The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID
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The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID
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#3I confess it has been awkward to see the pearl clutching on this one. Like, the folks that were flat out proud of the implications are now offended at being tied to them. Just, what?
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#4A totally expected result from an administration that considers empathy weakness, friendship exploitative, facts optional and every verb transactional.
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#5A totally expected result from an administration that considers empathy weakness, friendship exploitative, facts optional and every verb transactional.
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#6The part that's indefensible is the illegal and sudden nature of the cuts. You have absolutely no moral obligation to pay for bungee jumping lessons for your friends, but if you cut the cord after he jumps, you're still a murderer.
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#7A totally expected result from an administration that considers empathy weakness, friendship exploitative, facts optional and every verb transactional.
Why were Americans paying for transgender clinics in India?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
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What the hell are you even talking about?
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#10A totally expected result from an administration that considers empathy weakness, friendship exploitative, facts optional and every verb transactional.
It's interesting (by which I mostly mean "fucked") how some proponents are acknowledging the consequences after the fact, even for selfish reasons--like Musk "believ[ing] he’s going to be held accountable by history"--but it's obviously too late to undo the damage, and they'll still never outright admit "you were right and we were wrong" to everyone who predicted exactly what would happen.
I don't know if there's a word for it, but the mentality or personality trait or whatever that makes people hand-wave away completely predictable outcomes until they actually happen is beyond infuriating. It's bad enough when it's just a shitty team lead who's steering a project off a cliff. At this scale I can't even think about it for too long or I get lightheaded.