🧪What did Felon 47 accomplish 100 days? Tanked the stock market. Displayed economic illiteracy. Crippled academic institutions and life saving science research. Went after the NIH, DEI, academic journals. Hired incompetent loyalists. Spread propaganda. We have a destructive fascist government.
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Organizations which folded to Trump and closed down DEI activity actually wanted to do this anyway.
Senior management didn't really get it. It was box-ticking and appeasement. It made them look 'friendly'.
Most of all, they saw it as just waste and distraction.
Also, this NYT article reports that the Chinese are seeing some parallels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/business/china-donald-trump-cultural-revolution.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/business/china-donald-trump-cultural-revolution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DE8.gPiw.BJXb_vJMU7RD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/national-science-foundation-cancels-research-grants-related-to-misinformation-and-disinformation/
With the rise of AI, we need this more than ever.
History taught us that the freedom to pursue, debate, and publish scientific ideas is not just an academic concern; it is also a matter of life and death.
https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacbts.2025.02.003
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00814-1/fulltext?rss=yes
https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/AnnalsATS.202503-366IP
He is referring to DOGE.
1. The ascendant Nazi movement seized on Einstein’s rising fame and the immense success of his theory of relativity, dismissing it as “Jewish physics.” The Nazis orchestrated conferences and book burnings to discredit Einstein and his work.
Adding: this is the context of that quote by Einstein. He was aware of the propaganda against him.