It’s amazing how the left invented and now believe the myth that Elon Musk reneged on his promise to end world hunger. It always leaves out that he said “it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent.”
▪️He was calling the World Food Program’s (WFP’s) bluff, while responding to a tweet pointing out that the WFP already raised $8.4B in 2020 yet didn’t solve hunger! He literally says if the WFP could show how $6B would end hunger he’d sell Tesla stock and do it.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1454809318356750337?s=20&t=HS0-NSrVF8EwW80k_Xgpag
▪️Musk highlighted what should be obvious, that $6B given to the UN wouldn’t solve world hunger. The US alone gives $11B to the UN every year. Michael Shellenberger wrote a piece at the time showing it was hopelessly naive to believe $6B would help 42M starving people.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/13/elon-musk-is-right-world-hunger-cant-be-solved-with-6-billion/
▪️The most obvious reason UN food aid doesn’t solve hunger is that it gets stolen, usually by local warlords/govts to buy arms. Starving people are almost exclusively found in war zones or areas with hostile political turmoil. How would the UN get food to those in Afghanistan or Yemen?! This is why Musk asked for open source accounting.
▪️Notice that there is never a similar objection to something like the student loan forgiveness plan, which will likely cost well over $500B. This could supposedly solve world hunger 100 times over according to the same logic, but the “logic” is only reserved for ammunition against billionaires.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
