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It isn't a terrible idea for the state department to control our foreign aid programs and dispersements. But this is a very Machiavellian approach (read: f*cked up).
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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I love how articles like this make absolutely no reference to exact dates and times. Tuesday and Thursday could be from this week (today is Tuesday, February 4th, 2025), last November, or next December.
Articles and reports like these lose all historical context if not properly dated. Fuck, NBCNews couldn't even be bothered to document the date and time?
Edit: It seems they updated their article to reflect the date and time they posted and last edited their article, only approximately 6 minutes after I posted this.
"Updated Feb. 4, 2025, 10:29 PM CST"
That text wasn't available when I first viewed the article.
Its a relic when newspapers were the only way people got news, so it was deterministic.
Have an upvote, but also read my edited comment.
Something changed real quick there...
Thank you for pointing this out. This shit exists everywhere across non-Fox media. Can someone point me to a news org that isn't purely motivated by money?
Edit: Fox is much worse than this to be clear