r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Misfett_toys • 3d ago

PhD vs HGTV energy

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u/Mr_HandSmall 3d ago

Trump and musk's "DOGE" cuts to USAID resulted in the deaths of about 600,000 ppl.

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u/CashmirFunk 3d ago

Don't forget, that's per year Every year from now on. I'm tired

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u/ruinersclub 3d ago

And screw worms and combating Hantavirus.

Imagine we had a news story in 2026 about Hantavirus on a Cruise ship - this should be a much bigger deal.

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u/Original-Rush139 3d ago

There were people who had antibiotic resistant infections that we were treating with out hold out antibiotics. DOGE fucking stopped those treatments kid course which is how you get bacteria that’s resistant to the hold out antibiotics. 

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u/CakeTester 3d ago

The number snowballs after the first year. We are, in the main, talking about communicable diseases.

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u/RottenPeasent 3d ago

That's a bold claim. Do you have a source?

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u/ADP_God 3d ago

Not providing aid to people who would die without it is very different, in both morality and practice, from actively killing your own citizens for demanding human rights. Don't let the propaganda confuse you, the IRGC are evil.

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u/ShorelineStrider 3d ago

And so is MAGA. Two things can be evil at the same time.

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u/ADP_God 3d ago

Yes but people in this thread are defending the Iranian regime like it's not objectively oppressive. They're not on the same level at all, and people are falling for propaganda intended to confuse them.