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Agreed, and in addition, DOGE is also on the path to be guilty of mass murder, given than historians widely consider Mao guilty of the famine from the Great Lea
by caycep 2y ago
Agreed, and in addition, DOGE is also on the path to be guilty of mass murder, given than historians widely consider Mao guilty of the famine from the Great Leap Forward, and projected deaths from their policies are beginning to be tabulated.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-mu...
- nervmodem 2y ago[dead]
- acdha 2y agoI would suggest reading the links. You can question the scale but suddenly disrupting food and medical aid is profoundly disruptive and will have generational impacts if it’s not reversed or others don't step in to fill the gap.
- ethbr1 2y agoThe irony of billionaires deciding it's a waste of money to feed people and prevent AIDS pandemics is lost on some.
- acdha 2y agoYes, it is wild to me to see how PEPFAR was for years held up as the Republican’s flagship foreign program but so few were willing to speak up to defend it.
- ethbr1 2y agoMorals are only really morals when it's difficult to suppport them, and people still do. I think the Republican party nowadays is proof that most of them are chickenshit and care more about their job than doing the right thing. Props those who made the hard choices. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_trial_of_Donald_Trump#Verdict https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_trial_of_...
- bitcoin_anon 2y agoThere is a difference between cutting back on aid to other countries and a leader starving his own subjects.