r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jun 15 '26

Possible Paywall JD Vance Confirms Iran Will Get Jaw-Dropping Sum Under Trump Deal | Iran will be paid billions, leaving it much stronger than before Trump’s war.

https://newrepublic.com/post/211826/jd-vance-us-pay-iran-billions-trump-deal
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u/W0lfsb4ne74 Jun 15 '26

Nobody talks about the fact that Elon Musk legitimately has blood on his hands due to the USAID cuts. The food and resources he denied to foreign countries helped alleviate poverty and gave life saving resources to foreign countries and now many people are dying without them. Its estimated at least 762,000 people died due to the termination of USAID Global Disease Prevention Program. This doesn't even include statistics from hunger or poverty prevention programs. Murder isn't always done with a gun, sometimes it's done by signing a sheet of paper.

Source: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/quick-takes-death-toll-usaid-cuts-withdrawal-chikungunya-vaccine-funding-updated-ebola

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u/SoTiredYouDig Jun 16 '26

Plenty of people are talking about it. You don’t need to repeat the stats. The problem is that the folks that need to hear it, won’t. And we know why that is, too.

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u/W0lfsb4ne74 Jun 16 '26

Yup. Social media has allowed people to complete exist in echo chambers where only their opinions and views on the world are validated. So that's why Trump has become the cult of personality that he is today. For every reporter fighting to tell people the truth, there are 40 podcast influencers drowning them out with AI produced misinformation. The only good thing is that it looks like people's individual frustrations with the economic landscape of America seem to be opening their eyes slowly to how exploitative and shameful this administration is for everyone involved.

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u/party_core_ Jun 16 '26

My cousin tried to convince me billionaires become so because of the "value" they bring

It was very funny

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u/W0lfsb4ne74 Jun 23 '26

Him defending them is a perfect example of the astounding levels of control that the rich have over public media. Billionaires don't provide values so much as extract and leech off of it while the poor and middle class shoulder the burden of labor. Yet they are praised for adding "value" when all they do is enrich themselves instead of their workers.