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Comment Re:Guess which country funds WHO the most (Score 1) 267

by magzteel (#65107657) Attached to: US To Exit WHO

Bullshit. Bill and Melinda Gates fund the WHO almost as much as the whole US does, and in 2020/21 the US was third behind Bill & Melinda and Germay. Per capita I doubt the US is in the top 10.

According to WHO https://www.who.int/about/fund...

"The United States of America is the top donor and partner to WHO, contributing through assessed contributions and voluntary funding. The United States contributed US$ 1.284 billion during the 2022–2023 biennium"

The Gates foundation contributed about $450 million,

Comment Re:Guess which country funds WHO the most (Score 1) 267

by magzteel (#65107259) Attached to: US To Exit WHO

You don't understand the current deal, how would you know what a better one looks like?

The US got access to outbreak info in otherwise hostile nations. It had influence over how things were investigated and responded to.

That's going away now.

Other countries did too, for much much much less money

Comment Re:Oh no! Not that! (Score 1) 134

Almost like they should declare it a basic necessity and let the govt provide the service.

Did you know that AT&T controls 21 state-based, public telecommunications utility networks — but never mentions this fact? (Not NY)

It's odd because "home internet services" to me refers to homes serviced by wireline but AT&T doesn't offer that in New York. This is about wireless 5G internet service. I think the government is overstepping here.

Comment Re:Come on, let's hear it (Score 1) 111

You want white supremacy. You're the one talking about how you're going to be replaced by the non-whites. I'm not the one that feels inferior to other races and needs to be superior .

I don't know what "anti-whiteness" is considering that in America being white is the majority. You feel the minority class wants to be treated as equals and you see that as bad because you feel superior to them for whatever reason. You want white supremacy by any means necessary. That's why you're perfect for the neo-nazi's or the proud boys. Start paying your dues and get a membership card.

You are a racist nut

Comment Re:Come on, let's hear it (Score 1) 111

White supremacy is anti-racist?

Opposing anti-whiteness is anti-racist

You need to learn how to form a coherent sentence.

That's called white supremacy. They have clubs you can join the Ku Klux Klan or Trump's flavor, the Proud Boys.

Your inability to comprehend and your racist attitudes are not my problem. Opposing "anti-whiteness" isn't "white supremacy" any more than opposing "anti-blackness" would be black supremacy.

Comment Re:Come on, let's hear it (Score 1) 111

You're going to need to stop spending all your money on Trump collectable plates and go get your eyes checked.

Nope, you're being willfully ignorant. Spelled it out for you.

On Thursday morning, Musk continued on the same tear about the white race. He approved of a tweet reading: “Everyone is allowed to be proud of their race, except for white people, because we’ve been brainwashed into believing that our history was some how ‘worse’ than other races. This false narrative must die.”

Musk wrote: “Yeah, this is super messed up. Time for this nonsense to end and shame ANYONE who perpetuates these lies!”

The tweet provoked immediate and strong backlash both on X and off. Tweets condemning Musk’s reply as a “white supremacist conspiracy theory” poured in while antisemitic support for him erupted simultaneously. The Atlantic published an essay lambasting Musk, titled “Elon Musk’s Disturbing ‘Truth’”, and the watchdog publication MediaMatters headlined its story on the topic “Elon Musk lights his tiki torch”, in reference to the infamous 2017 march by white supremacists at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

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Musk’s racial politics have been trending in this direction for months. In October, he wrote in response to a tweet mourning the melting down of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee: “They absolutely want your extinction.” Replying to a tweet from @libsoftiktok, who he restored to X, which read: “Racism against white people is the only kind of discrimination that’s allowed,” Musk wrote last week: “It’s messed up and needs to stop.”

Since taking over Twitter in October 2022, Musk has restored controversial conservative accounts while simultaneously banning journalists and penalizing accounts critical of him.

All of those positions are anti-racist

Comment Re:SLS is a big part of Artemis and costs a fortun (Score 1) 45

$2 billion per launch and Artemis needs many of them. It's not sustainable.

It's even worse than $2bln.

https://www.space.com/nasa-sls...

"In late 2021, a report by NASA's Office of Inspector General showed that NASA will likely spend a total of $93 billion on the Artemis program between 2012 and 2025, and that each SLS launch will cost about $4.1 billion."

That's insanity

Comment SLS is a big part of Artemis and costs a fortune (Score 3, Informative) 45

The Space Launch System (SLS) is a big part of the Artemis program. It has cost $26B so far and it is estimated to cost $2B per launch. That sounds awesome for Boeing and the other contractors but it's crazy for the taxpayers. $2 billion per launch and Artemis needs many of them. It's not sustainable.

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