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There's no way I will continue to use Cursor if it's Elon-owned. His actions at DOGE literally caused the deaths of thousands. We should all boycott.


hundreds of thousands


Musk's completely pointless destruction of USAID will kill millions of people.


Yep, and the majority of them are children. It’s so horrific that it deserves to be brought up any time Musk is mentioned for the rest of his life.


Citation needed.


https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Thousands is a conservative under count according to this.


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Two things:

A) With great power comes great responsibility + making the world better through eradication of diseases, heightened food and economic security, improvements to the stability of nations, access to shared research and information, and increased personal agency makes it all better for Americans too.

B) Given you probably find (A) uncompelling, you should familiarize yourself with the concept of "soft power" and try to learn a bit about how relatively inexpensive it's been for the US to have an outsized influence around the world over the past many decades (outside of stupid, unnecessary wars, of course) and the benefits that's yielded for our economic and geopolitical interests across the board. If you'd prefer to not though, don't worry -- provided you're around for a couple more decades, you're going to get a crash course in the alternative.


That must be why Trump spent over $50B bombing Iran and agreed to pay them several hundred billion to go back to the status quo.


> it's not Americas job to take care of the rest of the world.

No, it’s not. But suggest you read about the role of “soft power” in diplomacy. The current administration seems to believe that only force, threats of force, and coercion can extend and maintain U.S. influence. But they are quickly learning the limits of this “strategy.”


This comment is fundamentally not understanding USAID's role. You are not equipped for a discussion on this issue.


I'm Israeli. Trump worked with Netanyahu in trying to "convince" the people of Gaza to leave, so Trump could turn Gaza into a vacation resort.

Musk of course used twitter so Trump could get elected.


do also note that twitter is now the only place not censored by Israel.


How does Israel have the power to censor everything but Twitter?


>His actions at DOGE literally caused the deaths of thousands.

you mean that part where the US spends billions of dollars helping other countries and they hate us for our troubles?


pretty sure they hate us for other reasons and also reducing how much AIDS and ebola is in the world is good, this seems obvious to me




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