https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/
"This decade has seen the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in
violent conflicts: in the Tigray War in Ethiopia, in civil war in Myanmar, in
the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in
Gaza, and most recently in the RSF massacres in the Sudanese city of Al-Fashir,
to name just a few. Yet the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of
this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the
world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
Elon Musk's rampage through America's foreign aid programs has largely been
forgotten in recent months. Musk went back to his private endeavors, having
comically fallen from Donald Trump's good graces into one of his most
spectacular periods of X posting madness. The administration has chugged along,
ramping up its abuse and serving up fresh scandals by the day. But the
termination of American foreign aid has not been forgotten in the developing
world, where the sudden absence of the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) has left death and destruction.
Every day, this administration does deplorable things, which rightly draw
outrage; but the single most deplorable thing has settled into the background.
In the hopes that tomorrow's histories remember the story of the crime and not
just the statistics of the aftermath, I seek to document in this article what
Elon Musk has done."
Via John Skiles Skinner and Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
