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Cake day: 2023年7月20日

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  • The ‘trivial’ part is intentional and has to do with conditioning this admin’s supporters. There’s a clear pattern of trying to make opposition “cry wolf” on issues that the republican base either agrees with the party on, or ideally dismiss as being entirely unimportant. It’s important (to them) for the MAGA base to not only distrust, but revile sources of information that don’t tow the line.

    So the left sees this issue as a blatant erosion of 1st amendment rights and the right sees a stupid hissy fit about the name of a body of water most of them will never see. When both sides aren’t even close to agreeing whether there even is a problem, they definitely won’t band together to stop the overreach in power.



  • The United Nations collectively runs a lot of aid programs. The EU and China also independently run aid programs. The US is far from being the sole provider of aid.

    Multiple countries provide aid, but all these programs always operate on tighter budgets than they would like. So a big contributor suddenly pulling out is going to leave gaps that are hard for other groups to fill on short notice. Even if the US needs to reduce aid spending to balance the budget, it should be done gradually with coordination of other groups to best preserve coverage. Acting impulsively leads to suffering that could potentially be avoided with a more level-headed change.