Science — including medicine, food systems, public health, agriculture, energy, and more — is inherently political because it deals with shared resources and collective decisions. That has been true for centuries and will remain true as long as science shapes how society functions.
Funding, supply chains, and public‑health infrastructure aren’t “partisan politics.” They’re the systems that determine whether vaccines reach the people who need them. When those systems are disrupted, vaccination rates fall, and preventable diseases return.
That’s not partisan, it’s a factual description of how global public health works. Ignoring policy would mean ignoring the real‑world conditions that make vaccination possible in the first place.
If everything in history or science makes you comfortable, you're not really engaging with either. If you chose to turn away from science because it's "political," you never really supported or understood it.
It wouldn't matter who did this; they'd be called out for the same reasons. Your lack of comprehension is breathtaking. But while we're on the subject, there is a fair and objective argument to be made that Donald Trump is the worst and least competent president in U.S. history. It's textbook kakistocracy.
Maybe because policies of the US and other developed countries often helped to strip resources and destabilize the countries that receive USAID help...
And other countries, especially China and Russia, likely will 'pick up the slack' and then gain influence in all of those countries.
So let them gain influence. What good did it do us? They hate our guts.
You say it's our fault that they're poor. We, as in the US, didn't colonize them. Colonizers didn't lobotomize them, did they? What were they doing before Europeans came? Can't they go back to the status quo ante?
What you fail to realize is that we've done them no favors by making them dependent on us. The overarching theme of the Trump Administration is to get people to take care of themselves so we don't have to take care of them, which is an unsustainable burden, as evidenced by our $40 trillion debt. That includes our NATO allies paying for their own defense and the Third World standing on its own two feet. To think that they can't is the soft bigotry of low expectations, or more likely progressive propaganda to feel good about yourselves and preserve NGO jobs sustained by perpetual poverty and dependency.
The greens have also kept the dark continent literally in the dark by suppressing use fossil fuel use.
Much of the aid never reaches the people anyway, at least not for free. The elites, their real oppressors, skim it or make them pay for it.
Help me out some. What evidence would convince you? You seem to have deeply held beliefs, which are often resistant to evidence and reason. What would change your understanding?
You people need to stick with the science of vaccines, and leave partisan politics out of your posts.
Wilful ignorance causing deaths. That’s the science. And politics. Both may be wrong. But they are serious subjects to discuss. Not ignore
Stick with science. If you’re going to get political, I for one will stop reading you.
Science — including medicine, food systems, public health, agriculture, energy, and more — is inherently political because it deals with shared resources and collective decisions. That has been true for centuries and will remain true as long as science shapes how society functions.
Funding, supply chains, and public‑health infrastructure aren’t “partisan politics.” They’re the systems that determine whether vaccines reach the people who need them. When those systems are disrupted, vaccination rates fall, and preventable diseases return.
That’s not partisan, it’s a factual description of how global public health works. Ignoring policy would mean ignoring the real‑world conditions that make vaccination possible in the first place.
If everything in history or science makes you comfortable, you're not really engaging with either. If you chose to turn away from science because it's "political," you never really supported or understood it.
This is just TDS hype.
You are a quick reader!
This is just cognitive dissonance typical of the MAGA cult. Nothing new here.
It wouldn't matter who did this; they'd be called out for the same reasons. Your lack of comprehension is breathtaking. But while we're on the subject, there is a fair and objective argument to be made that Donald Trump is the worst and least competent president in U.S. history. It's textbook kakistocracy.
Explain to me why the countries that get USAID can't take care if themselves.
Explain to me why, despite eons of evolutionary precedents, they will not adapt to their cheese being moved.
Explain to me why the other G-7, OECD, and WTO members (can you say China?) can't pick up whatever slack is left by our actions.
Dispel for me the aspersions cast by the Administration on the massive corruption and leftist ops prevalent in the USAID.
Then (perhaps) we can have an intelligent conversation on the subject.
Maybe because policies of the US and other developed countries often helped to strip resources and destabilize the countries that receive USAID help...
And other countries, especially China and Russia, likely will 'pick up the slack' and then gain influence in all of those countries.
So let them gain influence. What good did it do us? They hate our guts.
You say it's our fault that they're poor. We, as in the US, didn't colonize them. Colonizers didn't lobotomize them, did they? What were they doing before Europeans came? Can't they go back to the status quo ante?
What you fail to realize is that we've done them no favors by making them dependent on us. The overarching theme of the Trump Administration is to get people to take care of themselves so we don't have to take care of them, which is an unsustainable burden, as evidenced by our $40 trillion debt. That includes our NATO allies paying for their own defense and the Third World standing on its own two feet. To think that they can't is the soft bigotry of low expectations, or more likely progressive propaganda to feel good about yourselves and preserve NGO jobs sustained by perpetual poverty and dependency.
The greens have also kept the dark continent literally in the dark by suppressing use fossil fuel use.
Much of the aid never reaches the people anyway, at least not for free. The elites, their real oppressors, skim it or make them pay for it.
Don't be naive.
Help me out some. What evidence would convince you? You seem to have deeply held beliefs, which are often resistant to evidence and reason. What would change your understanding?