And still some people think it will be fine in 3.5 years.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
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Oh my god it’s only been half a year D:
5 months, he was inaugurated January 20th
Fuuuuck this is depressing
It absolutely won't be.
But it might be moving in the right direction.
Regardless, will take decades/generations to fully recover from this, if ever.
No, you'll never recover. Your previous status was the result of a very specific set of historical circumstances (specifically the fact that you were the only major power left standing after World War 2) that aren't going to repeat. If you fall, the best you can hope for in terms of recovery is to equal the other developed countries of the world. You'll never exceed them again.
Unfortunately Americans cannot stand being told they don't live in the greatest country on earth. It's a wonder that fascism took this long to win in the US, because it's fundamentally hyper-compatible with American Exceptionalism which every American besides a tiny fraction of far-leftists believe to be inherently and unshakably true.
Where do you go from there when most of your population wouldn't accept a trade alliance that doesn't massively favor the US? Because even if Trump is impeached tomorrow that's what Fox News will be running all day every day to successfully torpedo anyone attempting to rebuild the country.
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Or another way to look at it- cutting nearly 75% of scientists. Can't have climate change if there's no one working! Watch them find some money to give to ExxonMobile to 'study' the impacts of fossil fuels. Wonder what that report will say! /s
No need for the /s I fully expect that is what will happen. Also a great firewall, so yanks can't access unapproved information from over seas
That's only the half of it. Look at the rest of the policies, look how they want to cut Medicare and food stamps and other safety net programs.
Make no mistake, this administration wants to see people die.
This is the end game the technocrats have been working towards, this is how they're enacting their eugenics. They want poor people, disabled people, disadvantaged people, to die. They believe they are culling the weak members of the herd for the sake of the betterment of "their" kind (rich, white, "healthy", etc).
These policies aren't stupid or ineffective, they are cruel and insidious by design
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Never played a conquest game where you stop researchers from giving your empire a tech advantage over others.
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A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Has an empire ever been so complicit in their own demise?
Maybe theocracies like Afghanistan. Even North Korea likes scientists.
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As non-american I'm becoming increasingly convinced republicans are actually lead by traitors wanting to destroy the US.
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Speed running towards Idiocracy by 2028
no need to rush it, were already here.
who am I kidding, President Camacho would be way better than Trump and most DNC candidates.
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Hey Europe and Canada, anyone still looking for a scientist that just wants to do lab work? I prefer chemistry, but am happy with micro too. Just let me interpret data, please. I'm stuck somewhere where titrations are the most complex process.
German universities are always hiring. Always. And in my experience they need just about everyone
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Wait, the bottom ones are PreK-12 students.
How are they planning to reduce the number of children?
Is this why they hired RFK?
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Brain drain is a difficult downward spiral to break out of once it starts.
This is something I think a lot of people don’t realize; It’s a cascading failure. It’s not just that some competent people will leave the country. The rest of their teams will have to bear the extra burden and be demoralized. They will then feel compelled to leave as well.
It’s happened numerous times in both the public and private sectors. Now they’re deliberately trying to do this shit on a national scale. If we ever recover from this, it’s going to take decades…
If you can get out, now's the time.
If not, now's the time to buy guns and ammo.
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A country for REAL (white Christian male) Americans.
When are you people going to get the message. It was never a country that was about equality. It was about enrichment for a select group of people. When their privilege was threatened, the veil came off.
None of this changes until the rest of America decides enough is enough. That might never happen. If it does, it won't be for years or decades.
The US died on Jan 20th, 2025.
This is a huge opportunity for countries who always played second fiddle in science and tech.
Europe will welcome them with open arms.
People starts to realize that having a higher wage in the US doesn't translate into a better quality of life.
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The times, they are a'changing
Death to IMPERIALISM
Death to CAPITALISM
Death to FASCISM
Death to MAGA
The country built on brain drain, assumes it is great without the brain.
I hope the scientist find favorable places that value science.
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I've figured this out. If MAGA gets rid of all the smart people, they won't seem as dumb anymore!
This reminds me of a particularly hilarious scene from The Death of Stalin where they have all the country's best doctors lined up to save Stalin after his heart attack, but they are all bumbling idiots and Stalins men get angry about how incompetent they are until someone reminds them that Stalin literally killed all the best and most capable doctors in the soviet union out of paranoia.
And so, Stalin dies.
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Welcome to Europe, researchers!
Lots of great choices and don't worry, you can move to France without knowing French or Denmark without knowing Danish!
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Making everywhere else, great again.
Huge news for the WW3 odds. ✍️
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