After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs
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Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 39d
“We’re okay with that.”
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 39d
Yeah, this and many similar or even worse scenarios have been 100% foreseeable before they did that.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 39d
"But I prefer them much younger" - Trump
okamiueru@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 39d
In any morally just world, Musk and all those who enacted the USAID cuts would have all their material wealth removed in order to compensate for the cruelty of their actions
It's estimated at
3022 million avoidable deaths by 2030.https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/03/aid-cuts-avoidable-deaths-study-children-uk-us-donor-countries
Edit: Correction, 22 million, not 30. Still about twice the body count of Hitler and Nazi Germany. But, it's cool that he became a trillionaire.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 39d
Everything the USA touches outside its own borders goes to shit eventually.
Not saying everything inside its borders is hunky-dory btw.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 39d
Well the reality is that sometimes the US does do a lot of good outside of its borders almost never because of Republicans but when it's cut down or left limping you bet your ass is always because of Republicans
The most pressing example I can think of from recent history is the controlled release of sterile flies to stop the spread of screw worm and as it has been defunded under the Trump admin it has begun spreading again
markm@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 28d
…and the measles resurgence.