There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists ....
First they eliminate words.
Then they eliminate people.
First they eliminate words.
Then they eliminate people.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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USAID officials quickly changed the title of the project and removed all reference to climate; it worked and the project continued.
It would never have survived Trump 2.0.
Trump
Musk
Miller
Bannon
Patel
Hegseth
Feel free to add.
File em all in a Fed prison until trial.
You give out unlimited power to most lunatic ruthless creatures first. When they change country into hell of a lunar landscape, one can simply put them down as perpetrators and "bring new normalcy".
It is going to get brutally horrifically violent and very soon!
They are so ignorant. At least the USSR had the good sense to leave mathematics alone.
You can't be what you can't say
You can't be ...
Reducing vocabulary to restrict individual ability for critical thinking
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spear_(painting)
If this is happening to the NSF, then we can be pretty sure it's also happening in other key areas as well, right?
We don't know what happened after that."