But Kissinger, for all his many, many, many flaws, had a vision of something other than “I like disrupting things and taking ketamine”
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Musk is a racist apartheid nazi.
Yeah, soft-power is a much better tool to exert influence with.
It’s not like that’s $50K into the bank account of one needy family here in the states...
It is a microscopic amount of the budget, meant to provoke an emotional response among people living paycheck to paycheck, being manipulated by the literal richest man in the entire world.
GRIMES HONEY, TELL THE LIBTARDS I’M REALLY GOOD AT PATH OF EXILE!
I can’t keep track of all the BS and what is and isn’t true. But what they are doing is using numbers that look big to average people but in the scheme of things are nothing. Like $50k spent on something is such a small amount per person or household. But it is easy to get people riled up because in personal life, it…
The magats have no conception of what power and strength really are, that’s how they can see a whiny, perpetual victim who was handed everything as a strong man. They are weak cowards and that’s why they fear so many things—real, exaggerated, or imagined, fears are the only things they don’t discriminate against—waving…
A deranged billionaire who regularly converses with Putin has assembled a team of a half dozen babyfaced techbros and they’re literally breaking into secure federal buildings and accessing sensitive systems and data. Neither the people nor the hardware have been vetted. DOGE hasn’t been created by Congress, Muskrat…
the condoms thing was made up bs
Its not that interesting because its actually true. I have a relative who spent decades at an upper level, high security clearance type job in DC for decades and they worked with administrations dating back to Bush Sr. According to them trump did not know what he was doing and neither did most of his cabinet. The…
A few weeks ago, I finally got thru to our conservative neighbors we have on my street... I asked them “what makes the US the most powerful nation in the world.” they immediately responded with “military.” I nodded, and asked them “military is powerful, but whats the most powerful? remember the phrase follow the…
Don’t be surprised. These are the same people who would never believe in a merciful God because they like the idea of an angry, vengeful one so much better.
That’s just “Nazis”.
Nazis, and those who support Nazis, must be ended.
USAID also offers informal insights and intelligence into countries we aren’t typically friendly with. Same as with NGOs - you can learn a lot from just mingling with the locals, which often leads to useful intelligence.
Why is this filthy, Nazi scumbag defiling my country?
Exactly this. I liken it to offering your neighbor a beer on a hot day. Even if you never really socialize with him it at least makes you look like a good guy. And then a few years from now when that tree falls on your mutual fence there’s immediate goodwill to fix the problem together, as opposed to immediately go…
USAID was a form of soft power not unlike the diplomatic services. It was the US doing things that were, at first glance, “merely” charity and aid, but also gave us a lot of less obvious benefits. Once again, we shoot ourselves in the foot for short-term gain, but long-term losses. The world is more chaotic and less…
“Donald Trump and his boss Elon”
Musk was quoted saying, “Who cares about brown babies?” while he completed half a dozen Nazi salutes.