So, after a few paragraphs of heartbreaking truth, there's an "ad" that tells you that more than 1 million people will die. Then you scroll, while little red dots show up, showing each life lost.
Annoying, in that scroll-thru-ads way. I scrolled past.
Honestly, I can't tell you. It's among the saddest. But like, I've seen the documentaries that show bulldozer shoveling bodies at German WW2 death camps, so... On par with the worst of humanity.
Thank you Peter this article needs to be read by as many people as possible, ironically it needs to be read by the ones who wouldn't normally read something from NYT. So ashamed of my government right now...
A world leader or superpower helps the world & is loved and respected by the world .. Once that stops, we lose that designation - that’s a problem because China steps in !!
in fairness to musk, he doesn’t commit 'the sin of empathy.' he doesn’t see any of the individuals who suffer or die as a result of his policies as actual full human beings.
when he says 'no one will die,' he means it in the same way that the US founding fathers meant 'all men are created equal.'
Article is questionably sourced. https://usaspending.gov has no reference to "PEPFAR" funding from ANY gov spending source. An NGO intermediate was not stated, but the INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE, INC. is a possibility. They receive funds from many.
Thus there is no evidence that USAID cuts caused this.
PEPFAR is a pot of funding from State department but programmed via agencies that can do the work like CDC USAID and DOD. To find these grants in USASpending, youd have to do a word search. There are lists of the terminated programs via DOS found in tranches at https://open.substack.com/pub/informedalarmist?r=ag47s&utm_medium=ios
I’m not going to do this work for you. But in the link to that document with tranches of canceled programs, I found several for both *south* Sudan and South Africa (coded as SA). At this point, I’m not sure how functional or accurate usaspending still is given how much DOGE has tampered with systems
I was doing something else and I found this EGPAF contract to provide prevention and treatment for HIV and TB in Eswatini where prevalence and co-infection rates are among world's highest. Terminated without any plan to ensure ppl have continued access to ART. https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_72067424CA00008_7200
You can cross reference programs from South Sudan against the list of terminated projects but You are asking me to provide you evidence when this info comes from credible sources using field reporting that is verified. I’m not going to do that labor for you.
Even if it is true… that’s the bar? No one has DIED? How about we go ahead and take every penny he has earned on the back of ill gotten funds, government loans, and through dishonest/disingenuous deals… I mean it’ll be all his money, and he’ll be broke, but he won’t be DEAD!
They refuse to report it, dismantle systems to monitor/report/document this (and so much more) - therefore it does not exist! They make facts disappear and report whatever they choose, or nothing at all. Then most people forget it exists. And so outrage and resistance also disappear.
Accelarationist policies may seem seductive, but are chaotic. It is not like USA had 10^8 inflation like Zimbabwe or Argentina requiring drastic measures. If they supposedly found "absurd" programs they could cut those and look for bigger fish later. "Penny Wise Pound Foolish"
Grateful for the article
Beyond appalling what is happening
It's as if the world is living out some dramatic horror screenplay that a few evil white men have penned.
Oh, right, Project 2025... the prologue
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These cuts were done so incompetently that they are costing us a great deal.
#AuditDOGE
#FireMusk
He’s just saying “no one I know personally who I give a shit about has died”
It would take him actually caring for people to understand the consequences
Annoying, in that scroll-thru-ads way. I scrolled past.
I scrolled up. And up. And up.
And I wept.
Y for all of those people and for the day that he needs his demise , rich or not , rich still a bastard
This article precedes The NY Times article and is the kind of analysis we should be demanding from this administration.
At what point does the U.N. Issue an arrest warrant to trump & musk for crimes against humanity?
What’s the death number criteria?
when he says 'no one will die,' he means it in the same way that the US founding fathers meant 'all men are created equal.'
And the other White Patheticists.
Thus there is no evidence that USAID cuts caused this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/informedalarmist?r=ag47s&utm_medium=ios
It has been my experience that if someone doesn't it highly likely they are guessing or it is untrue.
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_72067424CA00008_7200
~No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding. No one.~
Racists define people differently. He doesn't think certain humans are one [out of us].
So, make him define 'one' in 'no one'. No one white person? No one I know...
Watch Tesla run over a kid.
https://youtu.be/umR89o-xFHU
Watch Tesla run over a kid.
https://youtu.be/umR89o-xFHU
This article is hard to swallow and would be a good test to determine who is maga and who isn’t.
Because anyone okay with this is unquestionably supporting an authoritarian regime.
Beyond appalling what is happening
It's as if the world is living out some dramatic horror screenplay that a few evil white men have penned.
Oh, right, Project 2025... the prologue