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The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID(newyorker.com)
44 points by tastyface 3mo ago|17 comments
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by tastyface 3mo ago
Archived: https://archive.ph/20260712222347/https://www.newyorker.com/...
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by tastyface 3mo ago
Musk has been aggressively suckling the federal teat for years at this point. Most recently: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/22/trump-rural-broadba... So yeah, according to Occams razor, grifting liars
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by tastyface 3mo ago
He lied, just like he always does. The deaths are directly traceable to his "wood chipper" approach.
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by tastyface 3mo ago
There is ample evidence of many other deaths directly caused by Musk's actions, unrelated to Ebola. For example, sudden withdrawal of critical medical care and food supplies. People were relying on aid to survive, the aid got cut off s
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by tastyface 3mo ago
The hundreds of thousands of deaths he is directly responsible for will be the defining part of his legacy, as others race to create better electric cars and spaceships and social platforms. The amount of pain and suffering he has caused is
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What will define Elon Musk's legacy? DOGE cuts to USAID Ebola programs(theguardian.com)
23 points by tastyface 3mo ago|15 comments
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by tastyface 3mo ago
The white nationalist parties are *far* more of a threat to democracy in Europe than these very scary, adjective-laden immigrants.
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by tastyface 3mo ago
Ensure?? Oh man, you're gonna blow a gasket with your ultrawoke kids. How do you think we ended up with hippies from such a conservative generation?
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by tastyface 3mo ago
Actually, they do admit it: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-mad-teen-pre...
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San Francisco supervisors balk at 362-page, AI-assisted city code rewrite(missionlocal.org)
9 points by tastyface 3mo ago|2 comments
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by tastyface 3mo ago
It's not an accident.
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by tastyface 3mo ago
My posteriors are based not on some perceived virtue of brown immigrants (wat) but my experience with nativist parties: they are, to the last, full of despicable, immoral hucksters who will stop at nothing to accrue and consolidate power, i
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by tastyface 3mo ago
Billionaires always have the option to un-parasite themselves, quite trivially. Nobody is calling MacKenzie Scott a parasite.
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by tastyface 3mo ago
"you find that 80%+ of them hold highly regressive views" Question is, does this info come from reputable pollsters? Or is it just a factoid propagated by right-wing media? Also, impossible to square with a conservative white base
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by tastyface 3mo ago
What was wrong about their conclusion that isn't equally wrong about the conclusions of these other white nationalist parties? It's pretty clear to me that all these parties have racial animus (not ethnic identity) as their core,
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by tastyface 3mo ago
The exact same argument would apply to the racial politics of Nazi germany or the Jim Crow South.
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by tastyface 3mo ago
They see themselves as revolutionaries, genuinely. Plow over everything in the way of the goal & fuck the human cost. I shudder at the thought of having a beer with these people.
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by tastyface 3mo ago
I mean, OK, to echo Capricorn2481, "this is such a bizarre soup of dog whistles it's not really worth replying to." Big scary mooslems gonna eat your babies. Blood libel all over again. I prefer to keep living without this qu
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by tastyface 3mo ago
Except: exactly the same rhetoric is being used by the far-right in America as it is in Europe and the Anglosphere. Strength or weakness of identity is irrelevant to the white nationalist project.
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by tastyface 3mo ago
"Quran says that you have to convert everyone to Islamic faith" Hey, remember the Crusades? This is not unique to Islam. Any religion can be made into a tool of peace or a tool of war. Wicked leaders will interpret their sacred te
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by tastyface 3mo ago
A racist white guy knifed a bunch of innocent people in the UK recently. When do we say "enough" to that?
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by tastyface 3mo ago
I'm actually a Christian from a conservative branch of the faith, but thanks for your input.
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by tastyface 3mo ago
I share the same(-ish) religion and ethnicity as white supremacist terrorists. Does this make me complicit in their degenerate world views? Obviously not. All the same stuff was said about Jews in pre-Nazi Germany. It's always bullshit
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by tastyface 3mo ago
What do the Bataclan terrorists have to do with 99.9999% of the Muslim population? Absolutely nothing. (Or, at least, as much as neo-Nazis have to do with the native white population.) Fact is, most people are extremely normal and just want
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by tastyface 3mo ago
The violent protests in Ireland were explicitly enflamed and coordinated by Musk and other right-wingers over social media: https://newrepublic.com/article/211936/elon-musk-race-war-be...
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by tastyface 3mo ago
Civil strife? If it comes to violence, I (a white person) certainly won't be on the side of the white nationalists. Same for most of my peers. Many of us love living in multicultural societies and will fight to protect our neighbors an
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by tastyface 3mo ago
I come from a family of recent immigrants. We're considered white so we get a pass for behaviors that our nonwhite peers get side-eye for. My ethnicity has its own enclaves. Those enclaves get treated as a cute cultural artifact rather
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by tastyface 3mo ago
How much context do you need for a quote that uses "walk[ing] over corpses" as a virtue???
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by tastyface 4mo ago
Just don't be surprised when your children refuse to talk to you.

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