Summary

The Trump administration has canceled 90% of USAID's foreign aid contracts, including critical programs that provide lifesaving therapeutic food to malnourished children.

Mana Nutrition's CEO reports that ready-to-ship boxes of peanut paste that could save approximately 300,000 children are now stranded in a Georgia warehouse.

Despite Secretary of State Rubio's claims that "lifesaving humanitarian assistance" would be spared, numerous essential health programs have been terminated, including those preventing diseases like polio, HIV, and Ebola.

These cuts contradict claims about targeting "wokeness" or "waste," instead showing a reckless abandonment of America's global humanitarian commitments.

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[–] 132 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

humanitarian commitments

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.

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    [–] 107 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Step 6: We feed the billionaires to the wood chipper and have French Revolution: American-style.

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  • [–] 90 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Cancelling contracts already in progress. The epitome of "efficiency".

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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]>

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    US workers : I know it's mighty easy to say from a distance, but now is the time for disobedience

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    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?

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Elon "I love killing poor children" Musk

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Not gonna change until it wrecks a few million maga lives.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If only the "pro-life" Trump voters actually cared about the lives of children.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    "'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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Dems should make some mention about this on the Sunday morning shows, if they were smart about it.

    This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    No one dumb and selfish enough to vote for Trump will care about the suffering of people outside the US.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    If Musk and Trump dislike wokeness so much, they should just go to sleep, and let others handle the statecraft.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Musk’s obsession with ‘efficiency’ is costing thousands of lives—this is dystopian governance.

    🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    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?

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