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Don't you know, "humanitarian" falls under their "woke" umbrella.
These people think they're some kind of special above other humans. Musk literally believes everything is a simulation and only he is real.
Guys, is it woke to have compassion, empathy, and value humanism?
In their eyes, yes it is.
Isn't humanitarian just some new gender? Sounds woke AF..
I don’t know what’s worse, being Sleepy or Being woke
Wait, it's not vegetarian, pescatarian, humanitarian?
Musks eyes are currently bloodshot from all the ketamine and cocaine he has taken, that's why he's wearing shades
Step 1: Get rid of USAID
Step 2: Cut all food stamps
Step 3: Most US farmers go out of bussiness
Step 4: Rich people buy up all farm land
Step 5: Food prices skyrocket due to monopolies and mismanagement and the rich get to become feudal lords.
Step 6: We feed the billionaires to the wood chipper and have French Revolution: American-style.
I think in the interest of efficiency we need to just skip ahead to step 6.
Step 6 - Let 2/3 of the earth population die, replace most jobs with automation and AI. Keep the 1/3 of the population remaning as slaves and distraction. Enjoy the utlimate victory of capitalism.
Cancelling contracts already in progress. The epitome of "efficiency".
Yep, they'll get the government sued and lose so much more money through litigation and actually losing the law suits.
But of course, they don't care, for all their talk about deficits and taxes they know it's not their money in the end.
Unless some genius lawyer manages to somehow make Musk personally liable, of course, because none of this Doge stuff looks set up properly, so if the US ever does get back to some sort of rule of law, people will get in trouble for breaking all sorts of laws.
Trump's admin has already shown that you can't really sue the federal government into compliance if there isn't anyone to enforce it. Sure, those countries and companies and people can sue the US for breach of contract. The government will laugh in their face and not pay, simple as that. Trump literally made his millions doing exactly this.
It just shows that efficiency isn't what this is about. It's about destruction.
Destruction Of Government Enterprise
Refusing to pay people and honor contracts has been Trump's MO for decades.
In a lot of these cases, the money has already been paid for these contracts*. "Cutting" them isn't even saving any money, because the money has already been spent.
I don't think the title could be any more clickbaity.
"Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie"
causing UNSPECIFIED event that of UNSPECIFIED lie of <unpopular movement [on lemmy]>
Yeah I had to downvote it on the principal of clickbait articles.
It's the title of the article. The person posting the article here didn't chose the article title. They could have found an alternative source with a better headline, but if we start doing that we're going to miss out on some important news because some people are lazy or some news isn't covered everywhere, I'm guessing.
US workers : I know it's mighty easy to say from a distance, but now is the time for disobedience
The best time for protest and disobedience was weeks ago. The second best time is now.
Stay cool. It is going to hit the violent right wing especially hard. They will eventually figure it out since, in most cases, their people hold every positions of power from the dog catchers to the White house. The, "Hey look, something shiny over there", will get old, even for those morons.
Do not stay cool! Why are you tempering yourself when your own government is being taken apart before your eyes?
Americans are cowards. Even us Canadians are largely the same in that regard. We just keep letting this stuff happen because we think we’re being clever and most of us are so fucking brain-dead that imagining a better world is next to impossible.
Even from a very cynical POV, this money was soft power. It was an investment to sell other products to the world.
Why do you think the world doesn't eat north korean burgers or watch russian blockbusters?
And not to mention that the food ... it's not bought from all over the world, a ton of the money was used to buy from farmers in the USA.
Outside of the ruling class in Russia, I don't think there is much of an audience for their blockbuster "hilarious falls from 8th story windows".
Elon "I love killing poor children" Musk
Considering his history as a white, South African, he probably is pretty delighted that he gets to make poor black babies starve there.
You are all a sacrifice I'm willing to make to save a buck
and wreck an ugly MAGA lie
The problem is that MAGA people either don't know about the problem, don't care about the problem, or would actively harm foreigners (or American minorities, for that matter) if it put even a penny in their pocket or made them feel superior.
Only the people that already know the republicans are lying their pants off know it's a lie, a fact worsened by corporate news media and social media firms censoring the virality of anything that could hurt the far-right.
There’s always another believable lie. Some other reason why.
My wife’s best friend has a conservative brother that got fired under DOGE shenanigans. 6-figure job that they relocated him to Germany to do. Now he doesn’t know if they’re even going to help him with relocating back to the U.S.
He says this is just a normal pendulum swing in life/politics, and it’s a reaction to liberal overreach. …? Not an ounce of ire toward the people who actually did this to him.
Many just straight up don't believe you when you tell or even show them. They think you're brainwashed so they don't take you seriously. They just believe Big Brother loves them and would never lie to them.
These trash humans got where they are by not caring about anyone but themselves. Their fans are mainly made up of people just like them. Therefore nothing horrible they do will convince most of their followers.
Not gonna change until it wrecks a few million maga lives.
If only the "pro-life" Trump voters actually cared about the lives of children.
They only care about the control using children as an excuse. Woman and abortion, privacy and csam ect.
"'The unborn' are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn."
~David Barnhart
The only reason pro choice exists is because the republican party found the perfect groups to advocate for and against. It makes their constituents feel all warm and fuzzy to say they're pro life, while they're given an equally convenient group to hate. Trans people make up just slightly less than one percent of the US population and the odds of one of their constituents will actually meet a trans person are significantly lower than them meeting that nice middle class gay/black Christian protestant couple who sometimes invites them over for supper after church on Sundays.
The Dems should make some mention about this on the Sunday morning shows, if they were smart about it.
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No one dumb and selfish enough to vote for Trump will care about the suffering of people outside the US.
I mean yes, but the Democratic voting base will. Then promising to restore international aid would probably secure a good number of first and second generation immigrants' votes.
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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Are you implying they care about the suffering of people within the US? Because they verifiably do not...
No, that's literally not what they implied. You're unironically doing the "so you hate waffles?" thing.
A bad decision at so many levels. It's inhumane and they are loosing a soft power of being the good guys. Then, we will hear from western propaganda that it's China who is "buying" Africa's favors by providing humanitarian help.
Just help others for the sake of it, it's not that difficult.
If Musk and Trump dislike wokeness so much, they should just go to sleep, and let others handle the statecraft.
Musk’s obsession with ‘efficiency’ is costing thousands of lives—this is dystopian governance.
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So what I'm hearing is that peanuts and vitamins are gonna be cheaper?
And all it costs is several thousand lives in countries most Americans couldn't pick out on a map, and a bunch of anxiety for peanut farmers.
What a great deal. Nobody could have made a better, more Christ-like deal.
These cuts contradict claims about targeting “wokeness” or “waste,” instead showing a reckless abandonment of America’s global humanitarian commitments.
How is this a contradiction? What did you think they meant?