The world’s richest man is causing the world’s poorest to die
But they’re black so they don’t count in MAGA world, I guess.
As long as we get a tax cut for the extremely wealthy, I’m cool with it.
Link: https://x.com/nickkristof/status/1900869145685836189?s=46&t=kVeQeQf8ed0KokuRgfOE0g
Replies to: The world’s richest man is causing the world’s poorest to die
What are you personally doing to help? Nothing?
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I voted against it. Unlike you.
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You spent more on Pels tix than helping Sudan.
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He donated $55 m to St Jude. I wonder How many kids were saved with that $. How much did you donate?
Care to reveal?
His personal wealth, either being the richest or being the poorest, has nothing to do with what he is doing on USAID. It's a policy issue, not personal issue. He is working for American taxpayers to save their money.
Proportionally more than he did. And I didn’t kill anyone.
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I doubt about your math. Musk's wealth is paper wealth, not real wealth (actual physical assets)
You need include your paper wealth in your math too, such as your stocks, bonds, retirement savings of 401k, as well as your physical properties and your incomes.
Yeah, my money is not in offshore bank accounts and dachas, like your hero Putin’s is
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You don’t donate a difference-making amount. He does.
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I’ll just leave this here. I’m sure you never heard or read this before.
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Kristof is a leftist idiot as is the NYT.
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Why is it the US taxpayers responsibility to be the welfare program for the world?
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As both parties for decades have known...foreign aid is "Soft Power" that works for our own self
interest...and because, as the world's wealthiest nation, it's the right thing to do for our fellow human beings on this planet...btw, all the major religions teach such behavior.
Answered below by Nick Kristof:
Think like an American, Tampa:
“Some of you may be thinking: This is very sad, but why is it our job to keep kids alive in poor countries?
There are two answers to that. The first is that U.S.A.I.D. was established to advance our national interests as well as our values, and its demolition means that the United States loses soft power and China gains. Already, China has moved to replace the United States as the most visible supporter of Cambodia, and we’ll see the same elsewhere, particularly in Africa and the South Pacific.
Antiterrorism programs in Syria and West Africa are faltering and may lead to new attacks on Americans. Surveillance for early detection of avian flu and Ebola are weakened, and an epidemic of either disease could reach America and cost billions of dollars. Trump’s defunding of the polio eradication effort may lead, by one U.S.A.I.D. official’s estimate, to 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year.
The same official warned that the aid stoppage could lead to nearly a one-third increase in tuberculosis cases. Some of those will reach the United States and lead to enormous expense — a single case of extensively drug-resistant TB can cost $500,000 to manage.
The second answer to that query reflects not a calculation of self-interest but the moral code we live by. In this century, we are all blessed with miraculous, almost biblical powers: We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively: America spends just 0.24 percent of gross national income on humanitarian aid. We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease.
That is, until January.“
So you don’t have any thoughts of your own and have to go to a Liberal mouthpiece?
Tell me you’re not a free thinker without actually saying it. I know you hate the thought of America first and your daily garbage posts proves that.
Typical weak sauce retort when Truth smacks you in the face.
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Maybe... but this political talking point has jumped the shark.
The Dems gotta hope the whole tariff thing triggers a serious recession that impacts blue collar workers.
They are the ones who've switched allegiances.
Here in Michigan a tariff war with Canada could devastate our auto industry.
Even during Lent, the Board’s cult members will just shrug their shoulders.
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As will you. You will do nothing.
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You don't actually care about those people.
Any more than you care about people dying in Ukraine.
And they’ll know we are Christians by our love ….
You're more like the Pharisees than Jesus.
The Pharisees saw Jesus as a blaspheming, law-breaking, false prophet who compromised His integrity as a man of God by eating and drinking with the ungodly – tax collectors and sinners. They saw Him as being used by Satan to lead the people of Israel astray. They believed He needed to be stopped because He was a demon-possessed deceiver who disregarded the law and the prophets. Eventually, they decided that He would need to be put to death.
Don't you mean by our wars?
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I do, actually. Hard to imagine. Maybe it’s because they’re already born.
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What are YOU doing about it then?
Caring = action
You’re totally right he’s absolved.
Fucking moron.
As I knew, it's not about the kids, it's about your hatred for Elon.
Elon makes you feel inadequate and impotent I suppose. He's not going out of his way to save this country in order to promote suffering in the world, quite the opposite. This is the man who is singlehandedly trying to make humans into a multiplanetary species so that a single asteroid doesn't take out the species. This is the man who donates his starlink internet throughout the world that literally saves lives. Again, what are you doing?
IMO Elon is just causing unneeded chaos, which everyone can now see...even Trump is feeling the heat
from Elon's blunders. It's not about Hate, it's about wanting Musk to cease and desist from all this government mayhem. He needs to get back in his lane as a government contractor for SpaceX, etc. and let Congress and Trump do their jobs, re: government efficiency...no counter-productive short cuts that disrupt services, only to require more funding to repair.
Unfortunately for you, Elon isn't much of a quitter.
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He may want to rethink his 'commitment' to DOGE as Tesla sales plummet worldwide, and GOP
legislators can't even hold Town Halls without getting an earful from their Conservative constituents.
I agree with this for selfish reasons…
I love Teslas and I own Tesla stock. Luckily, I am still up on those.
Should we start a GoFundMe?
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Go ahead without me...
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Projecting again?
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