It does if democracy works.
It’s pointless being the richest country in the world if your democracy does not delivery on curbs on inequality.
DIsney is a great means of promting US ideology all over the world. Just because you have a bug up your arse about woke does not mean that DIsney has improved the reputation of the US worldwide.
Possibley greater than any president and any war for the last 100 years.
You americans are so fucking stupid
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That would be a small help.
This is your delusion.
It’s always been a right wing bias. That is why Americans nealry always vote against their own interests and why they keep voting in Republicans.
You really need to get past Biden. He stepped down to allow the better person to run. But American misogyny and racism blinded voters to see the obvious.
I really pity America
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If Trump was in office instead of Biden there would have never been Russia Ukraine war or Israel Hamas war. You say you’re smart. Doesn’t take a genius to see that.
America’s reputation was already in the shitters globally long before Trump, which I’m sure you are aware. America has always had a reputation of bullying small countries in order to maintain the petrodollar. I guess all 3 of the world’s superpowers (Russia, China and USA) have bad reputations globally. Why do you choose to pick on the USA in particular?
Disney is a great means of promting US ideology all over the world. Just because you have a bug up your arse about woke
It promotes woke DEI over carefully crafted artistry. Technically the USA is indeed about woke DEI crap as well, but I thought your discussion was mainly about the economy. Disney doesn’t employ enough people to make a dent in helping the economy.
People just want to get home after work and consume quality entertainment and not watch unartistic woke crap.
There are other ways to promote “democracy” besides shoving DEI crap into everything. DEI is actually a form of racism because:
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Eventually, if all races are mixed it will actually erase all the races and create a mono race.
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It will erase culture since the goal is to combine all cultures.
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It forces no boundaries. For instance, if a bunch of Hispanics want to live amongst themselves in a Hispanic-only community, DEI says no, you have to live amongst random other races and be woke.
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I personally thought Grid Force Demo would have been better as an all-black game. The main character is black but then they mix random other races in. Probably because some DEI focus group and council of karens asked them to.
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If we ever encounter space aliens we will all have to cohabitate with them too. It could be like some Star Wars Mos Eisley cantina bar.
Show me a science grant and I will show you the corporate or state money behind it. Their entire individual field of research depends on those grants. Scientists can’t be bought? Quite the contrary, there’s no virtuous science for virtue’s sake.
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Scholarship (from Latin stipendium — pay, salary) is a regular (usually monthly) financial allowance for students. Therefore, by receiving a scholarship, Newton sold his conscience for it. He was forced to assert only what did not contradict receiving it.
LOL.
Is that what he told you?
He also told you he would have prices falling by day one, and Russia our of Ukraine even before inauguration.
He said a lot of other things that are billshit, and continues to lie like a broken sewer pipe, pouring his shit into your willing ears.
Yeah Trump agrees with me, but I had that opinion of him before he even said that. He just gives me the general vibe of that.
Its like, since there are wars, then the chances of a war happening under Biden is 100%. Whereas that automatically makes the chances of it happening if Trump had been president instead, to be less than 100%
He said a lot of other things that are billshit, and continues to lie like a broken sewer pipe, pouring his shit into your willing ears.
unlike the demonrat party supporters, i have the ability to question Trump’s policies, for example I am questioning Trump Tariffs right now. When’s the last time you heard a demonrat supporter question their party about anything? Even when Biden is obviously senile they will drink the koolaid and parrot mainstream media and tell you he’s not senile.
It’s funny to ask a “smart” person. If the war in Ukraine started by the order of the Jewish elites in the U.S., then what difference does it make what the clown’s last name is, who supposedly holds power in America? Doesn’t it dawn on you that clowns don’t have real power? Even Trump didn’t know why the war was happening and why the populations of Russia and Ukraine were being destroyed. How is this rooster with chicken brains supposed to understand anything at all?
The war was started by Putin and his desire to expand Russian influence.
Claiming it was some American conspiracy is conjecture at best.
Maybe you need to get the cotton out of your ears?
Everyday. LOL
Trump says it was Zelenskyy.
Alright I got the cotton out of my ears and I’m all ears.
List me all your complaints and grievances about the Demorat party
It is either a stupid thing to say or a 10D chess move to manipulate Putin.
Trump does not know how to play Chess.
Really - he cannot play.
His only game is SNAP, and he has already run out of cards
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Around 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed a letter warning President Donald Trump of the dangers that funding cuts present.
“We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care,” the letter said.
“A climate of fear has descended on the research community,” the scientists said, referring to what the future would look like after funding cuts.
I don’t see anything Trump is doing that will lead to capitalism-free science purely in service of the public good.
Trump is wrecking everything.
Since the US lost most of its heavy undustry and manufacturing it has survived through having the skills of science and design to keep ahead of tech developments. This inventivness has given the US control over those goods that are made cheaply for the US market - which it has enjoyed to maintian its economic power.
Byt directly attacking universities and cutting all funding to science the US is losing what little power it has to stay economic.
Trump is insane.
Here’s another article about cuts to science funding:
The Trump administration is sharpening its attacks on the National Science Foundation, the government agency that is a major funder of basic science, math and engineering, especially at colleges and universities across the United States.
The latest salvo: a preliminary budget request from the White House that would cut $4.7 billion, or more than half the agency’s $9 billion budget.
The proposal landed the same day the NSF said 344 previously approved grants had been terminated as they “were not aligned with agency priorities,” according to an email to NPR. This follows two previous waves of cancellations, in April, that terminated over a thousand awards.
What’s more, the agency now has stopped issuing any new awards and has stopped funding all existing ones, the science journal Naturesays. A spokesperson for the NSF, asked about that reporting, declined to comment.
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Amid all this turmoil, the NSF’s director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, abruptly left last week, saying, “I believe I have done all I can.”
Eliminating so much of this agency’s budget would be “a crisis, just a catastrophe for U.S. science,” says Sudip Parikh, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the largest scientific societies in the world.
He’s optimistic that Congress wouldn’t go along with it, but the budgetary process would likely take months.
Meanwhile, the uncertainty would leave scientists fretting over how to support their labs and the students and early-career researchers who work there.
“That’s created this paralysis that I think is hurting us already,” says Parikh, who says that when he talks to scientists, he’s starting to hear them express an interest in having an “exit plan from these jobs.”
Of course, this article comes from NPR who’s federal funding Trump also wants to cut. Trump is doing more damage to science than any terrorist has in modern history.
And the world has noticed:
From the New York Times: Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, announced an investment of 500 million euros, or $566 million, at the conference to “make Europe a magnet for researchers” over the next two years.
Although that amount is not much compared to the billions in cuts American universities face, it comes on top of the $105 billion international research program called Horizon Europe that supports scientific breakthroughs, like genome sequencing and mRNA vaccines, Ms. Von der Leyen said.
She did not mention the United States by name, but she described a global environment where “fundamental, free and open research is questioned.”
“What a gigantic miscalculation!” she said.
How many scientists and researchers have been laid off as a result of DOGE?
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It’s difficult to pinpoint an exact number of scientists and researchers laid off by DOGE (Department of Executive Office) this year due to the widespread nature of the layoffs. However, it’s clear that the federal government, including agencies like the CDC and the NSF, experienced significant workforce reductions. For example, the CDC’s science and research divisions saw layoffs of roughly 25%, and the NSF’s workforce was reduced by about 10% according to NPR.
Here’s a more detailed look at the situation:
- CDC:
The CDC’s workforce, particularly in science and research areas, experienced a significant reduction, with some estimates suggesting a 25% decrease across various departments, including those focused on tracking outbreaks and domestic violence prevention.
- NSF:
The National Science Foundation also saw a significant layoff, with roughly 10% of its workforce being let go.
- Department of Veterans Affairs:
The Department of Veterans Affairs dismissed more than 1,000 employees, including researchers in areas like cancer treatment, opioid addiction, and prosthetics, according to Sen. Patty Murray.
- Other agencies:
Layoffs affected a wide range of agencies, including those focused on agriculture, housing, international development, and parks.
- Total impact:
The federal government’s layoffs led to a significant reduction in the workforce, affecting experts in government agencies, researchers, and other public service employees.
The overall impact of these layoffs is concerning, as they could potentially disrupt critical research efforts and jeopardize public services that rely on federal funding.
In a world where US power is maintained by being at the apogee of science, design and innovation, whilst getting the rest of the world to make all the stuff, what Trump has done here is to cut the legs off the progress and the specialness of the USA.
If these changes are not reversed soon ,and Trump is removed or shot, then the USA is destined to join the ranks of the other Banana republics of the AMerican continent.