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Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie
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The Dems should make some mention about this on the Sunday morning shows, if they were smart about it.
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No one dumb and selfish enough to vote for Trump will care about the suffering of people outside the US.
I mean yes, but the Democratic voting base will. Then promising to restore international aid would probably secure a good number of first and second generation immigrants' votes.
I personally know Christians who voted for Trump (yeah I know, but bear with me) that would care very much, as they actually do missionary work overseas to help the kind of people that would be affected by this cancellation.
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lemmy guess, single-issue voters
No, according to one of them they thought the country needed fixing, and he's the one to do it. Wrong direction, pricing, that sort of thing.
I think they were religiously anti-woke, but didn't want to come out and say it straight.
Funny enough, they were one of those who does missionary work. I plan on asking them again after the USAID changes filters down and affects people more forcefully.
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People who think a person who handled COVID like trump did is an is the right person to manage a "crisis" he worked hard contributing to?!:D
Any response from you about my mentioning how some Christians also care? ...
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that was the question:D
I noticed you edited your comment, removing you quoting of my license, which is what I was asking about, you responding to the license, and not to the comment.
I appreciate the edit.
P.S. Love the user name. Nice play on words with Dune involved.
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this license thing is funny and all, but if you get distracted from the conversation if someone accidentally pulls it in a quote then it's quite counterproductive. we've now had 3 posts revolving around it, and still no answer to the original question.
Well, I'm not a mind reader, and if I had to guess if it was purposeful, or accidental, based on my history here on Lemmy, I'll consider it purposeful every time.
Actually I responded, while you were typing your comment. I just wanted to do it in a separate comment, to segregate the two issues being discussed.
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Are you implying they care about the suffering of people within the US? Because they verifiably do not...
No, that's literally not what they implied. You're unironically doing the "so you hate waffles?" thing.
They literally implied that by including "outside the US", otherwise the inclusion of those words are entirely meaningless?
The inclusion of those words is in the context of the post, which only talks about aid to people outside the US. Why would they talk about people inside the US or even imply they care about those people?
If I say I like the outside, that doesn't imply I hate staying inside. You logic is akin to insisting I hate staying inside because I wouldn't have included the word outside if I wasn't trying to imply that.