Trump is ripping off America and calling it anti-woke.

What DOGE and the Republicans are doing is deliberately making things worse for everyone but the top 1%. It's not about DEI, but about the entire US public sector. They know, however, that if they play to culture-war issues, then some people will support them, Even though many of those same people depend on government services that they are currently in the act of torching.

Own the Libs by Letting Corporations Own You

This is a classic line from an article that gets right to the heart of it.

https://jacobin.com/2025/02/donald-trump-dei-anti-woke

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Reason10 · 70-79, M

DOGE is ripping off America? What about this?

$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
“Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Reason10 Yup. America is just plain corrupt. It doesnt matter which side you are on...😷