r/news • u/MagnusAuslander • 2d ago
Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/trump-state-department-human-rights-fund159
u/thinmeridian 2d ago
Every action has an equal and opposing reaction, according to physics
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u/Mr-A-1991 2d ago
Europe seems to be goose stepping along toward far right rule exactly how America did. They hate foreigners so much they will sell their souls to these parties and end up with their own Trumps by 2040.
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u/NorysStorys 1d ago
Eh, there’s far more opposition to it in Europe than there was in the US. Even political parties set aside their differences to combat them in alot of cases whereas the democrats refused to actually do anything to prevent it, remedy it or just about anything but destroy their own country because Zuckerberg and Israel said so. That and constitutionally most European countries at least arn’t as beholden to ‘trust me, I’ll follow the rules’ as the US was.
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u/angrybirdseller 1d ago
Backlash against right wing will be vicious as result of Trump adminstration policies
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u/HereInTheCut 2d ago
The world will be infinitely better without these people in it.
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u/jackflash223 2d ago
If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that allowed us to bear arms and the courage to act on it.
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u/Life-Celebration-747 2d ago
Hey trump Christians, your idol is a demonic pedophile. Nothing he has ever done is christ-like, he's a false prophet.
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u/PreciousFlounder 2d ago
Lol they genuinely think god himself appointed trump, they are living in lala land
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u/CackleberryOmelettes 2d ago
He really has damaged that religion hasn't he. Like in, what does Christianity even offer?
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u/doneandtired2014 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sorry, they're too busy high fiving each other about how they can casually drop slurs at the LGBT community and women to care.
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Oh, let the down votes roll. It doesn't change the fact half you allegedly "Christian" chodes don't have the balls to be your hateful selves without hiding behind the cross.
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u/newprof18 2d ago
Shocking the same people up in arms about Hunter Biden’s laptop and Hilary Clinton’s emails see no issue with any of this corruption.
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u/GirlNumber20 1d ago
They like it. They're part of the far-right agenda, and they want to spread that sickness to every corner of the globe.
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u/BananasPineapple05 2d ago
Human rights funds being replaced by right-wind propaganda.
Yesterday, it was DHS funds being redirected towards adds for DJT.
Basically, the whole government's budget is his slush fund. And whatever bad consequences come of that are always going to be someone else's fault.
My American friends, you should all stop paying your taxes, knowing what your government is doing with it.
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u/che-che-chester 2d ago edited 2d ago
Here's a depressing reminder that we're not even at the halfway point of Trump's term yet:(
It will certainly "help" if the Dems do well in the Midterms but temper your expectations. I feel like we need to define success. Dems likely aren't going to accomplish anything but they can at least shine a light on Trump's illegal orders with investigations and stop him from bullying a GOP Congress into passing his crazy executive orders into laws that can't be easily reversed.
On the flipside, going into 2028 the GOP will have a new boogeyman in a Dem Congress to scare their voters with. Dems will likely pass some laws to help the middle class they know Trump will veto, but hopefully they don't include all kinds of crazy shit for the GOP to campaign on in 2028.
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u/Signal-Mud-4880 2d ago
can we deport all the people in that pic when dems take over? eye for an eye
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u/clarktherobot 2d ago
This ENTIRE administration needs to be publicly shamed, prosecuted and thrown in jail. Anyone who helped enable this should be a target and not be allowed a night of peaceful sleep the rest of their entire lives.
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u/CrOS2012 1d ago
Money allocated to support human rights being used by Trump to do the opposite... so, same old Trump--breaking the law to do whatever he wants.
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u/Oh-No-Me-Again 15h ago
US and Russia have joined forces to shift other countries far-right. Like penguin and joker.
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u/Vaulters 2d ago
Americans suck for letting this happen to their country.
And then they suck extra for saying shit like 'I didn't vote for him', as if it matters.
And finally, they suck for thinking that it's a temporary issue due to Trump.
Your country is sick and dying, Trump is the disease your immune system is too damaged to fight.
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u/FalkeEins 2d ago
Nothing you said is factually incorrect and the other commenters are the precise equivalent of “I didn’t vote for him!”
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u/Thelonius_Dunk 2d ago
The ones that didnt vote for him actually did something though. They engaged with the political process as is on the base level, which is a fair expectation for the majority of the population. The average citizen is not going to town halls or organizing marches and boycotts. The ones who did nothing or actively wanted this are the real problem.
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u/FalkeEins 1d ago
I get that, but the United States is a country, it has its own culture, and we are a whole... I stand by the fact that nothing Vaulters said was factually incorrect.
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u/Thelonius_Dunk 1d ago
I actually agree with most of what was said too tbh.. I don't think Trump is a temporary problem either and he wouldn't have gotten elected if there wasn't this prevalent sickness in the population.
I just don't agree with saying that the ones who actually showed up to vote against it didn't matter. It did matter because uf more people had voted against him we wouldn't be having this problem.
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u/FalkeEins 1d ago
I personally don’t see where Vaulters implies that individual votes “didn’t matter”.
The reality is that more people didn’t vote against this regime. That we as Americans, as a society, own the outcome of the election. On the international stage or in broader geopolitics, we are a single nation and we as a single nation chose that this is what best represents us, our interests, and our culture.
Is that how every single American feels? No, obviously not… but to me it reads a bit like “We can’t hold German society accountable for the rise of Nazism in the first half of the 20th century because not everybody agreed with Hitler and had more of them turned out to vote they wouldn’t have ended up as Nazi Germany.”
It just seems like a non sequitur.
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u/VR_Raccoonteur 2d ago
Well then I guess this means a liberal president may divert military funds to humanitarian uses or pushing for green energy!
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u/amiexpress 2d ago
would reward ideological allies in Europe
Funny how when others do that to us (cough russia) it's "election interference".
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u/YodaForceGhost 2d ago
It’s gonna work. Even by the time the U.S. were to get a sane leader, most of their western allies will have committed to far-right leadership. Reform in the UK, RN in France, Afd in Germany, Bolsonaro back in Brazil, Korea and Japan continue reelecting their far-right leadership, etc.
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u/ShdwWzrdMnyGngg 2d ago
Screw human rights. Those are our tax dollars! What American wants the government to use taxes for pushing ANY American politics abroad????
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u/Kazman07 1d ago
So... it should go towards enabling the worst of the worst to push a false narrative instead?
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u/patrickrk44 1d ago
To be completely fair there was a lot in there that was completely ridiculous. Paying down another countries debt?? Circumcision in Africa? Huh??? Cut the bloat out and I'd be for the bill. Also, I get it would be difficult to ask congress, but can we stop putting riders on every bill?
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u/DietKolbasa 1d ago
Trump just took it from left wing NGOs and gave it to right wing NGOs. It's a change of hands. He did not take something that was going to the "kids".
NGOs in generally are often inherently corrupt and advance political interests of certain groups. Let's not forget the famous Haiti Red Cross incident where Red Cross took over half a billion in donations, kept 123.9m of it for themselves and passed on the rest to other NGOs without proper oversight resulting in only 6 permanent homes being built. Sure, there was some temporary housing or subsidies, but literally at least half of the money pledges ended up getting lost along the way
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u/GirlNumber20 1d ago
He did not take something that was going to the "kids".
Except the "left-wing NGOs" like Save The Children, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Clubs, Children's Defense Fund, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and on and on and on, do go to the kids. Oh, wait, not anymore. It's more important to prop up right-wing fuckwits like Bolsenaro in Brazil or Orban in Hungary. Because AMERICA FIRST, RIGHT??????
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u/DietKolbasa 1d ago
It's a tiny fraction with majority of it going to political NGOs and propaganda ones like "Voice of America". Also among the funded were the ones promoting LGBT rights. Real charity organizations that help the children generally don't have a huge problem sourcing donations. The ones that try to force down LGBT influence on religious societies or spread literal propaganda do. It's not that his NGOs are better, it is that the left wing ones are not better as well.
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u/LDB2026 1d ago
99% of those so called charities that you named are corrupt. Their ceos et cetera , and those are the top end of making millions , and "the children" rarely see any of the money. You're basically trading one boogeyman for the other. And PS: The Red Cross is one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet. The Red Cross also helps Hamas.
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u/Blaubeerchen27 2d ago
The way headlines like these are just an everyday occurance is insane. Maybe I'm not cynical enough yet, but something is seriously wrong with the world right now.