• real_squids@sopuli.xyz
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      They’re very much interested in diplomacy, albeit only when it affects their pockets.

      Rubio does not “tolerate” people “using their positions to actively undermine” Trump and his agenda.

      Checks out, his agenda includes making himself richer.

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    It has absolutely gotten worse under this administration. I watched friends lose their jobs when USAID was shuttered. Many were recalled to Washington on short notice and had no home to go to. Local staff, some with decades of tenure, were out of a job. Aid recipients have, and continue to, starve and die because food and medical aid (that American taxpayers already paid for!) was destroyed instead of distributed. Visas are harder to obtain, whether for tourism or residency.

    Policies have changed, and not for the better. While policy changes are typical when changing administrations, the changes are usually much more subtle. Our foreign policy stance has become significantly more antagonistic.

    And then we had that shutdown at the beginning of October. I was put in a terrible position of having to decide whether to have people come to work without pay or furlough them. I ultimately kept them working because Trump had threatened not to pay furloughed workers. Shortly before the shutdown ended, I was having to find creative solutions for some of my team to continue to afford to come to work and feed their families. Anyone who says things have improved under Trump in the foreign service is either lying or oblivious.

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      If you are stupid and cruel, diplomacy makes no sense as you’ve never left your small town of bum fuck, USA.

      If you are smart and evil, refer to what the CEO of Palantar recently said.

      Militech and Arasaka are angels.compared to these current CEOs.

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      Dude or dudette, praise the fuck be to you honestly. Keep being the figure in the dam trying to hold back the flood. Your work in keeping the tenets of democracy alive, as menial as it may seem is appreciated

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    CIA has been screwing over their diplomats like this since the 50’s at least. It must be absolutely fucked if they’re now complaining about it openly.