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To be fair, they also dismantled tons of important things with quiet constituencies that had nothing to do with Musk (USAID / PEPFAR, NIH, NEA, etc. etc.)
by mikeyouse 1y ago
To be fair, they also dismantled tons of important things with quiet constituencies that had nothing to do with Musk (USAID / PEPFAR, NIH, NEA, etc. etc.)
- ceejayoz 1y agoSure, foreign aid to Africa has "nothing to do with" a white South African who forced his AI to spread disinformation about "white genocide" (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/technology/xai-elon-musk-south-africa.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/technology/xai-elon-musk-...) and managed to get white South Africans to be brought in as refugees as a political stunt (https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-refugees-afrikaner-white-f5ed3aa615e0448157f8c4752d2a0cc7 https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-refugees-afrik...).
- mikeyouse 1y agoI meant in the context of helping him / his businesses - he clearly has an 'interest' in Africa but there was no financial or regulatory incentive for those cuts - they were just malicious on their own.