I think you make a good point and are more nuanced about it as well. I mainly objected to the framing in the article and title, and that it takes so much effort to parse.

Has there been any information on what support, if any, has replaced USAID since its funding cut? I’m for helping those in need but I dont trust America frankly. An international aid organization would be a better fit than one run by the US government.

Www.impactcounter.com/methodology

Its the source linked in the article a few paragraphs down.

Well I though reading the methodology of the source material was more accurate, but I guess fuck me right?

Sure, get angry rather than grapple with an idea you disagree with.

People care about people suffering, they dont care about our countries ability to bully other nations through various means.

This isn’t 600,000 recorded deaths to date, its an estimate based on the reduction in budget. Reducing the budget reduces maximum capability, which means its estimated that 600,000 people would have died by now.

The people you disagree with aren’t idiots, they don’t care about strategic power or geopolitics. You understand people may have different values than you right?

Somehow I doubt I’d be better received there. Anti-china propaganda runs deep all over.

I never was on reddit.

Great reply, no worries they removed my comment so you can feel safe now.

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Then they can go live in a country where you can take from society and contribute nothing back.

ML doesnt think the labor used to create these items is slave labor. ML generally thinks its hypocritical for one of the few countries to have legal systemic slavery to going around claiming all of its “enemies” use slave labor. ML also likes to note how cultural differences often are exaggerated or reframed to use as nationalistic propaganda.

America puts a lot of effort into trying to convince the rest of the world that China is a horrible country.

We know he competed with Epstein to take a child’s virginity, how much worse can it get?

There’s already proof, its disgusting to read too. People should be posting the transcripts of his victims testimony.

You do realize that having witty quotes doesnt change anything right? It might be rhetorically effective at face value, but there is no value other than hate at display here.

Because thats what adults do, they are capable of communicating and being near people with different values and opinions.

Yeah mine had switches on it to power all the peripherals too, and they lit up bright orange.

You are right that every country has its problems, and the larger the country the larger the problems can be. All I’m saying is, if I had to bet on one countries future as just an average citizen, I’d choose China easily. I appreciate the sources, its a hard subject to learn about objectively.

Got any sources? Anything from the last 10 or 15 years?