Doge.gov site has been hacked

Re:Doge.gov site has been hacked by angelgonzales on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:13PM (#43055566)

If the intention of USAID is to increase diplomacy by helping other countries, why wouldn’t USAID help with South Africa’s purported biggest problems [1]? $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa seems like an arbitrary way to help South Africa, or at least not as impactful as flood aid, reducing corruption or decreasing unemployment. It makes me wonder how USAID chooses to help countries and if it’s aligned with what the government (or their people) thinks the biggest problems in their country are.

[1] https://www.gov.za/issues/key-issues

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Re:Doge.gov site has been hacked by Brybry on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:59PM (#43055784)

South Africa has the most people infected with HIV by far. [1] It's a bit crazy to me that it's not listed in their key issues as more than 1 in 10 adults (maybe even 1 in 5) in South Africa have HIV.

HIV-positive gay men are at a higher risk of transmission for obvious reasons [2] and I can think of a lot of good reasons for the US to want to fight infectious diseases in other countries.

I assume the $6.3 million is really $4.3 million here[3], of which $1.9 million was given to 'OUT LGBT WELL-BEING'[4] for 'ENGAGE MEN’S HEALTH: COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES FOR MSM IN SOUTH AFRICA ACTIVITY'.

If you look at the health services they provide in [4] it's testing/screening for HIV, it's HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, etc. In 2021 they had two mobile health teams providing those services to gay men. [5][page 14]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_adult_prevalence_rate

[2] https://hivinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv/fact-sheets/hiv-an...

[3] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_72067423FA00008_7...

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20240715043923/https://out.org.z...

[5] https://out.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OUT_Annual_Rep...

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Re:Doge.gov site has been hacked by vuln on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:09AM (#43056308)

Practices such as Dry Sex increases a women chances exponentially.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dry-sex-is-the-african-sexua...

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Re:Doge.gov site has been hacked by unclebucknasty on Friday February 14, 2025 @11:24PM (#43055887)

You're providing a public service of sorts by demonstrating in real-time how certain people are so easily triggered, distracted and manipulated by minutiae. $6.3 million is nothing—not even a rounding error. But, throw "gay" in there and now it's the point.

It's like the entire existence of a swath of the population has become about ensuring gay people get no consideration and no trans person ever plays a women's sport. That's it. And, if it takes replacing democracy with fascism, well dammit, it's worth it.

There is no woke mind virus. But there's certainly an anti-woke mind virus.

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