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Re:Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn't True by cantrecallmypwd on Saturday March 15, 2025 @07:45PM (#43375936)
History is about to rhyme once again thanks to the new Marcus Licinius Crassus and all of the people who fail to prevent it from happening.
Re:Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn't True by abarker on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:40PM (#43375615)
This is a paywall-free link the NYT Opinion account posted to Reddit: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...
Re:Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn't True by jslezak on Saturday March 15, 2025 @08:54PM (#43376194)
That’s 3.3 million estimated deaths caused by DOGE illegally shutting down a congressionally established and funded agency of the US government:

- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS

- 500,000 from lack of vaccines

- 550,000 from lack of food aid

- 290,000 from malaria

- 310,000 from TB

“are the effective altruism guys mad about this or are they still trying to figure out how buying a castle will prevent AGI robot attacks in the year 300” [email protected]

Re:Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn't True by dzhiurgis on Sunday March 16, 2025 @12:57AM (#43377016)
Which cancellations caused these?
Re:Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn't True by yorwba on Sunday March 16, 2025 @03:46AM (#43377481)
The effective altruism guys got mad about it almost two months ago... https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BRqBvkjskZ6c2G6rn/...
Re:Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn't True by iJohnDoe on Saturday March 15, 2025 @10:46PM (#43376623)
This is very sad.

The US has eliminated basic human compassion. One of the many goals of the human race is to help one another. It’s not the only goal and may not be the most important one. However, as a species we should be trying to help our fellow humans wherever they are.

Cutting aid and also being part of the axis of evil is just unbelievable.