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> hypersensitivity to ideas leftists find offensive” Nobody was fleeing Twitter because people were calling for lower taxes. It was for the rise in unrestraine
by tootie 1y ago
> hypersensitivity to ideas leftists find offensive”
Nobody was fleeing Twitter because people were calling for lower taxes. It was for the rise in unrestrained hate speech culminating in the unleashing of MechaHitler by the guy who cancelled the world's biggest AIDS prevention program after buying an election. That should be an intolerable state for any rational person.
- theturtle 1y agoMy sister-in-law was working for USAID in Mozambique on exactly that. People down there are going to die exactly because of that. She is back in America wondering what she'll do next, as she trained for public health her entire life.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoThe smart thing would to be reconstitute something like it with prior staff and new philanthropic investments as a nonprofit unconstrained by government whims.
- soraminazuki 1y agoThe private sector alone can't fix inequalities. We need government intervention to redistribute wealth, or else the rich will use their vast resources to tilt the system to make themselves even richer at the expense of everyone else.
- tootie 1y agoBill Gates is the largest private funder of AIDS causes in Africa and he is adamant that philanthropy can never match the impact of government.