Swift exit would remove global health body’s main source of funds and damage its ability to tackle emergencies
  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    …because donvict didn’t kill enough people with Covid; he hopes to do even more damage in the next round.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
      36·
      15 hours ago

      I also believe there is a waiting period as well. Because I think he tried the same thing last time he was in office, but because it doesn’t take effect immediately it didn’t actually happen.

      And according this NPR piece in 2020 it looks like the waiting period is a year, so Trump was out of office before it would have taken effect.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        30·
        13 hours ago

        His “Project Lightspeed” bullshit used WHO resources as well 🤣

        He’s literally just trying to pull the same shit he tries with everyone on the planet. “I didn’t like the result , so I’m not paying you”. That’s all his simple mind can process. He doesn’t understand what it means to not participate in a global health organization whose sole purpose is stop pandemic-like situations.

    • andyburke@fedia.io
      2868·
      14 hours ago

      This fatalism is so fucking pathetic.

      Did the left start winning and forget that we have always had to struggle and fight for every scrap of humanity the oligarchy and the political class try to hoard?

      What the fuck?

      Stop crying.

      • PunnyName@lemmy.world
        17·
        10 hours ago

        Bruh, a literal fascist who wants to be a dictator day one and wants lifetime control over the country was just elected by more people than the alternative.

        Fuck you.

        • andyburke@fedia.io
          24·
          9 hours ago

          Our two party first past the post voting system and its long and fraught history lead to some minority percentage of the US population getting their dude into power. Over a guy in his 80s apparently blind to genocide who passed the torch to <checks notes> a former prosecutor with a “tough on crime” persona who spent a lot of time hobnobbing with celebs and saying everything was going fine, including the genocide. That is true.

          • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
            7·
            8 hours ago

            I think you and your ilk are going to come to the conclusion soon that the gamble y’all played this past election is going to blow up in your faces.

            we won’t be your pawns to sacrifice.

      • vladmech@lemmy.world
        271·
        11 hours ago

        My dude, we can hold both the idea of “we’re so fucked” and “we’re going to fight like hell” in our brain. Fuck off with your patronizing bullshit.

        • andyburke@fedia.io
          146·
          11 hours ago

          I’m sorry, my dude. I am just so tired of seeing this all - the - fucking - time.

          I am not trying to be patronizing. My bad. I want us all motivated to do good shit, rather than just feel like we are fucked. 🤷‍♂️

          We can win.

          • vladmech@lemmy.world
            9·
            11 hours ago

            Hell yeah man, it’s all good, I’m sorry for coming in hot there. It’s going to suck but I’m with you and believe we’ve got this in the long run. Going to be a shitty four years (again) though

            • twistypencil@lemmy.world
              3·
              10 hours ago

              It’s a great time to be organizing to build the future, solidarity gets stronger in shitty times. More people than ever have realized that the democrats are, and always have been center right, that is what liberal means everywhere else in the world, they are not the key, they are not us and now is our time!

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    241·
    15 hours ago

    America is about to experience some real brain drain.

    I guess Canada is best positioned to benefit