While the states is busy overtaking Turkmenistan as Worlds Weirdest Dictatorship

US post WW2 boom is over and they squandered it.

The damage is done. Unless there's a sudden reversal of cultural attitudes, the US has given up. The only way I see this happening is if the space race sparks another push for STEM.

Like, actual STEM. It seems like nobody has noticed but all anybody has cared about anymore is watching the stock market go up. It's no longer about the pursuit of science and technology but how that can be used to make money.

They need to land some people on the moon again. Make it a big deal about sci-fi type shit. Orbit space stations around the Earth and the moon. Make it a daily life kind of thing that the population can get engaged with.

It's apparent that people are weary of technology anymore cause all we've had is brain rot designed to extract value from us. People need to see science and technology as something hopeful again.

"Is overtaking?" Sorry buddy, that point lies in the past. China dominates nearly all of the relevant future technologies and is still ramping up its investments. There's no stopping them now.

Maybe because China is not exclusively focusing on Improving AI?

Yes, that little bump the Americans got after the 1940s because of some, er... "immigrants" has long since run out.

Who knew that taking funding for scientific research away from government institutes and universities and giving it to ketamine-addicted con men would have negative consequences.

Already done, bruh. 10 years of Republicans tearing down everything led to this. Not a shocker.

Intelligent people aren't going to stay in a country that doesn't respect intelligence.

They'll take their knowledge elsewhere. It's in high demand in other first world countries.

Sometimes I forget one of Trump's first agendas was nuking research funding and using a keyword filter against grant submissions that had words like "trans" without conntext.

Seems like so long ago compared to an active war with Iran.

It is not just cutting research funding, but also making migrating to the US much much harder. The US has amazing pay for the absolute top researchers, which makes it attractive for even migrants from other developed countries. However life in most other countries is better then one of the new migrant concentration camps the US is building with ICE.

Probably the Anglosphere apart from the US and then other rich developed countries will benefit fro this the most. They all have somewhat working migration systems in place to attract talent. China so far lacks that, but they probably set one up soon.

The people who control capital and the levers of power in the west no longer care about the primacy of the United States in any sense. It was only ever just a mechanism they used to consolidate their power by using our economic system and our military for their own ends (see: “War is a Racket”)

Now they’re pulling up the drawbridge, boarding their super yachts, the escape plans drawn up decades ago. America is left a hollow shell with only the sad remnants of broken promises left behind.

This is part of why I am (slowly) learning Mandarin.

China already did long time ago, and US were already finished before they put Trump on the spot.

All the insanity from 'Trump', was planned by think tanks years before, so ALL lib/dem presidents just played the big think tank game just like Trump, and he is just showing the real face/intents of the US fascist dictatorship. None of them - no matter 'side' cared about causes or people, and all of them played the pre-set game dictated by the US Oligarchs.

Current US behavior are just 'mask off' that shows who is really in charge in the US "Democracy" and what they think of anything else than keeping their property/power.

Let's see them try to keep up with incarceration rates per 100k people. USA is truly a world power in that regard.

Not just in science. In everything.

America is being lapped by a fascist Pooh Bear because 30% of Americans are mouthbreathers with Bible kinks.

It's almost like the slogan should've been Make China Great Again lmao

Supremacy in most if not all fields of endeavor by 2049 is a high goal, only accelerated by American political chaos and regression to traditionalism whereupon global disillusionment leads to realignment towards the Middle Kingdom.