i'll just add that completely gutting our science, technology and medical research and trying to destroy our universities is a very weird way to counter chinese aggression and influence
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Virtually none of their campaign claims were real. They want one thing: a feudal society in which they are the landed gentry, and all others are desperate peasants, forced to do their bidding.
I'm sure they have PLENTY of ideas regarding how to take advantage of that power vacuum. I bet they've been scenario planning exactly what's happening since 2015.
stupid ass demon cracker president and his preening jackalopes destroying the foundation of american global hegemony because their kids won’t talk to them any more
This strategy functioned EXCELLENTLY during COVID, as evidenced by the fact that my first shot down here in Argentina was Sinopharm, clearly reflecting America's superior Operation Warp—
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Which has the small problem of private enterprise having no appetite whatsoever for funding fundamental research. Monetizing the results? Sure. Spending decades on discovering the principles? Not so much.
My Chinese mother-in-law got the COVID vaccine when she visited the US two years ago. She and her friends were so impressed that she could get the American vaccine, which they all perceived as being vastly superior to the Sinopharm one. Just in terms of America's reputation, Trump is a disaster.
Ross would sell his own children into slavery if it allowed him to take symbolic revenge on the confident woman in college who offered to have sex with him and disgusted him enough he wrote about her in his first book in identifying detail.
Oh geez. 3 strikes in Ross's world apparently. Because I guess what really would have turned him on is if she'd said "let us now procreate, impregnate me and spread your bloodline"
media pundits making excuses and pretending there is a benefit to the US from anything they are doing is nuts. just plain nuts. not at this point.
there may be a benefit to his cronies and his puppet masters, but none for us. what does he get from the chaos besides all our confidential information?
US Universities are massive engines of democracy where oligarch tax dollars are turned into research the oligarchs don’t own, so naturally they hate them. And Kamala won the college educated vote so there’s that.
Exactly. And debilitating our soft power through the destruction of USAID is another example of Trump actually not caring at all about the expansion of Chinese influence in the world.
Question for the room, are we going to combat the expansion of China's influence the Douthat mentioned on our lonesome since we told most of Europe to piss off?
As much as I have problems with the PRC (in laws are from Taiwan) this administration's actions have made me neutral to positive over China surpassing America, and I never ever thought I'd say that. I doubt I'm alone in my generation
AI is just repackaged and rebranded statistics. Elon and company are valorizing AI at the expense of foundational science and math on which it depends.
Douthat wrote in his column (and a book) about using a magical radio healing box so discredited that an entire novel in the 1950s by Muriel Spark ridiculed it.
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There are *a lot* of international people, and many of them came from China!
there may be a benefit to his cronies and his puppet masters, but none for us. what does he get from the chaos besides all our confidential information?
As much as I have problems with the PRC (in laws are from Taiwan) this administration's actions have made me neutral to positive over China surpassing America, and I never ever thought I'd say that. I doubt I'm alone in my generation
Truth, critical thought, curiosity, and the ability to research and separate fact from fiction is a threat to the current regime.