Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
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We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.

Summary

The Trump administration has canceled 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts, including critical programs that provide lifesaving therapeutic food to malnourished children.

Mana Nutrition’s CEO reports that ready-to-ship boxes of peanut paste that could save approximately 300,000 children are now stranded in a Georgia warehouse.

Despite Secretary of State Rubio’s claims that “lifesaving humanitarian assistance” would be spared, numerous essential health programs have been terminated, including those preventing diseases like polio, HIV, and Ebola.

These cuts contradict claims about targeting “wokeness” or “waste,” instead showing a reckless abandonment of America’s global humanitarian commitments.

    • Cosmic ClericEnglish
      3•21 hours ago

      lemmy guess, single-issue voters

      No, according to one of them they thought the country needed fixing, and he’s the one to do it. Wrong direction, pricing, that sort of thing.

      I think they were religiously anti-woke, but didn’t want to come out and say it straight.

      Funny enough, they were one of those who does missionary work. I plan on asking them again after the USAID changes filters down and affects people more forcefully.

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      • @notsoshaihulud
        2•19 hours ago

        No, according to one of them they thought the country needed fixing, and he’s the one to do it.

        People who think a person who handled COVID like trump did is an is the right person to manage a “crisis” he worked hard contributing to?!:D

    • Cosmic ClericEnglish
      1•21 hours ago

      I personally know Christians who voted for Trump (yeah I know, but bear with me) that would care very much, as they actually do missionary work overseas to help the kind of people that would be affected by this cancellation.

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      lemmy guess, single-issue voters

      Any response from you about my mentioning how some Christians also care? …

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        • Cosmic ClericEnglish
          1•21 hours ago

          I noticed you edited your comment, removing you quoting of my license, which is what I was asking about, you responding to the license, and not to the comment.

          I appreciate the edit.

          P.S. Love the user name. Nice play on words with Dune involved.

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          • @notsoshaihulud
            1•21 hours ago

            this license thing is funny and all, but if you get distracted from the conversation if someone accidentally pulls it in a quote then it’s quite counterproductive. we’ve now had 3 posts revolving around it, and still no answer to the original question.

            • Cosmic ClericEnglish
              1•21 hours ago

              but if you get distracted from the conversation if someone accidentally pulls it in a quote

              Well, I’m not a mind reader, and if I had to guess if it was purposeful, or accidental, based on my history here on Lemmy, I’ll consider it purposeful every time.

              we’ve now had 3 posts revolving around it, and still no answer to the original question.

              Actually I responded, while you were typing your comment. I just wanted to do it in a separate comment, to segregate the two issues being discussed.

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