Yeah these hit me more than anything else. Not just that I’m attu ed to science but the damage to our country’s future far outweighs anything else.
Corruption can be prosecuted, racism can be condemned, even climate change just makes things worse for a few years longer and we’ll have to figure out how to deal, constitutional violations can be corrected with a new Congress, human rights can be reclaimed …. It’ll never be justice but it can be reversed.
Losing science may never be reversible. Science that drives our technology, our medicine, the entire huge research industry. As scientists are driven away, that’s a very long trail of technology, medicine, research done elsewhere, generations of children and students looking elsewhere
Actually I think of losing science like climate tipping points. If climate change were simply change, we could adapt and reverse. It would be foolish to do that intentionally do ourselves but we could deal with it. But crossing climate tipping points are a much bigger deal, much harder to adapt and likely never reversible
When a political movement believes that ignorance is strength
We’re in a timeline where Ogre from Revenge Of The Nerds has taken power over the country.
Might does NOT make right. You’re ability to beat somebody up or otherwise dominate them physically does not determine the validity of your beliefs. You can think the moon is made of cheese, and you might be able to beat into submission anyone who disagrees with you, but it won’t change the fact that the MOON ISN’T MADE OF FUCKING CHEESE!
Ignorance is NOT strength. Ignorance does NOT make you stronger, it makes you WEAKER.
I just don’t know how we get them to understand this. Somehow we have to get through to them, before they wreck everything.
The Nazis only learnt to understand it once they lost according to their own frame of reference, ie., they were beaten up by those they deemed ‘weak’.
We’re in a timeline where Ogre from Revenge Of The Nerds has taken power over the country.
Yeah that happened in 1776. Literal enslavers concocting their regime.
That not what I learned in school. Our founding fathers were the smartest, bravest, and most honorable people ever! /S
“Maga” isn’t in control of what the US Epstein class decides. US policies are decided/manufactured by the Trump backers, and neither Trump, Biden, Obama, Clinton or Bush had much to say about foreign or internal policies. They all follow the same psychopath bully strategy - ‘might is right’.
Internal projects like science was only possible when US could extract unlimited resources from other countries and attract bright minds. They can’t do that anymore, and all their pretend ‘values’ and short-term non-profitable projects are being rug-pulled…
‘Divide and conquer the population’, is used again to detract attention from the rich shitters that exert control of Merika and the western world. When will the US population learn ?? ‘Maga’ and ‘dems/libs’ are just managed groups of people voting for the same Epstein class system…
Unfortunately, it is not just the US.
MAGA is deconstructing the MIC? They’re ending the system of all R&D being funded by the Dept of War? They’re replacing violence, theft, and planetary destruction with meaningful progress?
Of course not. Krugman is full of shit as usual. He says as much in the second paragraph. Where has this dude been during the past couple years of genocide, etc? These worthless libs are largely how we got here.
Trump is in the process of killing American science. OK, that’s an exaggeration — but not that much of an exaggeration. The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal calls for a gigantic increase in military spending
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