Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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A thought I had for dealing with liberals who are butt hurt over the closure of USAID: “USAID is the geopolitical equivalent of a person who volunteers at a soup kitchen to find victims for sexual assault”
Michael Parenti said it beautifully: Any aid from a capitalist country is when money is taken from the poor people of a rich country and given to the rich people of a poor country
At about a rate of 30 dollars lost for every dollar of “aid” gained, apparently
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X
I agree. The international development approach of the Western European diaspora is to provide the government and patriach to enforce authoritarianism and sexism.