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USAID saved millions of lives

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she/her, daughter of immigrants pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…

USAID saved millions of lives @asholpost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

here's the archived page from september 2025, months after usaid had been gutted. still there: web.archive.org/web/20250908212929/https://www.dsausa.org/dsa-political-platform-from-2021-convention/

archive of 2021 platform shown on dsa's official website dated from september 2025

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USAID saved millions of lives @asholpost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this wasn't some guy's claim. it was in dsa's national platform, adopted at their 2021 convention, word for word:

Abolish USAID, NED, Voice of America, and other governmental agencies that cynically disguise capitalist control as aid and journalism.

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USAID saved millions of lives @asholpost.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

also this is real:

Only questions that can be reduced to a pure conflict between good and evil interest them. They generally reject any nuanced view of these issues as an effort to distract from the question at hand and drain the necessary moral fervor (though they prefer to call it “moral clarity.”)

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USAID saved millions of lives @asholpost.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

honestly i thought the chait woke piece was spot-on. why the fuck do so many climate groups not do climate anymore? and this really resonated with me

Quote from The Atlantic arguing that Western progressives' involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict oversimplifies a complex historical dispute.

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