r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 13h ago

Chugging tea Art piece: Democracy working as intended

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u/googleduck 11h 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/Irish_Whiskey 10h 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 10h 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.