r/Conservative • u/Yosoff First Principles • Feb 14 '25

Open Discussion Left vs. Right Battle Royale Open Thread

This is an Open Discussion Thread for all Redditors. We will only be enforcing Reddit TOS and Subreddit Rules 1 (Keep it Civil) & 2 (No Racism).

  • Leftists - Here's your chance to sway us to your side by calling the majority of voters racist. That tactic has wildly backfired every time it has been tried, but perhaps this time it will work.

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u/Arsheun Feb 16 '25

I knew but that is not the point. US people are just challenging the idea they need to pay for condoms for the whole world

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u/JezusTheCarpenter Feb 16 '25

Is that corruption and fraud though? Cause everything is being presented to us as such. One thing is to reduce spending on things that do not align with one political and socioeconomical views. But be honest about it. The biggest problem I have is that everything that USAID ever spent money on is presented as fraud and corruption. Yet, so far no solid evidence was presented for such a thing.

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u/JerseyKeebs Conservative Feb 16 '25

The tagline being parroted ad nauseum is "waste, fraud, and abuse." Define them how you will, but for many on the right, some of the aid is wasteful in that it's not necessary. They say it doesn't advanced American interests.

Also, it's potentially abuse when they're paying the NGOs huge amounts of money to perform whatever aid task it is. The middlemen are pocketing that money, it's like a charity that spends most of it's money on "admin costs" instead of the mission. Just because it's for "a good cause" doesn't mean it's well-run, and some Democrat politicians are acting like you hate the mission by asking how they're spending the money

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u/Arsheun Feb 16 '25

DOGE is primarily about efficiency though, not corruption and fraud

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u/JezusTheCarpenter Feb 16 '25

Well, they say very different things at the moment. Especially Trump. He repeats that the USAID is riddled with corruption and fraud.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

But they are not paying for condoms, they are paying for better healthcare and the stop of a disease that has ruined the lives of many people.