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It looks like Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government could put people’s lives at risk across the world.

USAID provided, among other things, funding for groups advocating for human rights and democratic reforms in states mired by autocratic regimes, as a form of U.S. soft power in places such as Russia. When Musk gutted the agency earlier this month, he baselessly claimed that USAID was “laundering” taxpayer funds into far-left sources.

Now Russia wants to know exactly where the money was going. Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian State Duma, asked the U.S. Tuesday for a list of individuals and opposition groups in Russia who received money from USAID.

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[–] cm0002 94 points 4 days ago

USAID provided, among other things, funding for groups advocating for human rights and democratic reforms in states mired by autocratic regimes, as a form of U.S. soft power in places such as Russia.

Ohhhhh, that's why the .ml tankies have been cheering on the dismantling of USAID. As usual, just more Russian propaganda that they are all too happy to push :/

[–] Soup 50 points 4 days ago

In a world where evil is this fucking obvious you’d think propoganda would struggle to work properly, and yet…

Like, we can’t even satirize conservatives properly because they keep doing shit that’s way worse super publicly and without any shame.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Everyone over at ML got a boner.

[–] Makeitstop 28 points 4 days ago

I really hate this "real news or the onion" guessing game.

[–] gibmiser 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I knew that was what this was all about. Fucking traitors.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

Dont forget that USAID played a role in dismantling Apartheid South Africa, which Musk has a personal grudge against.

[–] Hobbes_Dent 10 points 4 days ago

Everyone knows it’ll happen and everyone is ok with it.

Killers.

[–] eran_morad 8 points 4 days ago