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points by archagon 1 day ago | 0 comments
Yes, it fucking happened. These people have names and reputable journalists on the ground talked to the grieving family members of the deceased: https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/07/how-pulitzer-final..., https://www.propublica.org/series/the-end-of-aid

I have read multiple articles to the same effect from other publications. Aid got cut off instantly (to the extent that supply trucks were left without gasoline), people could not access medicine and food that they needed to survive, and then they died, horribly. That was just ground zero.

Get out of your bubble before you destroy yourself.

[–] FeepingCreature 1 day ago
Yes, people died. People did not die at the scale reported.

edit: Okay fine, I'll rephrase it. There is no convincing evidence at this point of mass deaths. It's entirely speculative on the basis, frankly, of assumptions we know to be wrong.

[–] olelele 21 hours ago
Seriously my dude, this is not a hill to die on.
[–] FeepingCreature 12 hours ago
Please by all means! I was behind the 700k number for months before I read the fine print and the SA mortality stats. Please give me better data.