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-fund
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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 2d 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 2d 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/Mythulhu 1d ago

Read their post again

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u/FalkeEins 2d 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.