The life-saving drugs and contraceptives have been sitting in warehouses since January

Roughly $12 million worth of HIV-prevention drugs and contraceptives purchased by the U.S. Agency for International Development will likely be destroyed after President Donald Trump dismantled the organization, according to a report.

These drugs have been sitting in distribution centers in Belgium and the UAE since January, when Trump ended the agency’s spending, The Washington Post reported. Now, negotiators have been instructed to sell the drugs or else they’ll be thrown out, according to the outlet.

“The mandate that [the USAID negotiator] has been given is ‘get us money for it, and if you can’t do that, we’re just going to trash it,’” someone with knowledge of the situation told the Post.

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    I bet you ask rape survivors why they were dressed like that, too. Go fuck yourself, you victim-blaming piece of shit.

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      Devils advocate: If we can say ACAB because even the “good” ones are complicit via not stepping in to stop the bad ones and letting the bad situations happen, why is this equivalent situation different?

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        You choose to be a cop, I didn’t choose to be born here

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      Coward.

      What a shit comment. Blaming a rape victim shifts guilt onto someone with zero control over the crime. Examining how a privileged poplulation enables fascism is about collective choices and the failure of those who have held power for decades- not shifting the blame to the powerless. Conflating the two is lazy and self-serving.

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        Gotta love keyboard warriors calling everyone else cowards for not doing enough violence. No real theory of change, just “hurt them until they’re scared of you” like conservatives don’t already believe that we’re killing them for dumb, made-up reasons.