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How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People (www.currentaffairs.org)
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For more than 12 years, Nicholas Enrich worked at USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, rising to become one of the agency's top global health officials. Then, in a matter of weeks, he watched as the Trump administration and Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) dismantled the six-decade-old agency responsible for delivering American foreign aid around the world. 

Enrich documented the experience in his book Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID. He joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss what happened behind the scenes, and its devastating consequences.

This is what Mass Murder looks like.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago

The most apt imagery is the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, as a metaphor for every institution that was dismantled by DOGE.

It's easy for anyone to hire guys with excavators to tear down a building, if you don't care about the building's contents, its purpose or the environment around it. You don't even need to know how to get a ballroom built even if that's what you'd want after. Without pre-emptive restrictions and enforcement of checks on the executive's power, the destruction can always be faster than the judicial system that would say "that's wrong, don't do that".