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deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 day ago

Capitalism killed 100 million people and all I got was this lousy protein powder.

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Capitalism killed 100 million people and all I got was this lousy protein powder.

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deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 day ago
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  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    the protein powder is contaminated with heavy metals

    • deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      the heavy metals provide essential nutrients

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Shoving the knife in 10 inches and pulling it out 2 doesn’t lead to healing, but neither does the new policy of “stab stab stab stab stab.”

    • deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      the duality of psychopath murderers.

  • Johnny_Arson [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    It probably did cause a lot of deaths but it also probably prevented more.

    • deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      It’s capitalism keeping people on starvation portions rather than letting countries determine their own destiny. USAID was a front for some of the most evil shit.

  • deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    sauce

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    Ending the aid is obviously deplorable, but how is capitalism at fault for this generally? Did capitalism get points for providing the aid in the first place? Seems like you just had an axe to grind.

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      USAID was one of the tendrils the US used with which to carry out regime change operations and put countries in the global south on the hook for aid rather than building up infrastructure so they can provide it themselves. This established power and control over these countries keeping millions of people in poverty and through destabilisation efforts and regime change killing millions more.

      Socialists very much consider the end of USAID to be a positive overall. Much like socialists very much want to see the end of nato. The ending of USAID was the end of an absolutely enormous network of control and power that presented itself as a good thing but very much was not. The neoliberals were educated enough to understand its benefit to US imperialism, the right on the other hand can’t bear even pretending to be nice anymore so they tore it down and took the mask off the US as a fake positive force in the world.

      https://liberationnews.org/usaid-the-humanitarian-face-of-colonial-exploitation/

      https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/usaid-trump-musk-history-controversies/

      https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/3/why-some-in-the-global-south-are-not-mourning-the-demise-of-usaid

      Has its end brought about immediate harm to some of its recipients? Yes. But compared to the harm it has done or would further do going into the future this is far smaller, which is why you did not see anyone left of liberal upset about its end. Except of course the nato ““leftists”” that wear the aesthetics of the left but really are still just neoliberals in policy.

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        Also there’s enough food produced every year to feed everyone. Failure to do so is a failure of capitalism to rationally distribute it to meet human needs: Under capitalism there are populations that it is not profitable to feed adequately, and these people are often unable to even subsistence farm because they are economically chained to monoculture for the sake of profit. People who work on farms growing food for people in the west will suffer malnutrition and die because they can’t sell their agricultural produce for enough to buy food.

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      debatejak

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