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Elon Musk's Cuts Led to an Estimated 500k Deaths of Children

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Yeah, the submitter seems to have an unhealthy unidirectional relationship: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Alien1Being

I mean, https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/the-...

It's not hard to find people citing numbers. The number is definitely not 0.

If a non-government actor showed up to your government, caused it to kill people, and shows zero remorse nor are there any consequences, you could see how one might focus on them, since, they're a person and not an untouchable god.

don't you dare talk bad things about my billionaire!

I don't know how many deaths will be product of his actions, but it is absolutely clear it will be _at least_ (and this is being generous) in the thousands of people. THAT ALONE should be enough, but I'm not surprised with a half a million number.

Of course, the elon lovers will discredit whatever number that is not zero.

Can you tell me about the non-profits that you donate to using your own money to feed children in other countries? Or is it just everyone else's money that needs to be taken through force and then sent overseas to support other people's children instead of being used to support their own? Over half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with ballooning credit card debt bills, yet we have childless liberals that cry out for the poor children overseas who we will never know and how desperate they are, while our own children can't afford to pay for their own grocery bills or afford rent.

So did Elon Musk use the money saved from these cuts to provide for domestic welfare? Or did he support the huge Republican tax cut along with cuts to healthcare programs for Americans?

So we shouldn't do anything about it unless we can measure the gallons of blood on his hands?

https://www.impactcounter.com/methodology

The opposition offers quite literally nothing of substance to actually refute any of the data:

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairma...

https://www.clasp.org/doge-tracker/

Some previous discussion in 2025:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142790

I call BS

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