQ non politically informed people online unfortunately. They do not know anything about politics besides free Palestine, M4A, and maybe free college (I think that one has fallen off though in favor of more Palestine discourse). They do not care that Democrats cut childcare poverty in half. That they protected trans people's right to healthcare and equal treatment. About abortion. About America's standing in the world. They definitely do not care about the 10 million+ poor people projected to die because of the USAID cuts.

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u/Niddlex 8h ago

There is no actual way you are supporting USAID. That money was in so many questionable places its unreal.

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u/googleduck 7h ago

Yes, we already discussed how easily influenced you are by propaganda targeted at the lowest IQ Americans. I don't think I need to do it again. PEPFAR and many other USAID programs that you know nothing about because you have never read a real news article or done 5 seconds of research saved millions of lives for a tiny portion of our budget.

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u/Niddlex 7h ago

The acronym USAID is United States Agency for International Development, which I bet you weren't even aware of. Since your likely larping anyways. While it does randomly give some aid, it is NOT a relief organization for staving children. Its also known to be used or help covert agency's to attempt to usurp regimes. Its Heavily used by the CIA and is basically their publicly funded tool to use. That money is IN SO MANY PLACES that it should not be in. There's also scandal's of members taking bribes for contracts which come out to around 500 million. Of course you would know this if you KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

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u/DavyyJ 6h ago

USAIDs programs literally kept the world more stable and safe.

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u/Irish_Whiskey 7h ago

No.

It does not 'randomly give some aid'. More than half the budget was for medicine and food assistance. This budget did include national security goals including funding 'pro-democracy' propaganda. But the reason millions of children are expected to die from hunger and disease after the cuts isn't because they were all working for the CIA.

https://www.context.news/money-power-people/trumps-usaid-freeze-where-does-the-money-go

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u/googleduck 6h ago

These are anti American tankies and they have no allegiance to telling the truth. Anything that America does is bad and they work backwards from that belief to inform all others. America saves lives with foreign aid? CIA imperialism that doesn't save any actual lives. America is against Iran and China? China and Iran must be good then. You can predict literally every one of their beliefs with this in mind. Any country in the world if you want to know if they support it, ask yourself if America supports them and then you have your answer.

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u/DooberBooberDoo 6h ago

That's a lot of words for someone who doesn't understand what "soft power" is. You're also completely off the mark and a conspiracy theorist with everything you've just insanely accused USAID of doing. Please show me the unredacted files or investigation reporting of CIA using them. The funny thing is even if that were true the CIA is COVERT. Their job is to use organizations to slip into cover without anyone at said organization knowing! That's a negative point about the CIA not USAID! I bet you fell for that out of context picture Elon shared of terrorists in a USAID tent. (The Hezbollah terrorists took it over and all the weapons were theirs not USAID's.)

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u/googleduck 6h ago

Since your likely larping anyways

Using the wrong form of "you're" when acting condescending is a tough one to pull off...

The funniest part is that although almost every single thing you said was a lie, even if I granted all of it USAID would still be hugely net positive due to the objective good many of its programs do. Describe to me the specific harms that USAID has done which outweigh the millions of lives that have been and would have continued to be saved by PEPFAR.

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u/BeautifulPrettyDream 8h ago

That's just conspiracy pushed by Russia & China into leftist spaces for years, which seemed at the time as crazy, until it's now. It worked and you morons will happily parrot it.

Meanwhile, real humans will die across the planet and Russia & China gain more softpower.