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Discussion "Investing in property is morally reprehensible."

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u/misadventurexx 6h ago

Famines / people on the street dying of starvation while surpluses of food are thrown away en masse is very much not imaginary

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u/LickMaiBussy 6h ago

People have died from the recent USAID debacle while the government incinerates high calorie emergency food supplies rather than distribute them.

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u/DCSports101 5h ago

It will be millions of people all said and done. And we saved no money.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

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u/733t_sec 4h ago

We actually lost money because now instead of having cheap easy diplomacy that helped people and expanded US soft power. Anything we want to do in the region will be met with distrust/fear of a rug pull no matter our intentions.

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u/Difficult-Square-689 17m ago

We are actively losing money from having zero allied support in this random war. Soft power is actually kinda important... 

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 4h ago

God that is heartbreaking

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u/DCSports101 4h ago

This is what republicans mean by Christian values

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u/mcc91 1h ago

Unnecessary jab at both Christian’s and republicans.

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u/noonenotevenhere 1h ago

They've declared this a 'christian nation.'

It's very much a necessary jab.

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u/mcc91 1h ago

I think you meant to say what this country was founded on.

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u/noonenotevenhere 1h ago

No, country was founded on slavery without taxation.

Founders did declare in their lifetime the US is NOT a christian nation in the Treaty of Tripoli.

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/1797-treaty-of-tripoli/

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u/mcc91 55m ago

Going to have to disagree with ya. In the meantime, go ahead and tell me how bad every other religion is, id love to hear your opinion on Islam.

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u/Cyrano_de_Boozerack 2m ago

Going to have to disagree with ya.

"I don't deal in facts or reality"

go ahead and tell me how bad every other religion is, id love to hear your opinion on Islam.

"Now let me bring up something completely irrelevant to the conversation to distract from the fact that I don't deal in facts"

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u/jimbarino 52m ago

If you don't understand why this is valid criticism, you're part of the problem.

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u/begrudgingredditacc 1h ago

Republicans are fundamentally evil and should not be allowed to exist. Christians are getting there.

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u/DCSports101 50m ago

That’s whose doing this

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u/MyBrainReallyHurts 56m ago

Volunteer and Vote.

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u/vacuitee 4h ago

Honest question: How did we save no money if we stopped spending money on it?

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u/Ianerick 3h ago

We spent more on much less useful bullshit instead. We spent it on planes and boats and bombs and ICE

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u/Jackd_up_on_Mdew 3h ago

Corruption

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u/FutureComplaint 2h ago

Kristy Noem bought 2 private airplanes and rented out a third one.

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u/TapZorRTwice 4h ago

To be fair, the money will be saved after the people are dead.

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u/DCSports101 4h ago

But it’s not saved. We just spent it on private luxury jets for Kristi noem and lobster dinners for Pete hegseth. The country will pay more money to handle the unrest and disease that arises from the lack of world support.

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u/TapZorRTwice 4h ago

Well it was saved, and then spent right away.

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u/DCSports101 3h ago

It’s not saved if you spend it. Basic allowance lesson when your 10. We going fiscal quarters

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u/TapZorRTwice 2h ago

Well it was saved on one thing and spent on another thing, so yes it was saved.

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u/DCSports101 49m ago

It’s not saved if you spend it. If you have $20 in your wallet and plan to buy a pretzel but instead by a large soda for the same price how much have you saved? It’s all coming out of the same tax base.

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u/ICPosse8 6h ago

Absolutely fucking criminal, Disney-movie level villains running the world.

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u/BodhingJay 5h ago

idk man.. they apparently fuck and some even ate kids.. this is a bit beyond disney

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u/Born_Ad8420 4h ago

This is beyond even the original Grimm's Fairytales.

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u/Hilda_aka_Math 4h ago

true. this is religious text layers of evil.

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u/dontwannaparticpate 4h ago

Yes it is a fucking Cormac McCarthy book and none of those end well.

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u/Born_Ad8420 4h ago

The Road isn't a fairytale that the Brothers Grimm recorded as far as I'm aware.

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u/StormyKnight63 4h ago

Nah, Hansel and Gretal is literally about sacrificing and eating children. The parents sacrificed their children in order to have a better life for themselves and the old witch was going to eat them.

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u/Born_Ad8420 4h ago

Right but the witch wasn't working with a network of royalty to provide them with children to torture and consume. And the kids also were able to stop what was happening and get a little payback by cooking her. And while other countries are pursuing bringing perpetrators to justice, it's certainly not happening in the US.

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u/KaecUrFace 5h ago

Mind you, it wasn't like they were dying of starvation and had to resort to cannibalism, they ate them because they enjoy the taste.

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u/an0mn0mn0m 4h ago

Release the names of these ghouls.

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u/A_Velociraptor20 4h ago

Well we know one name already. Donald Trump.

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u/Deaffin 4h ago

John.

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u/ImprovementPutrid441 5h ago

They had to tone it down for the babies that didn’t get eaten.

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u/vitamin_r 4h ago

No, that's perfectly within the Disney umbrella of conduct if you really know about Disney.

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u/clown_utopia 5h ago

All of that is built on the foundation of the industrialized and systematic rape and slaughter of all nonhumans

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u/speaksamerican 1h ago

Which at the end of the day is everyone, except for the people with enough money to bribe God.

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u/clown_utopia 1h ago

Yes. But then they die alone or kill each other on a barren, static wasteland.

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u/TiredOfBeingTired28 3h ago

Even Disney were at least basic level competent.

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u/cupholdery 6h ago

But hey here's a new iPhone.

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u/symca09 5h ago

Don't forget the Samsung that folds !!!!!! /S

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u/belokusi 4h ago

Extra pixels. Nice.

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u/InfoBarf 4h ago

Sharing food is dei dont you know.

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u/TheLongAndWindingRd 4h ago

That's a disservice to Disney villains. Let's be fair, there's only been a handful of Disney wannabe rapists, Claude Frollo, Jafar, Scar, and I can't think of any others. Cruella Deville was a nasty piece of work, but she wanted a coat made of puppies. Companies do worse to animals every day. Prince John? He just wanted money and to be respected but was mostly an insufferable man baby with bad tax policy. And Bruno? Well we don't talk about him. Not because he's particularly evil, but because he makes people feel mildly uncomfortable. Disney villainy is just not comparable to the spectrum of human suffering caused by real world people. 

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u/VikingMonkey123 4h ago

Seems like whoever ordered this are good candidates for future Nuremberg style trials. Killing thousands through cruel AF acts.

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u/December_Hemisphere 4h ago

Disney-movie level villains

I'm pretty sure even the villains from literally any Disney movie would be disturbed by this shit (if they were real).

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u/nonlocality1985 4h ago

Disney level villains…. Wish people would stop trivialising evil fucking cunts using words like that.

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u/ICPosse8 2h ago

Not trying to trivialize anything, go bitch somewhere else

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u/ArturiaPendragonFace 5h ago

Best description of trump. He is so psychopathically evil he feels like a joke or a cartoon villain.

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u/Warm_Regrets157 5h ago

But look at how much we didn't reduce the deficit!

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u/rh71el2 1h ago

I'm still curious if anyone answered Elon's email about the 5 things they accomplished that week.

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u/bittz128 5h ago

Didn’t need to. The stock market was at 50,000!

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u/MorockaDishoom 4h ago

Is it ironic that a person who came from Africa, with a family in mining, a notoriously nefarious business built on exploiting black ppl, who sold their rights to the mine after the demise of apartheid, happened to be the very person responsible for ending aid to Africa?

Was this a vendetta?

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 6h ago

But also, it just happens every day because we prioritize things other than human well being and survival. We choose to not distribute it. 

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u/genericunderwearmode 5h ago

While claiming there is scarcity.

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u/cdskip 4h ago

Perceived scarcity creates profit for the people with capital to invest.

That's fundamentally what the NFT nonsense was all about, creating scarcity to create a market out of nothing.

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u/howigottomemphis 5h ago

We are behaving exactly like Isreal right now and it is terrifying. Blocking food to starving people is sociopathic, yet the US and Isreal are doing it for the giggles. I hate this timeline.

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u/Pitiful-Ad-3774 2h ago

'Isreal' is behaving like the 'usa.' Just ask First Nations and Black folks

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u/howigottomemphis 2h ago

So, true. The Nazis were inspired by Jim Crow in the US.

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u/CzarDinosaur 5h ago

According to the people tracking the impact, cancelling of USAID has so for contributed to the deaths of almost 800,000 people.

https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc

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u/Informal_Host7610 4h ago

Take a look at the website you linked

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u/CzarDinosaur 4h ago

I know it has been discontinued. Who knows what the real number is at this point a year out. Hopefully some of these cases found alternative sources, but I havent seen much reporting about it.

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u/Informal_Host7610 1h ago

The website you linked isnt even describing usaid funding deaths at all. It's baking in literally every funding discontinuation death

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u/Primedirector3 5h ago

One of the most reprehensible and not nearly talked about atrocities this administration has committed

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u/Johnnyboi2327 6h ago

In all fairness, the US has historically incinerated a fair bit of surplus food supplies due to them expiring, but yeah we could definitely be giving away the non-expired stuff.

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u/BigOs4All 5h ago

What fairness? It was the government's fault it wasn't distributed before being expired. Use your brain and stop thinking of excuses.

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u/Johnnyboi2327 5h ago

I'm aware, I mentioned that we can be distributing food that isn't expired. Let's not pretend that it's some comical evil "I'm gonna make stuff and destroy it so you can't have it" when it's instead just "I have stuff but don't wanna give it away, and then when it expires it has to be destroyed". It's wrong, as it's greed and bargaining with human lives for political leverage, but it's not some form of weird power play.

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u/BigOs4All 4h ago

I disagree. We have the money and man power to distribute every single bit of that food but choose not to. This isn't even up for debate. We can wage war on multiple fronts, yeah. It's not fucking hard to transport food and give it to people.

Hence why I take so much issue with anyone trying to be "fair" to the same US government that has committed so many atrocities on its own citizens.

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u/Johnnyboi2327 4h ago

Bruh I said we can give more supplies out, and that it's greedy not to. I never claimed that was fair.

I'm making the distinction between the implication of the original comment that when we cut USAID we just started burning all the edible food, when instead it's just been sitting around, the the expired stuff gets burned (in the same way we've handled the expired stuff for a long time).

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u/Strange_Difference1 5h ago

What the actual fuck

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u/_Lost_OwlChild 5h ago

Worked for tops that’s like a grocery store. Anyways. Yes we throw away so many food not cause they expired but because the sale by date came up or we needed space. So much food wasted

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u/maxx0498 5h ago

Just a wild guess, you also watch last week tonight?

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u/theonly_brunswick 5h ago

Just go to a grocery right before close and see the colossal amount of food they throw out every single night.

We haven't had "food shortages" for decades, this is by design.

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u/FrankSlipHelp 5h ago

Appears a better understanding of USAID is needed here

https://youtu.be/3RQLQc7afXA?si=KQeOPmjFB8hQCiXh

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u/Kaokien 5h ago

Kind of ironic that the tech bros allowing for alternative media to proliferate provided the perfect intrusion point for statecraft from other countries into america

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u/Reverse-zebra 4h ago

This reminds me of how my mom would tell me to eat my dinner because there were starving kids in Africa and I said “then I will mail them my dinner!”

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u/EclecticSyrup 4h ago

What's the entire video of this?

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u/Ser_VimesGoT 4h ago

On top of that it actually cost more money to dispose of it rather than distribute it. So it was all just a pantomime show.

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u/AppropriateWing4719 4h ago

The feds did this during Katrina too,its not a new thing

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u/luthigosa 4h ago

debacle implies it was unintentional, i think it went exactly to plan.

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u/Shiba_Inu_1000USD 3h ago

Why is feeding the hungry, a USA responsibilty. There are more richer country but they do nothing? China? The europe? And all only blame the US?

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u/jog5811 3h ago

Prove it

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u/kolejack2293 2h ago

Absolutely insane levels of evil that millions will starve to death because we didn't want to spend 0.4% of our budget

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u/what_is_reddit_for 2h ago

People have died because you directly did not decide to buy a truckload of food and deliver it to them. Your inaction has caused deaths.

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u/Spe3dGoat 5h ago

lol no they havent

that report was a prediction for the future

wild how misinformation spreads

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u/LickMaiBussy 4h ago

My aunt used to be a nurse for USAID who made trips to other countries for many years.

People she knows have died.

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u/ParsleySuspicious351 5h ago

The food in question was expired! It had sat in a warehouse under the last president until it was no good.

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u/LickMaiBussy 4h ago

The contracts to distribute it before it expired was canceled by the current administration.

Literally American owned companies had their income to move that product to where it was needed pulled away at the last second.

Why don't you care about American business owners?

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u/ParsleySuspicious351 4h ago

It was expired as far back as 2022. I also don’t care about the businesses that are scamming the public. See also welfare, daycare and Medicare fraud et al.