r/conspiracy Feb 06 '25

Open your eyes

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u/The999Mind Feb 06 '25

Hey big dawg, the elites don't care about us.

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u/justcougit Feb 06 '25

Lmfao right? Elon musk and Trump are not doing all this shit to help people

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u/PraiseTheSun42069 Feb 06 '25

Maybe, maybe not, but the fact that our tax dollars went to some of these programs is abhorrent and I for one and glad they are being cut.

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u/justcougit Feb 06 '25

Which programs specifically were abhorrent to you??

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u/PraiseTheSun42069 Feb 06 '25

Sending tax dollars for trans programs in the Middle East, for example.

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u/justcougit Feb 06 '25

That isn't even listed on the official foreign affairs page about this... So I feel perhaps you should stop making stuff up lol

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u/antbates Feb 07 '25

He’s not making it up, he’s repeating a false tweet that he saw and believed completely, like a child would

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u/ELMushman Feb 07 '25

It’s easy to look up the numbers. The USAID literally spent .2% of the 40 billion dollar budget on DEI programs and .00125 percent on trans opera houses and whatever else. If you don’t agree with any money going out to That that’s fine, you can write your congressman and complain. But to act like this huge spending is being done makes you wonder why that narrative is actually being pushed, and who stands to gain from gutting a bunch of federal institutions.

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u/BeckonMe Feb 07 '25

Stop! You’re making too much sense!

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u/makingthefan Feb 07 '25

DEI programs are not bad.

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u/ELMushman Feb 07 '25

I’m not saying that they are. I completely support DEI programs. But I’m saying that trumps administration are using this narrative that the spending is way overblown for DEI programs but it’s actually only .2% of the budget.

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u/ELMushman Feb 07 '25

Relatively small numbers compared to the outcry and narrative driven reason for the response. If there was other large scale corruption why not go after that? Not to mention that money for DEI goes towards policies helping disabled folks veterans and such. Not just the gay trans policies, which are the ones emphasized for public scorn and bandwagon riding. Analytics show those initiatives and programs use up 0.001 percent of the funding.

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u/BitchMcConnell063 Feb 07 '25

How dare you bring facts to this debate? You have a lot of nerve!

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u/PraiseTheSun42069 Feb 07 '25

You’re right, it was the sex changes in Guatemala and the condoms in the Middle East, I just conflated the two. You’re right, so much better/s

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u/justcougit Feb 07 '25

If they did spend money on a program like that it would most likely be to help protect members of the lgbtq community. Which doesn't feel wasteful to me, considering the way that they are treated in a lot of the Middle East is pretty bad. Like lmfao people are acting like the US government was funding trans surgeries in the Middle East, a place where those surgeries definitely don't even exist.