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U.S. funded Columbian transgender opera.

Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2025 08:24:08 No.1382598 View View Reply Original Report

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>"A grant for $25,000 was awarded in 2021 to a university in Colombia “to raise awareness and increase the transgender representation” through the production of an opera, with an additional $22,020 coming from non-federal funding."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/claims-about-usaid-funding-are-spreading-online-many-are-not-based-on-facts/ar-AA1yCpAD
To be clear, the article states that USAID did not fund the opera, though the taxpayer did fund such an opera. I'll post more below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdw31c6HPCI
Where can one obtain this transgender opera? Was it ever written? Does an English translation exist?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2025 08:30:34 No.1382599 Report

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>As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, false and misleading information is being pushed on social media to support the change, much of it spread by the administration and Elon Musk.
>The posts raise questions about funding for certain projects and organizations, often claiming without evidence that the money was used inappropriately.
>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said to reporters Tuesday that USAID had spent “$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces; $70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland; $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.” Those claims were picked up and spread widely on social media throughout the week.
>Only the grant to a Serbian organization called Grupa Izadji was awarded by USAID. Its stated aim is to “to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”
>The rest were awarded by the State Department's Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. In 2022, it granted $70,884 to an Irish company for “a live musical event to promote the U.S. and Irish shared values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.” A grant for $25,000 was awarded in 2021 to a university in Colombia “to raise awareness and increase the transgender representation” through the production of an opera, with an additional $22,020 coming from non-federal funding. And $32,000 awarded in 2022 to a Peruvian organization funded “a tailored-made comic, featuring an LGBTQ+ hero to address social and mental health issues."
>“The information environment about what USAID does and does not do has gotten to a very difficult place, where there's a lot of false and misleading information being circulated,” said Rachel Bonnifield, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2025 08:32:40 No.1382600 Report

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>“And I would hope everybody could hew back to the facts, which are publicly available, and we can have a good faith discussion about what USAID should and should not be doing based on those.”
>Sean Roberts, a professor of international affairs at George Washington University and director of the school’s international development studies master’s program, explained that it “makes sense” that these programs were funded by the under secretary’s office.
>“They do these small grant programs as outreach to local organizations and local communities and they’re generally supposed to reflect values of the United States and the friendship between the countries,” he said. “Sometimes they’re about democracy, in this case they’re about diversity. But they have nothing to do with USAID.”
>Asked about the Trump administration's portrayal of USAID funding, including Leavitt's statement earlier this week, White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said, “This waste of taxpayer dollars underscores why the president paused foreign aid on day one to ensure it aligns with American interests.” She did not address the misrepresented grants cited above.
>What about the media?
>Major media outlets are among the organizations that have been singled out with claims that are false and misleading, including The Associated Press.
>The BBC, for example, was said to have received approximately $3.2 million (2.6 million pounds) during the 2023-2024 financial year. But that money didn’t go to its news operation. It went to BBC Media Action, an international charity that is “part of the BBC family,” but editorially and financially separate from BBC News, the charity said in a statement. It accounted for about 8% of BBC Media Action’s budget that year.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2025 08:34:08 No.1382601 Report

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>“We follow the BBC’s editorial standards and values in our support for public interest media,” reads the statement. “However, all of our funding goes to our own projects. These are completely separate from the journalism of BBC News. We have no influence over the editorial decision-making of BBC News. The BBC in the UK is mostly funded by a TV Licence fee.”
>The BBC — not including BBC Media Action, which is a separate entity — also earns income from the organization’s commercial subsidiaries.
>Posts shared widely across social media also falsely claimed that Politico received at least $8 million from USAID in 2024, with some posts putting that number as high as $34.3 million. That is incorrect. USAID did pay the news site $44,000 in subscription fees in financial years 2023 and 2024. But additional government payments came from other entities.
>Politico, in a statement to readers from CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Editor-in-Chief John Harris, said Thursday that it is not getting a government subsidy.
>The Associated Press was among the media outlets said to receive USAID funding. Although the news wire has been paid $37.5 million by other government agencies since 2008, none of that came from USAID, according to a federal government website that tracks its spending. AP spokeswoman Lauren Easton said that “the U.S. government has long been an AP customer — through both Democratic and Republican administrations. It licenses AP’s nonpartisan journalism, just like thousands of news outlets and customers around the world. It’s quite common for governments to have contracts with news organizations for their content.”
>Values change
>Foreign aid experts say that it is normal for an incoming administration to examine how aid is allocated and make changes based on its values.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2025 08:35:57 No.1382602 Report

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>“For a new administration to come in and review aid to see if it’s in line with their view of the American interest and their policy priorities, their general orientation, in theory this is totally normal and appropriate. Elections have consequences,” said Bonnifield.
>She added, however, that the information being spread on social media about USAID funding shows a lack of understanding of how the agency works.
>“There are certain motivations being assigned to it that don’t really seem to square with the facts and people are kind of reaching conclusions without understanding what’s happening,” she said. “That’s not to say necessarily all those expenses are good or should continue, but they’re implying intent that isn’t there.”
>Roberts described the Trump administration’s current approach to USAID as “shoot now, ask questions later” in which it is amplifying any funding data it can by using "incendiary accusations based on nothing.”
>“They just tend to obscure any kind of rational discussion about whether this agency is worthwhile and what its goals are and what’s the purpose of foreign aid,” he said in reference to recent social media posts about USAID funding.
>Bonnifield and Roberts agreed that further research would be necessary to determine independently from political views whether there are instances of inappropriate or wasteful spending.
>USAID is an independent agency that has provided humanitarian and development assistance around the world for more than 60 years. According to its 2023 annual report, the agency worked in more than 100 countries worldwide guided by five areas of focus: promoting global health, support global stability, providing humanitarian assistance, catalyzing innovation and partnership, and empowering women and girls.
I can see almost none of these posts because I've filtered "BBC" on all boards.

Elphaba Troppo help me. I'm melting

Elphaba Troppo help me. I'm melting Sun 09 Feb 2025 12:46:24 No.1382624 Report

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>>1382598
>can see almost none of these posts because I've filtered "BBC" on all boards.
hi sailor, girl with BWC here. Your the one that keeps messaging me, ain't u?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2025 14:49:53 No.1382629 Report

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>>1382598
So they didn't fund an opera and this another Trump lie, got ya

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2025 18:10:16 No.1382649 Report

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>>13 82598
Was the opera any good tho?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Feb 2025 00:01:26 No.1382780 Report

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>>1382629
the U.S. taxpayer did pay for a transgender opera, though it's not true that U.S.A.I.D. was the department that funded it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Feb 2025 00:14:58 No.1382782 Report

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>>1382780
Sounds like we need to cut more departments then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Feb 2025 00:29:30 No.1382785 Report

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>>1382598
DRAIN THE SWAMP

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Feb 2025 05:54:22 No.1382859 Report

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>>1382598
I'M OUTRAGED!!1 THEY OUGHT TO APOLOGIZE!!11

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Feb 2025 12:17:48 No.1382886 Report

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>>1382598
I don't believe you, though.

Sage

Sage Mon 10 Feb 2025 15:48:29 No.1382898 Report

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>>1382598
Emilia Perez was in a tranny musical that seems like it was directed by /pol/ even though it was nothing but Hollywood. (I only know of it thanks to Tim Dillon)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2025 03:16:42 No.1383066 Report

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>>1382898
Defund /pol/

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2025 03:25:45 No.1383067 Report

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>>1383066
you'd have to be comptroller of a foreign government to defund pol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2025 12:18:42 No.1383413 Report

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>>1382598

kek..

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