| ▲ | bonsai_spool 8 hours ago | |||||||
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your sentence, but your way of phrasing ("a body of millions") seems to dramatically overstate the impact. You compared a sovereign nation to an apartment, sorry I was unclear. > There was a hotly contested election with one side promising abrupt change and the other side promising a maintenance of the status quo. There's good polling about this sort of thing - Americans don't want to cause the death of other people. You may construe the electioneering to mean otherwise, but I was not alluding to this. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/05/01/majorities-of-... > Poland shares a border with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a nation that has also been a historical aggressor against Poland. I don't believe this is a good comparison to the US funding healthcare in the DR Congo. I disagree, because allowing infectious disease to fester slowly allows the development of antibiotic resistance and magnification of problems that could otherwise be contained. In a sense, we're all closer to infections in the developing world than we recognize - despite the US efforts to dismantle the system that has surveilled these infections up to now. | ||||||||
| ▲ | gottorf 7 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> a sovereign nation A sovereign nation in name only, who cannot adequately protect its people against disease without Uncle Sam's backstop. > Americans don't want to cause the death of other people Your concept of causation here is tortured. Americans are not spraying Ebola from airplanes. Can you equally say that you caused the death of a beggar who you passed by without sparing a dollar? | ||||||||
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