Every part of this is senseless and destructive.

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I actually had a college econ prof who had escaped severe punishment in China after telling a friend he thought Mao's wife could be a better communist.

The experiences he shared with us (when asked to by students) were invaluable. Not the least of which was the value of the 1st A...
This is just heartbreaking.
His openness about feeling betrayed by the Chinese government then building a good life here really made me feel proud of the US.

I wish the people creating these policies, laws, etc, could understand that.
Wankered bigots.
What's happened to New College is heartbreaking and senseless. Relentless attacks on intellectualism and achievement tell more about the perpetrator than the victim.
If allowed to stand, the EOs & flats issued by Dumpy orange yahoo will lose US what edge we presently have and drain our brain bank. With everything to lose & nothing to gain except short term ego tripping for the felon in chief & elite minions
I hope another uni hires him quickly. Or another actual democratic country.
I can’t even count the number of ways that this is going to hurt the country. No one will come here for a scientific conference, naturalized citizens are afraid to travel and tourism is permanently damaged.
There are hotels in Maine that are afraid they’ll have to close because most of their annual business is Canadian and everyone is canceling.
The word pitiful comes to mind. Regressive and backward. Pitiful.
No doubt people around the world are learning a lot about the USA and Americans. Learnings Americans will still be regretting long after the Mango Mussolini is pushing up daisies.
Meathead Ron leads Florida to champion Idiocracy around the world. They're consistently senseless.
…happens because reason left… reason left churches… left finance… left justice… reason left with the reasonable people that “got sick” of the arguments and petty feuds… reason left the stories we tell… replaced by shitty blockbuster action and fantasy… left the conversation in press and schools…
I kinda think that senseless destruction of America is the point.

Whom does Trump’s policies benefit, other than Putin?
It should be said, if this law existed in the 1930s Germany would have had the atomic bomb first and would have won the war. It’s an incredibly short sighted law that is based purely in racism and isolationism. The USA is becoming a pariah state.
I understand your point, but it's unlikely Germany would get to the atomic bomb. Hitler was not interested for his own reasons. In the middle of Europe, Germany was too exposed to air raids that would target & destroy critical infrastructures impossible to conceal.
Maybe the US wouldn't get to the atomic bomb by the end of the war, maybe the USSR would, it's difficult to tell. Other grim scenarios for the US would be possible, though.
Other than making the bomb, the Manhattan Project showed what challenges could be overcome by putting together high-skilled scientists from diverse backgrounds around the world, and started a tradition of exchanges, grants, and study visas that led it to become the main innovation hub in the world.
The US have been leading in research, development, and innovation *thanks to diversity*, because they were so open to visitors from all around the world. And since research is linked to economic wealth, in the long run, tight closure will lead to stagnation and recession.
Germany’s atomic weapons programme had a lot more problems than just everyone that could leaving the country, there were a lot more countries fighting Germany than just the USA, and the Bomb didn’t do anything that conventional weapons couldn’t and required airspace control that Germany didn’t have
I was thinking more about a certain individual. Einstein. But with the talk from the USA right now I don’t think it would just be the engineers. Imagine a world where the USA decided to only fight Japan and left Europe under German occupation.
I may have read a lot of Harry Turtledove as a kid…
@hntdove.bsky.social Harry's here on Bsky, BTW :-)
Well, I have to call that a childhood well-spent, or I’d be calling myself a hypocrite :)
Einstein was always going to flee at least as far as the UK, and the USA didn’t make any decisions about who to fight in our timeline; Germany declared war on them to show solidarity with Japan
Hateful laws, racist actions, regressive state.
Coming here was an illusion, wasn't it? People crave false power too much is the real revelation, indeed.
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You’ve described the hostile takeover of our wonderful New College perfectly. It is quite analogous with trump’s attempt to usurp Greenland.
Ridiculous! I’m so sick of this administration
One major factor in the installation of the Berlin Wall was the massive brain drain from the DDR. This cannot end well.
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