@gowronseyes@LauraPowellEsq@ZaidJilani Ahh I see, you just don't understand what the word "directly" means. Gotta stop wasting my time engaging with mouth-breathing retards, good day kiddo!
@gowronseyes@LauraPowellEsq@ZaidJilani That would be a more reasonable take, but it is absolutely not what Kristof is saying lol
The unnecessary deaths in those cases were all directly attributable to the incompetence or corruption of *their* governments
The US deciding to not drown them in free money killed no one
@ZaidJilani I don't think you know what a motte and bailey is. Let me help you.
Kristof: Elon personally killed people.
Elon: Name the people I killed.
Kristof: Well, someone died in Liberia this one time because the local ambulance didn't have any gas.
Hope that helps, you absolute retard
@ShabazzStuart Thinking that this has anything to do with how "well run" NYC is, and not the accident that global finance happened to centralize there, is an absolutely embarrassing level of fucktardery.
@Kareybean@NathanJRobinson I'm not, more obviously pathetic misdirection.
You couldn't answer two very simple questions, because either you know answering the questions that you are, in fact, claiming every preventable death everywhere is the US's fault.
That, or you might just be too stupid to follow.
@Kareybean@NathanJRobinson Two questions:
-If someone dies in similar preventable circumstances in a country that doesn't get USAID, is their death the US's fault?
-If USAID provides aid to Liberia, are we permanently responsible for preventable death in Liberia?
If "no" and "no", your premise fails.
@Kareybean@NathanJRobinson It's not, I wouldn't have cut that funding. That's (obviously) not what my post is about.
I can disagree with the funding without taking the absurd position that every preventable death everywhere is the US's fault. Simple.
You can criticize policy without being unhinged morons
@Alonso_GD Simple question:
If a US citizen dies in the US of a medical condition because he could not access healthcare, is China responsible for their death because they did not fund his medical care?
@BladeoftheS People dying in Liberia because of easily preventable causes is not the fault of Elon Musk or the US, it is the fault of Liberia and Liberian leadership.
Hope that clears up this very obvious motivated reasoning!
@DavideVeritas I know it's a lot of work rubbing those 3 neurons together, but if you can put big-boy pants on long enough to use *four* neurons, you may realize that by "bad for the economy" you mean "bad for renters and working people".
Go on, I know you can do it kiddo!
@AriDrennen They aren't obsessed with that, because its actually completely impossible to change your sex.
What they're obsessed with is not going along with a society-level delusion that this absolute nonsense is legitimate.
@Dylanmadden Whenever I hear this "doing everything right" thing I never see it actually play out in the example.
Why is he living in Philly if he cant afford high cost of living? Why is he planning on saving his parents from their shit decisions? What debt is he managing with no mortgage?
@femanarchism Just making shit up now, eh?
I live in the south. We have waaaaay more poverty in my area than San Francisco. We don't have any of this stuff locked up in our stores. If your argument wasn't utterly retarded vacuous fucktardery, we would have more.
It's culture, period.