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by brookst 460 days ago
> I'd bet MAGA wouldn't want more people there to get HIV

That is incredibly charitable. Kudos, I guess, but not at all in line with what I’ve seen.

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If it were free, I guarantee every single maga republican I know would be ok with it.

It's an issue of tradeoffs, and the tradeoffs were never clearly articulated even to me the most staunch supporter of foreign aid. We've just accepted it and all such programs because we can see, because we trust, that the analysis was done and is valid.

Government does not currently have that level of trust with half the country, and worse has active distrust.