U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Some people have the audacity to say that Trump’s policies don’t lead to misery and death.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.”

But the data says and projects otherwise.

A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030.

The United States could have been a beacon of hope and a model to look up to. For many years, that was the case for people and immigrants all around the world.

In a matter of months, that has all crumbled to its foundation. It’s so hard to watch.

  • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    No, it was never a model all around the world. The US has been hurting some groups of people for hundreds of years. Don’t think they don’t see it… So foreign aid is good, but don’t get all patriotic on us.

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      My use of ‘all’ was a generalization, not literal. Historically, many people around the world did view the U.S. as a model and a place to aspire to, even as others rightly criticized its actions. My point is that the MAGA slogan claims to be trying restore (something like) that old image, yet their actions only deepen global resentment.

      It would be great to see the US genuinely become a beacon of hope again (and atone for their sins), but I’m not holding my breath. Honestly, I’ve been cheering on other nations to fill that role. I’m not a US nationalist or patriot.

      • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I’m afraid that you aren’t seeing just how bad it really is:

        There are specific dimensions to human-evil:

        • narcissism
        • machiavellianism
        • sociopathy-psychopathy
        • nihilism
        • sadism
        • systemic-dishonesty
        • eradication-of-objectivity
        • eradication-of-considered-reasoning

        ( and possibly others I haven’t found, yet )

        The problem is that MAGA is pushing-the-envelope on ALL these dimensions, simultaneously, & less than 1/4 way through Trump’s 2nd term, he’s got about 1/2 of “Project 2025” implimented.

        People don’t underrstand: *there’s a tipping-point" when it becomes totalitarian-dictatorship, & that point is fast approaching.

        The manufacturing of homelessness, combined with the criminalization of homelessness,

        The law he got enacted that exempts him & his appointees from court-injunctions & related court actions,

        The law he used to de-register Democrat voters, just before the Trump/Harris election,

        The law that allows him to simply remove citizenship from everybody he doesn’t like, “denaturalization”,

        There is NO limit to the evil that they will bee allowed to “legally” enforce, shortly.

        As I tried explaining to the USMC, some time before Sept 11, 2001, “the USMC obeys any LEGAL order” does NOTHING to protect the USMC’s heart/spirit once the law has been rewritten so that murdering babies is now a legal order.

        The reason he’s throwing-around the National Guard sooo much, now, is simply because it’s part of how he’s going to be enforcing his removal-of-rights-from-the-“woke”, from the non-Republican, from the non-White, obviously too, in his enforcement of his confederate-kingdom…

        The only saving-grace is that he’ll be waging war on 3 fronts: war against Canada, because it’s intolerable to him that he doesn’t possess the entire-continent ( that’s why he wants Greenland: to seal-off Canada from Europe, to quicken our butchery )

        war against the US itself, Civil War Part2,

        AND war against the countries to the US’s south, basically all of Central America & much of South America,

        WHILE picking fights with China whenever he can, offshore ( the navy )…

        This is going to be the worst 6-7y that the Americas EVER had, once that tipping-point is crossed.

        ( & anybody who thinks that Russia isn’t going to launch all-out war against Europe once NATO’s butchered, is foolish: China’ll be backing them, North Korea’ll be backing them, & Canada’ll be looking like Ukraine does, right now, if not like the way Mariupol did…

        & China’ll be rampaging Asia, with impunity…

        etc.

        IOW, regional-conquering will be the only thing the world is orienting-to for literally years, until Putin & Trump implode )

        Tipping-points are violations of status-quo, & we’re all unconsciously-wired to ignore violations-of-status-quo, unfortunately…

        IF you’re not with Trump, & you’re in the Americas, please consider arming yourself significantly better than you are now…

        ( I’ve spent my life trying to find the Himilayan-Buddhist-monastery HOME that my soul remembers, from a previous-incarnation/life…

        it is depressing-as-hell to have to say what I just told you, but it is dishonest to even think-of not telling you that.

        I expect that there will be a couple hundred million dead in North America by the early 2030’s, in Trump’s rampaging of our world.

        I expect that there will be a similar percentage dead in Europe then, too.

        Even if I’m wrong by over-estimating-by-factor-of-2, that’d still be … unimaginable for us, now, right?

        US’s Civil War Part2 … civil wars are BAD: the most intense hatred-enforcement of any kind of war.

        I hope that Canada’s Carney finds somebody who can think in the proper frame-of-knowing that CAN stand, systematically, against Trump, because as European journalism has identified, he’s spineless against Trump in the longer-term, & that isn’t strategy: we’re deadmeat, if that remains ruling Canada.

        Financially, he’s got no equal, that I know-of, anywhere near Canadian politics, but … as a war leader??

        As the war-leader in Canada’s Armageddon? )

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