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Elon Musk demands one name of someone killed by aid cuts, gets a list

There are many ways to lose an argument online. Asking for the names of dead children is one of the darker ones.

Jason Weisberger
Jun 29, 2026
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Elon Musk demanded that critics name “a single” person who died because of DOGE-driven foreign aid cuts, and then experienced the rare online phenomenon of receiving exactly what he asked for.

This is the hideous little trick at the center of austerity cruelty: demand one body, then pretend the machine …

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