• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Plus between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people around the world wherever USaid was providing medical care and food for people in bad conditions, like remote villages, refugees and subsistence farms impacted by weather and famine and so many more souls that we gave hope and health to for pennies a year.

    Just the most absolute cruel and heartless people in the world.

    Imagine the person you love the most in life, sick and needing medicine and suddenly the only source of this cheap care tells you one day “Nah, you’re on you’re own” and having to watch that person die because some politician somewhere decided to make a performative statement about “empathy and wokeness”

    I don’t know about anyone else, but I would probably swear to burn the whole world down in revenge. The US is going to have massive problems that we fully deserve.

    Honestly, the numbers thing is really bugging me. We are fixated on the dozens of people directly targeted by attacks, but when the toll becomes higher than a few hundred, suddenly it’s abstract and people don’t seem to care nearly as much when it’s the exact same intention and consequence as if someone went and shot these people.

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      Oh yeah, how could americans possibly know what it’s like to die of preventable illness because treatment is unavailable to them?

      The number of americans sacrificed to health insurance companies every year is no small number either if it could be accurately counted.