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We just handed Russia new borders to Ukraine. China can start more saber rattling against Taiwan. Fucking ignorant policy.
Correct, horse_battery_staple
You mean he just handed China all of Africa, and more. China loves giving aid for influence.
I don't think it's ignorant. I think Trump is selling America for personal gain. He's been very blatent about all of this.
The freeze affects military aid to Ukraine, Jordan, and Taiwan, while exempting aid to Egypt and Israel.
I was told the genocide was going to stop.
Yes they are going to end all the wars by killing all Palestinians and Ukrainians. They were very clear on that.
The Trump plan to end genocide is to hurry up and get it over with.
No you weren't.
Really?
I wasn’t told that voting against Harris or not voting was going to end the Palestine genocide!?
No, no you weren't. You were explicitly told that allowing and encouraging genocide would end the Harris/Biden campaign; and that America actively participating in genocide would cause the genocide to spread domestically; and that Dems refusing to differentiate themselves on this topic would disincentive voters.
You were not told, at any point, genocide would end with a trump admin. I get liberals tend to have that thing all right wingers have with their memory where you rewrite history to match your current beliefs, but you gotta try harder when you're not in a right wing echo chamber like reddit or x.
So the leftists got mad and made the genocide worse?
It is totally a better choice then having liberals in power and working on getting better choices in the next election.
The important thing isn't stopping genocide. The important thing is that leftists feel good about themselves.
The genocide is not worse. That's not a thing. Genocide is genocide, it grows until it is stopped by force and the parties response are removed from power. Was Harris going to resign and start reforming the US to ensure foreign aid can never go to Israel as along as it's a fascist ethnostate? No, her promise was to continue the genocide.
I'm sorry you'll now have to do something. I'm sorry you'll now suffer the same way you condemned others to suffer. I'm sorry you didn't do more and accepted genocide as a necessary evil like all Nazi civilians that disagreed with Hitler did.
Maybe, just maybe, it's be easier to admit you're wrong and start fighting for the first time in your life.
Admit I’m wrong and start working with the people who brought Trump into power to keep their hands clean?
Sounds as effective as praying.
The genocide is not worse. That’s not a thing.
Yeah, that's not true. Genocides can and do get ramped up and down.
If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.
I have to say it so often it's in my profile. I don't believe I've ever been wrong.
Aren't you that tankie guy?
I'm not going to provide a link, because half of the tankieverse was saying anyone voting Harris is voting genocide and you fucking know it. I of course was banned from the hexbear memes community of all places for suggesting that Trump IS going to be worse and that they all know it but don't care because Trump is the more authoritarian, more pro-Putin choice.
Hard to think of any reason to do this shit beyond outright sabotage.
Fortunately no need to think of other reasons, because that's absolutely the correct one.
Nobody gets to be shocked. Nobody gets to be surprised. This was all literally written down and circulated. I will "go nuclear" on any MF'er who has the gall to say to my face that they didn't expect some bullshit the Trump administration pulls.
For the record, this is not Rubio's decision. This is Trump's decision. These people are all just blindly following Trump's orders.
No, their eyes are open. They are following his orders, but they know what they're doing.
Oh, I'm not saying they aren't. They absolutely know what they're doing and are gleefully marching in lockstep. I'm just saying that Rubio himself didn't come up with this decision. Trump did.
Then you shouldn't use the term blindly following orders. Willfully following orders is more appropriate.
Just handed over the Pacific Islands to China.
Rubio: I'm not so little anymore, Daddy Trump says so!
Eric: My father never calls me little. In fact he never calls me at all.
An incompetent fuckwit doing such things?
Shocking.
Most of US foreign aid goes to Ukraine, Israel and Egypt. Israel and Egypt are usually the traditional top aid recipients. So none of this is "aid" more like pay off money for geo political aims. Charity part of it is very small. And they are cutting it off. So pathetic.