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by kelnos 481 days ago
> It is not evil to ask these questions or to experiment with government

Asking these questions is fine -- good and necessary even. But the evil comes when one of your reckless experiments shuts down an agency that's providing medical care to HIV-positive pregnant women in Africa, and when their babies are born during the disruption, we find that they have contracted their mothers' HIV, because of that missing medical care.

This is just one example among many. It's not hyperbole to suggest that people will die because of what DOGE is doing.

> Are the people of 2024 France really getting 28x the value from their government as 1800 USA?

I think that's a very easy "yes".