• RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    18 hours ago

    Given how they also are making it harder for foreign intelligentsia to make their way to the States (despite the brief soyrage months back over Trump supposedly “importing” educated Indian workers en masse), I’m curious where the American Right thinks their country’s scientific base comes from. Trump is no less vocal than Biden about supposedly wanting to retake America’s unquestioned global dominance but whereas Biden’s policies at least salved the US’s decline, Trump’s policies are accelerating it.

    Of course, it’s more likely that the bourgeoisie in general see the writing in the wall for America’s place in the world and are simply strip-mining the place for all its worth. Dems simply think it should be a more calm, measured operation while Reps want to be frantic about it while doubling down on immigration and culture war issues.

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I’m curious where the American Right thinks their country’s scientific base comes from

      Honestly these fuckers are so high on their own supply of culture wars, part of me thinks most of them genuinely believe all science has been infiltrated by “woke” or whatever. I don’t think they’ve thought it through.

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      I’m curious where the American Right thinks their country’s scientific base comes from.

      The American Right only cares about science, to the extent that they have identified them as an enemy in their culture war, that has to be destroyed.

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        Most of these people believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, the dinosaurs were killed when God flooded the earth, and evolution is made up. They don’t want scientific research happening at all.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I’m curious where the American Right thinks their country’s scientific base comes from.

      It feels to me like it’s going all in on ai, so hopefully they work out the kinks in grok so when it’s asked for a cure for cancer it doesn’t spit out a diatribe on censorship in video games.

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        15 hours ago

        i think so too, or at least that’s what their silicon valley libertarian faction has told them

        and they are also just grifting and know it’s all going down, except for a few true believers

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          The scariest part for me is I just flat out don’t know how much of it all is grifters and how much is true believers. They honestly seem to be going all in on this in a way that only makes sense if the majority of them are true believers.