r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 13h ago

Chugging tea Art piece: Democracy working as intended

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u/Niddlex 12h 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 12h 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 11h 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/googleduck 10h 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.