“This amendment would make that humanitarian aid illegal and people would die,” she concluded before Luna rose to rebut her speech.
“Chairman, I couldn’t help but pull out my pocket Constitution and I couldn’t seem to find anywhere in here where it says we need to fund programs for humanitarian aid for women and children in Afghanistan,” Luna said. “So, with that, I just wanted to point that out.”
Swamp ass.
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Is she that stupid, or that much of a bad actor?
We spend generations creating a population of uneducated people by gutting public education systems and price lockouting higher education, so now we need politicians that can pretend to be dumb, fit in and garner their support.
please don’t be from Florida. please don’t be from Florida. please don’t be from Florida
fuck.
Listen buddy it is like when you are on a plane. Make sure you are safe before helping others. Plenty of space available in the blue states.
I’m not leaving yet. I was born here, I’m staying here, and I’m voting here. I give it another ten years before I abandon state.
Thank you for your service
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the Constitution mentions anything about women in government.
Why does the US have to be a power? We have homeless here. We have poverty here. We have food insecurity here. I’m not against aid, just aid that goes to the wrong people.
https://www.rand.org/blog/2020/12/why-we-send-them-money.html Good piece from the RAND Corporation. The short answer is that it is in the US’s self interest to do so…
So we’re reducing people in foreign countries to a commodity we invest in for our self interest. There’s a word for that- exploitation.
No exploitation is when you get an unjust benefit. Is it exploitation for a store to sell you a mattress because you want a mattress and they profit from people buying mattresses?
I was referring to the Rand article:
Foreign aid represents a good investment for this relatively modest sum.
This is exploitation:
https://www.liberationnews.org/usaid-the-humanitarian-face-of-colonial-exploitation/
Foreign aid represents a good investment for this relatively modest sum.
I think you should read further than that sentence.
We would have plenty of money to spend at home and abroad if we didn’t have a military bigger than the next 20 combined. Giving foreign aid is something all first world countries do. Because they have it better than others. Even if there are people who live in poverty in America, overall the standard of living is higher than Afghanistan.
Maybe, if we hadn’t bombed their country for 20 years they’d have a higher standard of living. We’ll never know though
Considering how they were before we bombed them, that’s doubtful.
You think aid is going to stop the Taliban. We’re aiding a country we bombed, because of terrorists we created, because the Soviet Union was spreading communism. We’re deriving solutions to problems we created.
Are you suggesting that we shouldn’t try to solve problems that we created? That if we create a problem, intentionally or not, that we should just say to the world “ok you deal with it now”?
Because that sure seems like what you’re saying here.
That is exactly what I am saying. Did the Taliban ask for our help? Would our government accept aid from China to curb homelessness here? With restrictions of course that it be used only for food and clothing. They are a sovereign nation. We are usurping their authority. And we wonder why they hate us.
Well that’s one of the more fucked up and asinine things I’ve heard in a while.
You know countries can refuse aide, right? Nobody is forcing them to accept the money. Because, you know, they’re a sovereign nation with the authority to make decisions for themselves. You even said it yourself
Would our government accept aid from China
China offering us aid doesn’t “usurpe our authority”. How the heck did you even come up with that nonsense.
But hey, believe whatever you want. Me, I think we should take responsibility for the harm we’ve done to the world and offer to make amends in some way or another. I don’t think it’s right to take a shit in somebody else’s yard and tell them it’s their problem. But again, that’s me.
Maybe it Britain hadn’t fucked up the entire region when the sun didn’t set on their empire, Afghanistan would have a higher standard of living. We’ll still never know.
Afghanistan has been wrecked by many, not just Britain. The Soviets, and other empires in the past
You’re painting a false dichotomy. We can take care of all these domestic issues, and we can give foreign aide. It wouldn’t even be hard, it would require a small fraction of the military budget or a slight to most increase of taxes on corporations and the ultra rich.
But some people don’t want to give money to poor/starving people, regardless of how much it costs. You could end all foreign aide and all the money would just go… somewhere else that isn’t poor people’s pockets.
I wasn’t aware we had solved the domestic issues.
You know, sometimes Republicans can be right for the wrong reasons.
She’s not right at all though, so it doesn’t apply here.
Some libertarians were right that it was a bad idea to invade and destroy the country, but not sending aid after fucking everything up for 20 years is just irresponsible and cruel.
Is Walther your dog? I love golden retrievers. I was unknowingly concern trolling. That aid was part of a $816 billion military spending bill. My complaint was more about the rage posting. Getting people to hate on Republicans without looking at the bigger picture. How is the aid distributed? How do we know women get it when the Taliban is in control? What are we getting in return? None of that is answered in the article.
Why does American taxpayers have to fund aid for the rest of the world? Not morally, practically. Why can’t Japan or Germany do this?
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The US spent two decades sapping what resources the country had in the name of “bringing democracy” and then just abandoned them to the Taliban. Humanitarian aid is the bare minimum for any wealthy country, let alone the one that fucked everything up.
I agree. The point and question I was trying to explore was: Should the country that burned down the house be the one that offers to rebuild it? We could give that money to international organizations. Maybe they will. Which is good. The article doesn’t say that though, it just wants you to hate Republicans.
Yes the country that burned down the house should ABSOLUTELY help pay for the rebuilding and it can by law not give money to NGOs to do it as that would jeopardise their neutrality. As for private citizens voluntarily donating to humanitarian aid charities, that’s unreliable at the best of times and dwindles significantly as the economic situation of the people worsens.
And yeah, regardless of anything else, it IS justified to spend a lot of time criticizing something that is genuinely abhorrent, such as wanting to deprive starving and oppressed people of aid under the flimsiest of pretenses.
https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/middle_e/afghanistan/assist0901.html
Did you even look?
Wow, that’s great. Now we don’t have to give aid.
So instead of thinking “Oh we should do this since every other nation is doing it. It’s not abnormal”
You think “Let’s let some other chump take the loss”
Says a lot about you.
He says as he steps over the homeless guy outside his door.
Or we could because we have a long history of helping people, which shows them that maybe we’re not evil.
Yeah, I think its interesting how the humanitarian rations the US donates are labeled “Food gift from the People of the United States of America.” It seems to largely want to make it clear its coming from the US.
Bro really pulled a “are there no workhouses”
I was trying to pose a question about colonialism and American hegemony, it did not go well
Guys, guys, trust me, America is good and never does anything bad. Trust me.
