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[–] 79 points 2 months ago (5 children)

America is willfully surrendering its position because it’s run by traitors who are being controlled by hostile adversaries using pedophile kompromat.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Literal anti-science Nazis.

    Nazis. Anti-science. WTF.

    Even the Nazis have gone downhill in the US. Full throttle collapse.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Nazis were anti science, a lot of the 'advances' attributed to them were results of spending on military and weapons, I.e. intensive funding the remaining scientist that were forced to develop weapons instead of productive/helpful technology. The only sciences they supported were those applicable to military, and even then either disregarded/demonized knowledge from non-facist sources or stole it from those same demonized scientists. People love to crow about operation Paperclip, but forget that most were employed by Nazis under duress.

    The first book burnings were of LGBT and sexuality research. Followed by humanities, Jewish authors, 'efeminite' disciplines, and then any that countered the party ideology.

    Wait, where have I seen this as well? . . .

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Everyone seems to forget the Nazis first targeted and locked up gays/trans, intellectuals, disabled people (they straight up euthanized these people), and socialists in concentration camps before the Jews.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Because everytime you remind them they tell you to STFU. The truth is that if it stopped at gay people, trans people, and the disabled, they'd get away with it every time.

    I mean, the allies liberated the camps and then sent the queer people back in to die. There is a reason they never talk about it starting with the gay, trans, and disabled people. It's because in their eyes, it didn't.

    To them, there was a perfectly "sane and agreeable genocide", but then it "went off the rails" and started including "real people".

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago

    Can't have been too difficult, since America effectively stopped dead in its tracks.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago

    Not surprising. The US is undergoing self-sabotage on an unprecedented scale.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    Yeah it really helps your odds of winning a race when the opposing jockey gets off of his horse and shoots it in the leg.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Most of the highest funded research universities in the world are in China. The Chinese are outspending their Western counterparts and it shows.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Oh good, now the rest of countries can steal China tech while they cry about it. The circle of industrial espionage!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Thats what happens when you push out all your scientists and sit on your aged laurels.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    If your government is anti scientific…….

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I’m sure just about every country will with the trajectory of Americans trying to destroy themselves

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Only because the US pulled out a Trump-shaped gun in the middle of the race and shot itself in both kneecaps.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Science is woke.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    been seeing a lot of futurism astroturfing recently.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    What makes you believe it's astroturfing? What are the grass roots movements you feel it is trying to fake?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    fake outrage to incite online political discourse.

    who's doing it?

    futurism has routinely supported silicon valley hedgefund crypto AI bros. I trust they post editorialized events that benefit the upper class and keeps the lower class angry and pointing fingers at each other.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The US should encourage Chinese students to come to the US to study. Not only would the US benefit from their tuition, but many might stay after they complete their studies.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    eyup. just part of the do the opposite of what we say for the make america great again party.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Feel like I've been hearing this for 20 years now.

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