What was USAid?
It’s the organization that manages all of the official external humanitarian aid from the US government. It does everything from food distribution to micro loans in developing countries.
It provided funding to Ukraine, Irsael, and Egypt among other things.
Now it provides funding to Israel and Egypt.
And soon to Russia.
State Department regime change operationan aid organization.Also you can read this link if you accept a more opinionated article:
Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network?
A branch of the state department that sows dissent and destabilizes countries that don’t bend the knee to the US.
Fun fact, they’re still providing USAID funding to Israel and Egypt but stopped providing funding to Ukraine.
Trump executive order requiring the state and all state-funded education institutes to not acknowledge Ukrainian as a language separate from Russian coming in 3…
Wow, I guess I better get used to a ton of USA events and news per day for the next years.
It keeps burning the wick at this rate and you’ll only have to deal with it for months
Probably not. Sooner rather than later most free press will be shut down by trump and the only news that anyone will get is whatever there government wants you to hear. Stories like this will disappear.
That’s already the case.
Do you remember every single mainstream outlet falling in line to promote the Iraq war? To blackout the antiwar protests? Going to Occupy Wallstreet and interviewing random weirdos instead of the organizer’s designated press people? The coverage of Ukraine? The coverage of Israel?
Don’t you think that’s a bit of a hysterical take?
Stories like this one, someone noticing that a website has been taken down, will disappear??
It’s hardly the peak of investigative journalism or a complicated story requiring hundreds of hours of work by a trained journalist.
Hysterical as in funny? It’s already happening.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fcc-investigation
If you cut off a story before it’s printed, you never even have to take it down.
No, I mean hysterical as in overly exaggerated due to high emotion.
Well, you’re just wrong on that front given the examples shown
The examples given are about Trump limiting access for news agencies to the government, and trying to bully big news orgs. How would those things prevent someone writing a story about a public website disappearing?
Don’t get me wrong, what he’s doing is bad for press freedom and will have a chilling effect on the more complicated stories that need more journalistic input and explanation to gain traction and public understanding, but as I said “this kind of story” isn’t exactly complicated and saying “stories like this will disappear” is just not realistic.
I’m pretty sure by “stories like this” they’re referring to ones that highlight the activities of the Trump administration, not literally stories about websites going down (if that’s a mischaracterization of what you’re saying, I apologize, but I’m not sure what your meaning was if not that)
Have you watched the news in the US in the time period since the original post? Has any news media even mentioned this? A post on mastodon is great. I would venture that 99% of the population from the US doesn’t use Mastodon, tho I don’t really know for sure the numbers . Of the percentage that do, how many are going to see this person’s post?
Via NPR:
A question of legality
The question of the legality of any attempt to change the status of USAID is connected to its origins. The agency was created in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order after Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act, which mandated the creation of an independent agency to focus on development separate from politics and the military. The agency was formally established by Congress as an independent agency in 1998.
That means “it cannot just be undone, at this point, by an executive order,” Konyndyk said. “To actually disestablish the agency and dissolve it into the State Department will take an act of Congress.”
Source: Why does Musk want USAID ‘to die’? And why did its website disappear? : Goats and Soda
I’m doubtful relying on congress is any comfort either however.
lmao Trump accidentally defunding US soft power. Who is going to pay the CIA to train torturers and traffic drugs now?
Really silly question tbh. Trafficking drugs pays for itself and the torture. The CIA may be the only government agency making a net profit.
Is it an accident?
Trump (and specifically, the heritage foundation) believe in isolationism. Alienating its geopolitical and geographical neighbors serves that purpose. Think of it as the groundwork for a full North Korea style break from non-state controlled culture.
He’s going to utterly crash the US economy he’s not going to be able to pull it off.
How many authoritarian nations do you know with excellent, well-functioning economies? Do you think good class mobility serves any purpose for a regime like Putin’s, or Kim Jong Un’s? Destroying our economy is part of the plan.
In 2016, Trump’s issue with Libya was that we didn’t send troops in to steal their oil, and then make a deal with whatever faction was willing to sell us the oil cheaply. Same with Iraq. You’re are wildly overestimating his moral character if you think he is trying to dismantle the american empire.
Got anything more recent than 50 years ago?
There’s that time they tried to do a counter-revolution in Cuba in 2016, the whole using a USAID-administered vaccination program to find Osama Bin Laden, causing a backlash against vaccines, that time the USAID pier in Gaza had a humanitarian aid truck filled with Israeli soldiers proceed to kill nearly 300 people, with air support.
Alright so hold on, USAID is not equipped to stop the Israeli military. So that’s right out. And the vaccination ruse was a CIA operation.
It is interesting to see that USAID has an office meant to react to rapidly changing political situations. But there are several things about the Cuban Internet story. First, obviously it’s not torture and similar stupid stuff. Second, from the article it looks like it was never properly authorized and was beyond what USAID is meant to do.
The entire Western world maintains that he won that election. So we’re going to disagree on that right away. Then if you read what it was for it’s literally aid funds not weapons or such. Then it’s not even flowing through Guaido, but local NGOs instead.
You may want to read the articles you use as sources before using them.
Oh, you’re a neoliberal, that explains a lot. I guess you wont care about any actions that override another countries Democratic process when its funneled through NGOs or provides America a strategic advantage.
Condescending conservatives who are naive enough to take the most milquetoast yahoo news explanation at face value are not going to be worth discussion, because yalls politics actually align with USAids mission plan.
Wow that’s quite a leap. You’re the one who brought a Yahoo news article to the discussion. Now it’s not to be trusted? So bring one you do trust. And the entire point is that we are trying to respect the democratic process in Venezuela. Saying I have the army so I win is not a democratic process.
Guaido boycotted the election btw and declared himself the winner with no votes
Wow, you really shot yourself in the foot there
The point I was illustrating is that USAID is and always was a tool of the CIA.
USAID is absolutely equipped to tell the Israeli military “We’re not going to give you one of our trucks and a landing pad for a blackhawk at our pier”.
How are they equipped to do that? Are you going to stand there in the way of an army with your clipboard?
And I’m sorry but Internet access and social media doesn’t evoke scary secret agent the way you’re trying to use it. At best it’s the furthest extent of soft power, which is USAID’s purpose. At worst it’s an unsanctioned covert program that got shut down and swept under the rug.
Yes, they are equipped to not hand over their resources. They’re also equipped to not lie and cover it up afterwords.
Okay so a few things here. USAID wasn’t even on that side of the delivery system, that was WFP. Far from covering it up, the raid was headline news and is covered in an OIG report on the pier. Finally, USAID is not a military organization. If a military unit lands near them and demands a truck they are going to hand it over. They do not possess weapons or training. This entire line of argument is ridiculous.
It is far easier to knock something down than to bring something up.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will Durant
Life is an anthology of destruction. Everything you build eventually breaks. Everyone you love will die. Any sense of order or stability inevitably crumbles. The entire universe follows a dismal trek toward a dull state of ultimate turmoil.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/
The perma stun proceeds
deleted by creator
🎶 Just want one thing, just to play the king
But the castle’s crumbled and you’re left with just a name 🎵USAID is corruption central and a job program for certain type of “american”
That’s awesome. One less headcount for federal budget.
Hahah you’re right fuck people looool
