The absolute scam that is USAID

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tsing Tao, Feb 4, 2025.

  1. Ricter

    Ricter

    Ah, well, it's true that if one's focus is going to be climate change only, then it's foolish to not consider nuclear power. However, as you may recall from reading my ecological overshoot thread, climate change is but one symptom of that, the overarching problem. That's where nuclear is a big waste of time and money, an expensive distraction, because it is another futile attempt (like geo-engineering) to continue business as usual—which we absolutely must not and cannot do.

    But, I'm derailing the thread...
     
    #521     Feb 18, 2025
  2. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    Outed? I am an actor, was, I can play around but I have never factually lied.

    I was quite clear that I was giving back to the right what Trump was doing, making things personal and dark.

    However, I actually took a dark turn in the weeks after my daughter was involved in trying to get some friends of her friends out of Gaza. The family were coptic Christian, one girl dying from sepsis after being trapped under a building. The rest of the family pinned down by IDF snipers who had only one objective, to clear the zone. And they did.

    You don't get angry with people you think are only idiots, I wanted somebody here to have a breakthrough about having compassion for things close but a "kill em all and let god sort it out" attitude to Palestinians. I was heavy handed.
     
    #522     Feb 18, 2025
  3. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    You were trying to hide, and you were outed. You can claim you never officially lied, but all you're doing is hiding on a technicality. But it doesn't make a difference. It's not like you were thought of highly in any case, under any other username.

    Have the last (stupid) word on the subject.
     
    #523     Feb 18, 2025
  4. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Don't worry, that ship has long sailed.
     
    #524     Feb 18, 2025
  5. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    30 year career bureaucrat gone.

     
    #525     Feb 18, 2025
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  6. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    Now you are lying. I never intend to be thought highly of, I wasn't cultivating an audience, I've had the same few buddies who get me* all along. My reward for sharing dark humour/perception, getting it back.

    *sometimes didn't but told me.
     
    #526     Feb 18, 2025
  7. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    See? This kind of nasty you revel in is far worse than me. She did the right thing.
     
    #527     Feb 18, 2025
  8. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    #528     Feb 18, 2025
  9. The beneficiary is the heart of corruption... remember Biden son getting money from Burisma....it matters who is the beneficiary.

    Does not work like that... he wiped out the entire USAID because of a handful of programs that were wasteful and cut off numerous programs that provided real aid and food to suffering people around the world. Going to space is a waste of money and Musk has a direct conflcit of interest in his position overseeing what gets cut and what stays when his company can get billions in federal contracts. That is corruption and that spending should be cut period. If we do not need to send food to countries with poverty why the fuck should we spend billions to fly to the moon and back?

    You cannot pick nd choose and have the person who benefits by billions making the decision. Imagine trump demanding all government travel stay in trump hotels. Or he gets a huge donation from Hilton and demands all travel fro work must use hilton hotels only.
    Musk is a foreigner and does not get to say who gets what. Going to the moon is useless shit that only Musk profits from.
     
    #529     Feb 18, 2025
  10. Ricter

    Ricter

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    #530     Feb 18, 2025
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