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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Gutting USAID
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 16:26:42 -0500
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On 2/4/2025 1:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2025 at 10:06:41 AM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/4/2025 12:20 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   On Feb 3, 2025 at 7:43:51 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   On 2/3/2025 8:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>     The press is running for the fainting couch over Trump setting DOGE
>>>>> loose on
>>>>>     USAID with plans to gut the entire organization.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     Here's a small taste of what USAID has been doing with your tax money:
>>>>>     
>>>>>     --$1.5 million to advance DEI programs in Serbia's workplaces
>>>>>     
>>>>>     --$70,000 to produce a DEI musical in Ireland
>>>>>     
>>>>>     --$47,000 to produce a transgender opera in Colombia
>>>>>     
>>>>>     --$32,000 to publish a transgender comic book in Peru
>>>>>     
>>>>>     ...and the list goes on.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     They don't need to just put a stop to outrageous spending of tax
>>>>> dollars on
>>>>>     crap like this, they need to burn down the entire organization and start
>>>>>   from
>>>>>     scratch.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     Why, as an American taxpayer, do I even care if Serbia's workplaces have
>>>>>   DEI,
>>>>>     let alone want to spend millions on it?!? If Serbia wants DEI, they can
>>>>> damn
>>>>>     well fund it themselves.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     Same with Ireland. If it loves DEI so much it wants to praise it in the
>>>>> form
>>>>>     of musical theater, then Ireland can pay for it.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     And Colombia... and Peru. Why in the fuck are we spending untold
>>>>> amounts of
>>>>>     our money on this crap in the first place, let alone for other countries?
>>>>
>>>>   Some backward nations don't recognize DEI as an unpardonable scourge...
>>>   
>>>   Again, if they want it, they can fucking pay for it themselves. It's not my
>>>   responsibility as an American taxpayer to fund DEI musicals in goddam
>>> Ireland,
>>>   for fucks sake.
>>
>> DEI isn't inherently evil, but merely suffering from a transformation
>> into religion ...which inevitably few principles survive.  Its positive
>> values, otoh, may be as worthy as any of being spread.
> 
> Then Ireland can pay for it themselves. They're a first-world modern country.
> If they want DEI musicals, they can pay their own bills.

But we're in the business of exporting our virtues, at least nominally. 
So, to me, you'd have to argue that these are just virtue-*signaling*.