• Vespair@lemmy.zip
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    That’s only the half of it. Look at the rest of the policies, look how they want to cut Medicare and food stamps and other safety net programs.

    Make no mistake, this administration wants to see people die.

    This is the end game the technocrats have been working towards, this is how they’re enacting their eugenics. They want poor people, disabled people, disadvantaged people, to die. They believe they are culling the weak members of the herd for the sake of the betterment of “their” kind (rich, white, “healthy”, etc).

    These policies aren’t stupid or ineffective, they are cruel and insidious by design

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    A country for REAL (white Christian male) Americans.

    When are you people going to get the message. It was never a country that was about equality. It was about enrichment for a select group of people. When their privilege was threatened, the veil came off.

    None of this changes until the rest of America decides enough is enough. That might never happen. If it does, it won’t be for years or decades.

    The US died on Jan 20th, 2025.

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    Every good authoritorian dictatorsihp first goes for the educated people cause smart people know this shit is fucked… hitler, mao, polpot, stalin, lenin never failed to do this.

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    I used to wonder how did the Islamic Golden Age end, how did the Muslim World go from leader in science, technology and commerce to has-been. Now I see leaders in the West destroying in years what took centuries to build. Civilizations like living organisms go through cycles of birth, rise, stagnation and decline, some make a comeback in a different form like Europe after the Renaissance and China after Communism, and some don’t. Good thing we have other nations picking up after the decline of Western Civilization.

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      The Islamic golden age ended because of centuries of European crusades followed by the mongol invasion. It had little to do with a lack of appreciation for science and scientists.

      But there is only so much scholars can do, when under relentless attacks by barbarians.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

      This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom, which saw scholars from all over the Muslim world flock to Baghdad, the world’s largest city at the time, to translate the known world’s classical knowledge into Arabic and Persian.[4] The period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.

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    Well, that happened to Germany back in the 1930s/40s. Before that, about 1/3 of Nobel Prizes went to German scientists.

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    Europe will welcome them with open arms.

    People starts to realize that having a higher wage in the US doesn’t translate into a better quality of life.

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      Quality has nothing to do with the money they gain, but whith what they can buy for it, apart of the quality of the public services. Higher wages in the US mean nothing, when even this isn’t enough for education and health, which in the EU isn’t a problem. There the people don’t lose their existence base because of hospital bills or to pay the studies of their children.

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      only the PI/PHDs, and postodcs, the ones that do “majority of the work” in a research lab, undergrads, and grads wont have the same opportunities in europe.

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        In the “first world” sphere that regularly ignores and denigrate any country that could be perceived as inferior even if it’s not necessarily, then yes, maybe. We’re doing great over here in some places that are often overlooked.

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          Unfortunately I think Trumpism is lowering the bar. Maybe right now it’s not fascism everywhere, but there’s no doubt that on a decades time the world will be more fascist than it would have been without Trump.

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        no, but it safer than if a authoritarian is control, like trump, Russia, and china. until those other countries in europe starts attacking science(defunding, jailing them, or alternative “science”) its better than the US.

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    This doesn’t really save money. It does however create a burning of the books effect.

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    A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

    They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

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        America is still slightly ahead of Russia there, due to the legacy of the USSR. Not that Russia’s billionaires aren’t doing their best to privatize education and keep it out of reach of the peasantry since the fall of communism.

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          the oligarchs of russia sends thier children to elite or standard western colleges, russian is a shithole even for them for education.

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            Yeah, and a lot of the 56% college grad rate is boomers who were educated before the fall and are now dying off. We will see it drop precipitously in the next 20 years or so, and the quality of the education of the newly graduated decline.

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        As an outsider, I honestly and sincerely invite anyone to explain how any of what’s going on in the US today isn’t as American as apple pie and school shootings?

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    As non-american I’m becoming increasingly convinced republicans are actually lead by traitors wanting to destroy the US.

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      I dont think that’s it.

      It’s an overwhelming case of “got mine”.

      Like sanders said, being a GOP member just means staying in line.

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      Wanting? No. But they see the impending collapse and rip the copper out of the walls.

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        Yeah pretty much, Trump had ties to the Russian mob. Beyond that, they probably poured money into the MAGA movement for God knows how many senators. Putin won. Well played really.

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          putin have pouring into the gop for a long time, and almost all the right wing governments elsewhere, why do you think the sudden rise of right wing govt all at once, plus they also fund alt-right groups like racial supremcy groups. isreal is similar, just by the USA (which is the most right wing western country even before trump)

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            Russia is funding all the right wing politicans and groups but trump is definetly a russian agent without a doubt. you dont get permission to cross the iron curtain willy nilly.

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      So do the Democrats…

      I hope they fix their system, but I have no idea how they could.