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Honestly a shame it has to come to this. Sure, people elected this administration and I guess with that comes with a bunch things I disagree with. But the removal of years of scientific research and data from the web (paid for by citizens with their taxes) is absolutely unacceptable. Ravaging CDC data, climate data, etc is horrendous and unforgivable.


It's today's equivalent of book burnings.

"where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well."

Those who delete research will ultimately delete people as well.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine


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Getting upset that USAID spent the government equivalent of pocket change on programs that nominally helped other countries and practically bound them to US soft power is (1) cutting off your nose to spite your face and (2) not equivalent to deleting data that money was already spent on.


At face value I agree with everything USAID stands for, but it sounds like you have some examples in mind you want to provide.


Good luck getting any responses that have been corroborated outside of Musk's ramblings. So much for 'transparency'.

If someone was truly looking to audit places to save money, it's always been odd to me that USAID was first. Now this story comes out...

https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukra...


We cancelled $100,000 in life saving donations because half a penny was spent on something considered “woke”.




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