I feel called out, you even got an image of me.
Study after study has shown that the ROI for foreign aid is positive and indicative of an overall positive effect for the country giving the aid.
I'm only writing that to express that there are no moral and no economical reasons to reduce foreign aid. Even the right should be in favour of aid, as it lessens the amount of immigration and asylum and has a positive effect on GDP.
The only reasons to reduce foreign aid are populism, a change in political culture of the receiver (for example giving less money to Israel) and to shuffle it around in the budget, for example what Germany did with its infrastructure costs... declaring them a military necessity to be able to increase the military budget to appease Trump while still repairing our roadways.
But that is afaik not happening here... this is stupid populism.
Oh goodness, 24 years ago I was uninformed, narrowminded and had been brought up sheltered and rather conservative. So I used to be hugely trans- and homophobic. I wasn't actively hurting or confronting anyone, but I was definitely a big part of the problem.
It actually was webcomics that deprogrammed me. That showed me a world I simply did not know but quickly felt empathy for. Those were normal, lovely people who simply existed differently from me, they weren't a threat and they had so many struggles pushed on them only for being different.
Today I'm far-left, progressive, super empathetic, happy that a lesbian friend calls me "one of the good ones" and that I, as a huuuuuge white cis guy, can be an ally and create a safe space around me for everyone who needs it.
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(Dying, dying)
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Heil Trump
Trump’s political signature, like all fascist signatures, has always followed only but one purpose: his. In his world, the concept of We exists only as tapestry-booster for his ego and his self-importance as a projection screen for his feverish supporters. It is a cult, not a legacy. The US president is not a king, he is a fascist.
Uhhh, strong or agnostic atheism? And what's your take on Buddhism?
I'm a huge guy, 6'8" and immensely heavy, people do a double take when I tell them I can and do windsurf.
Tara Stark hat eine nette Schkiste
AfD already has a track record of russian support/money and chinese spies.
Wadden Sea Sad, surprisingly beautiful, slowly rising, then falling again in a cycle of hope-filled getting better and soul-crushing relapsing.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
If you want JUST DÖNER, but also crave other things.
Sorry about the image-quality, was a drive-by-📸. It says JUST DÖNER — döner and more
If they can elect a felon to the white house, so could we.
Edit: Better image, thanks to @PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee
I kicked a decrepit german shepard to death.
WHY?!
Wasn't my fault really, the owner had trained his dog to be aggressive and I was deathly afraid of dogs. The animal escaped the leash and charged me, I don't know if it would have bitten me, but I instinctively kicked it in the face... I'm an extremely overweight guy and was scared shitless, that's propably why my leg had some serious power behind it, so I kicked that poor puppies snout straight into its braincase.Still have nightmares of that day. Good news is: I have sinced learned to be less afraid and love dogs now. I even regularly put my hand down the throat of a huge japanese Akita Inu who loves me to death and pull on his teeth in play.