The fact that federal investment in the sciences is functionally a huge handout to Trump's tech billionaire buddies pales in comparison to the emotional significance of the fact that Trump thinks that smart people don't like him.
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jamelle
of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states
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Sadly, there are plenty of highly educated, intelligent folks who are all in for the racism and sexism. They're not stupid. Just evil.
FIFY.
I think there is for some things. But there’s not enough interest or capacity to replace public science.
https://archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/r2-d2-and-other-lessons-from-bell-labs/
We sometimes did things for gov’t that were pretty far from communications business, like:
-Managing Sandia Labs (nuclear weapons) for decades, via Truman ask.
-Building Safeguard anti-ballistic missile control systems.
He *knows* smart people don’t like him.
Trump, Thiel and Zuckerberg are all very much peas in this pod to the point of cartoonishness