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And the Trump thing, which cratered his car business

shimman 4mo ago
Yeah but he was able to personally make the call to kill millions of people around the world, he's just going back to his roots.
- the_doctah 4mo ago
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  - doron 4mo ago
    The results of DOGE A former USAID global health official has cited internal modeling suggesting around 600,000 excess deaths in 2025 alone, roughly two‑thirds among children, due to the collapse of programs for malnutrition, HIV, TB, obstetric care, and child health. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund... USAID global health and development funding has been cut by on the order of 80–85%, sharply reducing support for vaccination, TB control, maternal health, and other essential services in many poorer countries. Within CDC, DOGE‑related cuts and mass firings have removed thousands of staff, with specific centers (e.g., National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention) losing over a quarter of their workforce. Short term: more outbreaks like the Bangladesh measles surge, interrupted treatment for chronic and infectious diseases, and increased mortality where programs were heavily donor‑funded. Medium term: degradation of global health infrastructure and human capital (loss of trained staff, data systems, and labs), making it harder to recover even if funding later returns. Long term: slower medical innovation, reduced global surveillance capacity, and entrenched health inequities, as countries and communities with the fewest resources bear the brunt of lost support. https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1...
  - catlifeonmars 4mo ago
    What does “hysterical” mean in this context?
    - shimman 4mo ago
      "I disagree with you and have zero awareness of the world around me."
  - shimman 4mo ago
    Yeah canceling USAID programs that made the difference between life and death for millions of people around the world. Were you in a coma during DOGE in 2025 or are you being purposely selective in your memory? Nothing hysterical about killing millions of people, hopefully there becomes a movement in the US to not only try Elon Musk at say the International Criminal Court (which we all know will lead to successful conviction, the evidence is apparent and naked enough as is) but hopefully the US government nationalizes his assets as he is a danger to the world. Also the US should start throwing some oligarchs in prison to help rehabilitate its image after people start blaming us for causing famines and more deaths due to the recent imperial project that has become a total shit show. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund... "If founding is not restored by 2030, 8 to 10 million people will die." If Harvard is too woke for you here's a youtube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ8wm5PTKJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ8wm5PTKJg If Youtube is too woke for you, here's the book detailing this as well: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243105542-into-the-wood-chipper https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243105542-into-the-wood-... If books are woke for you, maybe just go back into your cave where concern trolling is more respected.
    - the_doctah 4mo ago
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    - keybored 4mo ago
      > Also the US should start throwing some oligarchs in prison to help rehabilitate its image after people start blaming us for causing famines and more deaths due to the recent imperial project that has become a total shit show. America’s image was based on media domination with a megaphone going in one direction. Let’s not go back to delusion and fantasy.
  - dlev_pika 4mo ago
    Not to anyone with basic grasp of what USAID did or was
    - the_doctah 4mo ago
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      - dlev_pika 4mo ago
        We may agree or not regarding specific policies, but hard to imagine a less curious reply.
- blurbleblurble 4mo ago
  I don't believe in racial essentialism myself but I know someone who does *ducks to dodge downvotes for not only making a bad dad joke but a political one*
CamperBob2 4mo ago
Obviously Trump was not going to be a champion of clean, renewable energy. If he knew the "Trump thing" was coming -- which thanks to his position inside Twitter he probably did -- then the rational thing to do was, in fact, what he did. Suck up to Trump to try to avoid or shape the outcome. What he didn't need to do was alienate his existing customers by acting like he enjoyed it. Did he actually think he was going to sell a lot of EVs to Trumpers?

Yeah but he was able to personally make the call to kill millions of people around the world, he's just going back to his roots.

the_doctah 4mo ago
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- doron 4mo ago
  The results of DOGE A former USAID global health official has cited internal modeling suggesting around 600,000 excess deaths in 2025 alone, roughly two‑thirds among children, due to the collapse of programs for malnutrition, HIV, TB, obstetric care, and child health. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund... USAID global health and development funding has been cut by on the order of 80–85%, sharply reducing support for vaccination, TB control, maternal health, and other essential services in many poorer countries. Within CDC, DOGE‑related cuts and mass firings have removed thousands of staff, with specific centers (e.g., National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention) losing over a quarter of their workforce. Short term: more outbreaks like the Bangladesh measles surge, interrupted treatment for chronic and infectious diseases, and increased mortality where programs were heavily donor‑funded. Medium term: degradation of global health infrastructure and human capital (loss of trained staff, data systems, and labs), making it harder to recover even if funding later returns. Long term: slower medical innovation, reduced global surveillance capacity, and entrenched health inequities, as countries and communities with the fewest resources bear the brunt of lost support. https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1...
- catlifeonmars 4mo ago
  What does “hysterical” mean in this context?
  - shimman 4mo ago
    "I disagree with you and have zero awareness of the world around me."
- shimman 4mo ago
  Yeah canceling USAID programs that made the difference between life and death for millions of people around the world. Were you in a coma during DOGE in 2025 or are you being purposely selective in your memory? Nothing hysterical about killing millions of people, hopefully there becomes a movement in the US to not only try Elon Musk at say the International Criminal Court (which we all know will lead to successful conviction, the evidence is apparent and naked enough as is) but hopefully the US government nationalizes his assets as he is a danger to the world. Also the US should start throwing some oligarchs in prison to help rehabilitate its image after people start blaming us for causing famines and more deaths due to the recent imperial project that has become a total shit show. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund... "If founding is not restored by 2030, 8 to 10 million people will die." If Harvard is too woke for you here's a youtube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ8wm5PTKJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ8wm5PTKJg If Youtube is too woke for you, here's the book detailing this as well: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243105542-into-the-wood-chipper https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243105542-into-the-wood-... If books are woke for you, maybe just go back into your cave where concern trolling is more respected.
  - the_doctah 4mo ago
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  - keybored 4mo ago
    > Also the US should start throwing some oligarchs in prison to help rehabilitate its image after people start blaming us for causing famines and more deaths due to the recent imperial project that has become a total shit show. America’s image was based on media domination with a megaphone going in one direction. Let’s not go back to delusion and fantasy.
- dlev_pika 4mo ago
  Not to anyone with basic grasp of what USAID did or was
  - the_doctah 4mo ago
    [flagged]
    - dlev_pika 4mo ago
      We may agree or not regarding specific policies, but hard to imagine a less curious reply.
blurbleblurble 4mo ago
I don't believe in racial essentialism myself but I know someone who does *ducks to dodge downvotes for not only making a bad dad joke but a political one*

CamperBob2 4mo ago

Obviously Trump was not going to be a champion of clean, renewable energy. If he knew the "Trump thing" was coming -- which thanks to his position inside Twitter he probably did -- then the rational thing to do was, in fact, what he did. Suck up to Trump to try to avoid or shape the outcome. What he didn't need to do was alienate his existing customers by acting like he enjoyed it. Did he actually think he was going to sell a lot of EVs to Trumpers?