Millions will likely die prematurely before this is all over. The world’s richest man on earth used his power to starve and take medicine from desperate children in a war torn region who are now dying or have already died. It’s vile and obscene, full stop.
Yeah plenty of people are deluded when it comes to trump but tbh I think staring right at a story about musk canceling programs and very obviously causing thousands upon thousands of people to die, and saying stupid shit like this directly under that story, is an almost unique kind of stupid
Read it again, and you'll see that it is not the NYT "guessing", it is an associate professor of global health at Boston University modelling scenarios, whose job as an infectious disease mathematician and health economist is to do precisely this.
Moreover, your response begs the question: what quantity of childhood excess deaths are you comfortable with? A few hundred? A few thousand? Tens of thousands? More? Be specific.
NYT isn't making the estimate, an expert in the field is and they're reporting on it. Also if the number was closer to 250,000, would that make the situation any better, in any meaningful way? What if it's closer to 400,000? Like you know anything.
I notice in some of your other posts that you complain about all the supposed political hatred on bluesky, but have you considered you're just someone who is shitty enough to be hated? Like a moral society abosulety should hate assholes like you.
They always think it’s everyone else getting it wrong. At some point don’t you wonder how hundreds of millions of Americans, plus a zillion more Europeans, Canadians, and half of Asia can be wrong while Little ol’ You are fighting the righteous fight?
Even if it was just one death, it be ridiculous that one person had to die because the richest man on earth got drugged up and took a chainsaw to our government. That shouldn’t have happened. Period.
Do you think the specific number of deaths is relevant to the point being made or have you decided to express your displeasure with a media company while knowing you're missing the point?
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Now, you just need to grow the fuck up.
Another doozy
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&smid=url-share
you’re stupid
hope this helps
https://bsky.app/profile/linuxking.bsky.social/post/3lmp5flxc3s2t
Illiteracy, and violent sociopathic tendencies is a requirement
I think you should either get the nerve to defend these monsters directly, or the wisdom not to defend them at all
They're quoting an estimate from Boston University (who is good at estimating) and interviews with aid workers about the impact on the ground.
Reading comprehension is hard, I know.