this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
789 points (99.5% liked)
Technology
84569 readers
3844 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
More than a million of the poorest people in the world have died - so far - of starvation, exposure, and preventable disease, because of DOGE's illegal cuts to federal programs like USAID.
Sure, we can call that "people losing income". It's technically true.
But Jesus, if I did something illegal and a million people died because of it, I'd spend the rest of my life in prison.
I've seen on here someone saying USAID was just US Imperialism. I'm still a bit flabbergasted. Yeah sure it's lipstick on a pig situation that the USA caused a lot of that. But then again, some of these people preach "don't let perfection get in the way of better" but don't practice it.
In the US you’d almost certainly be put to death for that
Given that this is at least the second time his administration's incompetence has caused a million deaths (Covid being the first), sounds like you'd get elected president rather than executed in the US.
If you did something that illegal, they'd name an interstate highway after you and try to get your face on the Nickel.
Clearly, not.