I am a bit tired of people only associating and using leftism for identity projects that tend to isolate people and start focusing on the financial side of Leftism that millions of Americans are desperately screaming out for whether they know the terminology or not.
I'll defend all minorities til the end, but the focus on the left should be to raise everyone's boats economically. Do this, and the rest will follow much easier.
Some of the smartest people I know have the absolute dumbest politics. My cousin works at a very well-known lab on nuclear fusion and other stuff I don’t understand.
He has absolutely braindead shitlib politics. And he posts about it on FB in the style of, like, a MSNBC pundit.
When the time comes for the blame to be apportioned regular voters who voted for Trump certainly deserve their share. But I reserve my anger and outright derision for members of so-called elite institutions - the press, academic, political, and judiciary - who completely failed everyone
By failing to do even the minimum of their civic duties and responsibilities or to use their higher levels of education to see and combat this force of absolute evil that was right in front of them.
Wow! I was confused when very few US scientists stood up against the DEI EO and censorship; when private orgs started scrubbing their websites preemptively. I was surprised when so many asked - maybe it's just for DEI - when funding was frozen. Now I know why.
What's irritating to me is that some of these - it's getting too woke - complainers will be offered jobs abroad, escaping the consequences of their choices.
I recall how some publicly funded researchers looked down at those with private partnership as being less "pure" with questionable integrity. So it was revealing that their initial response to the loss of scientific freedom & decimation of public funding is to stick their heads in the sand.
*points and laughs at the MAGA buffoons in the uni system*
Y'all are making the rest of us suffer, so I got no sympathy
Fucking hell, as an engineer I know how important it is to assess all data points and these dingdongs decided their prejudice was more important than the data in front ot them
The "vocal right-wing intellectual NIH funded scientist at top school" pool is so small that I think i can make a pretty good guess as to who he's corresponding with, lol
He was "annoyed" by the idealistic students on his campus so he voted for a deranged, corrupt fascist to get back at them. Sounds like something an overly emotional, impulsive man-child would do.
Speaking as an engineer myself, most of them have shitty politics, and I was halfway there incentive as a young lady with no political awareness whatsoever (and was proud of it).
The problem is they don't believe politics solves problems, they the smart engineers solve problems and we don't need politics (which the right sucks them into their movements).
It boggles my mind that anyone in a research position at a university could possibly support Trump. I get that DEI can sometimes be maddening, but that is one issue out of so many others. Go back and watch Vance's talk "The Universities are the Enemy."
The average American is not aware we are in precipitous decline in EVERYTHING. We are the frog in the pot and the temperature has been rising figuratively and literally since Ronnie Raygun
I’ve worked with hundreds of MDs, PhDs, and MD/PhDs for over 15 years.
People need to realize that the only difference between them and normal people is that they focused on a topic and did a ton of work on that one topic, so in that topic they are experts—but just as idiotic in everything else.
I’ve heard that independent voters despite being less politically informed have actually a more accurate guess on estimating the percentage of the population supports a certain policy than ones who associate with a party or ideology.
An incredibly high number of PhDs I've worked with can't fill out a time card on their own and don't understand marginal tax rates. Very stupid people.
I mean, this is straight up Martin Heidegger supporting the Nazis bullsh!t. “I thought Trump, Vance, and Ruffo were the philosopher kings who could usher into being my ideal university staffed by a scientific meritocracy.” Come on, you saw what they did the last time and DeSantis in FL.
i welcome their corrective votes in 2026 and 2028, but on a personal level i am just filled with such utter loathing against these ostensibly smart people who were warned about this repeatedly and nonetheless voted for this mess because they were annoyed by some lefty language policing
I really, sincerely, want to know what is so 'extremely woke' in academics that caused them to vote for Trump, besides the fact they can't call students the N word.
I'm sorry, I think 99% of what people call 'woke' and 'PC' these days is just basic rules of etiquette and politeness.
So, a prof who was mad that he couldn't try and pressure his female grad students for sex anymore is now sad that the leopards are eating his face. "You were only supposed to shove trans people back in the closet & make women scared for their careers if they crossed me!" he said through the sobs...
The really ludicrous part is, I bet he's not even mad at that. I bet he's mad because he had to go to a half-day training where someone asked him to please think about being thoughtful about people who are not exactly like him. Maybe not even a training. Maybe a 1 hour web-based course.
If you voted for Trump, I have no sympathy for you. Zero. I don’t care if you get fired. I don’t care if you can’t afford your damn eggs. You have been warned the last 9 years. Years!!!!
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Really showing just where their stakes are in it all when being annoyed was their crossing the line
The absurd belief that annoyance and inconvenience is equal to oppression meets FAFO reality.
He has absolutely braindead shitlib politics. And he posts about it on FB in the style of, like, a MSNBC pundit.
Y'all are making the rest of us suffer, so I got no sympathy
Fucking hell, as an engineer I know how important it is to assess all data points and these dingdongs decided their prejudice was more important than the data in front ot them
Maybe part of welcoming them in is pointing out this fundamentally authoritarian instinct they have that they should learn to be more skeptical of.
who seeks a political solution to a cultural gripe.
Fucking autocorrect fucking sucks.
People need to realize that the only difference between them and normal people is that they focused on a topic and did a ton of work on that one topic, so in that topic they are experts—but just as idiotic in everything else.
I'm sorry, I think 99% of what people call 'woke' and 'PC' these days is just basic rules of etiquette and politeness.
80% of Hanania's stuff is AI slop