We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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"We'll show all those pointy headed smarty pants who's boss!! We're taking over!"
-- MAGA mouth breathers
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And the NY Times helped. Carrying water for war criminals lost the dems the election. Heck of a job, NY Times.
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the dems are very capable of losing an election on their own
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The paper of record.
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I didn't have this on my bingo card when i was growing up. I was told we were the science superpower and the best country in the world.
Now you realize they were all lies.
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America is likely unique among superpowers, as it is INTENTIONALLY trying to commit suicide. Other empires throughout time died from disaster, neglect, and "fuck that guy", but never quite in this fashion.
America has no reasonable excuse for what it did to itself, and will be a case study for millennia to come.
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It's also speed running with destroying itself. Although the signs had been there for a few decades now, the way it went down with trump was just amazingly fast and interesting in a morbid way
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It would be kinda neat if Summoning Salt did a mockumentary about the Trumpian Speedrun. Maybe in collaboration with BobbyBrocolli.
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Millennia seems wildly optimistic on this trajectory
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Guess we have to recommend kids who want to do real science in their future to learn Chinese or Korean.
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This story is brought to you by the NYT in more ways than one.
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A healthy, well educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
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After years of giving a platform to climate change denialism, transphobic fearmongering, pearl clutching over too much woke at liberal colleges, both-sideing the efficacy of vaccines and indulging in Covid conspiracy nonsense, the NYT has finally achieved its goal.
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I think united states is envious of chairman Mao and wants to have their own cultural revolution too. Already had the military parade that outshone that of President Xi. Now have to outdo him in killing academics and intellectuals.
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I think they view the downsides as temporary pain to achieve an end goal, which is an ethnostate for white people. Their philosophy hasn't been under the table at all, they say societies which benefit only one race (and obviously falsely, one set of beliefs), are better than those which have internal strife. All of this is laughable, since Israel has achieved as close to an ethnostate as we've seen, and yet they're unsustainable.
These people have failed upwards their entire lives, so they all feel confident that in the event of failure, they have the capital to smash and grab before the end using insider information. They're the worst humans on earth.
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Yeah, but we got to own the libs. Are we not "great", again?
Also, outlets like the New York Fucking Times get to pretend to just float above it all, being "objective" in their reporting, because - say it with me - "both sides".
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We definitely are something again. The hate for the mere mention of "progressive" in this country is baffling. Like a toddler that doesn't want to grow up.
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It's especially stupid because we tend to poll progressive on the issues. And yet we keep getting regressive policy.
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"both sides" and the "fairness doctrine" are not the same.
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Yes we will destroy ourselves, but think of all the libs that will be owned!
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Well the country was colonized by religious nutjobs that didn't like the rise of intellectualism and enlightenment in Europe so this is rather more of a return to form.
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That is a gross simplification. We're the first people here great people? Absolutely not! But to boil them down to one zinger is very dishonest, at best. And remind me what was going down in Europe around that time? Oh, the church was murdering people that didn't prescribe to their very specific belief structure, including scholars?
Here's some good key words for you to try searching the next time you're making shit up about that time period.
Hasbergs
Fredrick V
Matthias
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The "first people here" were the natives we massacred
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To be fair the pilgrims were offered sanctuary in other countries first and then got mad that everyone wasn't exactly like them. That said a lot of the other initial colonizers were people being outright evicted from their home countries for non-religious reasons.
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Hasbergs
Habsburgs?
Fredrick V
Who? There were lots of European monarchs of that name and number
Matthias
Who? It's a pretty common name.
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You're right. They were also a bunch of genocidal hypocrites who, "believed all men were created equal" yet enslaved multiple continents while raping their way across it
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Its not in danger or peril, its already dead. China is already the leader.
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All because Russia has a tape of Trump "assaulting minors".
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White People Twitter is your citation? Social media was a mistake.
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I mean, it's probably true. Those tapes almost certainly exist and Putin has means to get them. But also, yeah, almost certain is not a fact. This is one of those cases where citing can only reduce the credibility of a statement by pretending there needs to be something more definitive than, "well, obviously."
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You need a source for Trump being a pedo?
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joyous imaginative freedom.
That's what Americans have had in general for a long time. They think they are free, because they've been indoctrinated to think that, but compared to better democracies, they really aren't.
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Which democracies do you have in mind? For many it could be argued that they are American vassals. That doesn't leave too much freedom for their populations who thus must be indoctrinated even more.
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That claim is just moronic, maybe you are just using words you don't really know what mean. Warsaw pact countries were Soviet vassals, where Russia intervened militarily if they didn't behave or the people demanded democracy.
There has been no American military intervention to make democratic allies behave.
Any NATO country is free to leave, and all western countries have democratically elected governments, and better democracy than USA.
IDK what kind of delusion you are under, but to claim free democracies are vassals of USA is delusional.
Currently many allies are actually politically pulling away from USA now, because USA is unreliable.
More than half of a century of Pax Americana is at an end, but allies that used to allow USA to be the leader is not the same as being a vassal, for instance several European countries did not agree with USA on Iraq, and did not participate in the invasion. Comparing voluntary cooperation by democratically elected governments with being a vassal is so ignorant I'm kind of at a loss for words.
USA has exited many international organizations and agreements, while these are continued by former allied participants, and many former allies are working around USA now to achieve their political goals because USA does not share those goals anymore.It's particularly funny you make this claim now, after it's proven that USA trying to pressure allies into submission clearly isn't working, and has the direct opposite effect.
And finally in other countries there is nothing at all like the American propaganda about being free as by far the most important goal. On the contrary it's much more about general quality of a society for all, which despite freedom not being the main goal, has resulted in greater freedom than USA has, because freedom is recognized as a human right that must be considered in how we regulate!
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We haven't been a scientific super power since the space race. The shuttle program was cool, but we even abandoned that.
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US a scientific power?
Their citizens are dumb as an American. How can they be a scientific superpower?
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Pish posh you and your writey stick. We, the scientists are just as good as sciencing as we ever have been. (More money please)