Yep. We argue in this piece that it's no accident that Musk decried "civilizational suicidal empathy" while his USAID cuts were going into effect, resulting in untold numbers of deaths abroad. It's a test run for a much worse abdication of empathy later:
Greg Sargent
Musk’s desire to scrap empathy is really a declaration that at some point, he believes, we'll need to cut loose all the civilizational dead weight (global poor and global south) to save the parts of humanity "worth" saving. It’s 1970s “lifeboat ethics” all over again.
newrepublic.com/article/2119...
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
