| ▲ | marcusverus 4 hours ago | |
If these figure represent actual deaths (big if), those people will have died because literally nobody on earth was willing to pay to keep them alive--yourself included. | ||
| ▲ | macintux 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
If a pillar is removed from a building with no warning, no one would claim that its collapse was from the unwillingness of anyone else to put a new one in place. If DOGE had announced a 2-year phaseout of humanitarian aid, governments and NGOs might have had time to fill the gap. Doing so arbitrarily and abruptly was simply cruel. | ||
| ▲ | rightbyte 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
A gigantic rug pull of bread and medicine is really not where we should blame the poor. | ||
| ▲ | evantbyrne 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Not everyone is looking to save a buck at anyone's expense. Don't ever make the mistake of thinking we're the same. | ||
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| ▲ | lmohseni 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
But wait, I do pay taxes? By you logic, no policy choice can ever cause harm because the responsibility is always redistributable to several billion bystanders. Pretty convenient! | ||