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Anastasis

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  1. Good. Then they should be resilient to a full and transparent auditing of their spending.
  2. We are not talking about the precious bolts holding your ledge to the wall. This notion that if you cut out a wasteful component of government spending, it's mad max, anarchy, no roads, no electricity, no "anything", we all devolve to hairless apes...I mean, you just tell on yourself.
  3. Some people really going lose their minds when people try to reduce government waste. We'll live.
  4. If the things that you are telling me are so fucking essential (and I tend to agree that they are good things that we should be doing) make up less than 1% of the USAID budget, USAID is non-essential.
  5. Unelected billionaire vs. unelected bureaucrats. Meh Constitutional order. LOL.
  6. Dre Day Super Bowl halftime really let that cat out the bag.
  7. Well, that would seem to be the problem wouldn't it.
  8. I did. https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=fa5b8804726e08fa628d7594c8617985
  9. How much of the budget specifically goes to this function? It's amazing how easily distracted people are.
  10. Your neighbors must really take their monoculture lawn seriously.
  11. Code monkey savants? LOL. Elon is weaponizing the autists. Agree that this does not ensure competency, but fully watching people react.
  12. All thing will right themselves eventually. Or they will fail. And that is ok.
  13. Imagine having your loyalty to your country questioned by absolute bottom of barrel intellects, and otherwise intelligent people that are just totally sold on foreign policy delusions.
  14. You know more than most how this stuff works. Compartmentalize it to a social media program and pivot to contrails if you must. You know what this it is, and know that it is rife for waste fraud and abuse. I am also not worried about seeing it go. I understand people getting upset about how it is being done. Polite gets us nowhere. Just delay, deflect, and distract.
  15. Cite. I mean this is common knowledge stuff. Start here. https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/
  16. Every foreign country, and especially a former kgb agent, knows an IC cut out when they see it. USAID was literally funding the torture training of South American police. It’s amazing how naive some of you are.
  17. You misspelled "high quality content," sir.
  18. Literal low grade idiot that gets a pass only because political alignment makes people stupid and/or blinded.
  19. I've never negged anyone that didn't deserve it. Count is like 50. Mostly bots and scam posters.
  20. Lurkers are the primary audience that is movable. If we convert a few of them to posters, one way or the other, the community benefits. If you want to auto-ignore anyone it should be the clowns like you with 500 neg reps that try to stifle any discussion content that you find out of center. Watch some videos from the DNC over the weekend. It's amazing stuff.
  21. Sorry. Doesn't meet the prime objective. Reject.
  22. One of the absolutely saddest things to watch over the last decade plus has been the devolution of any political challenge to just "putin" talking points. That this actually resonates with otherwise intelligent individuals just exemplifies how far we have fallen off. It's like a politically mystical incantation that makes some people willfully shut down their brain.
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