Elon Musk is responsible for "killing the poorest children," says Bill Gates

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mullingitover · 4h ago

Related, the impact dashboard showing the number of projected deaths from Musk's gutting of US international aid programs[1].

The deaths he will cause from the cessation of tuberculosis aid alone, by 2030, would make Pol Pot blush.

[1] https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=fund...

Swenrekcah · 4h ago

The contrast between these two men is incredible.

tim333 · 2h ago

I'm surprised Musk, who seemed a decent guy went for that. Not sure why?

mullingitover · 2h ago

Depends on your definition of decent, I suppose. He’s been, very publicly, a reprehensible bigot for years now. He disowned his trans daughter and said she’s “dead.” He regularly uses slurs.

foxyv · 2h ago

This is really common in grandiose narcissists. You get a honeymoon phase where they are amazing and beautiful people. Then they get worse and worse over time once they get their hooks into people. Then when their victims speak out, all their fans react poorly because of how wonderful they were.

This is why a lot of people will defend serial abusers with the phrase: "But he is such a nice guy!"

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Elon Musk is responsible for "killing the poorest children," says Bill Gates

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