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I’m cool with that. We could start by defunding public universities who refuse to fire professors pushing their political views on young, vulnerable students.

vkou 4y ago
Sure, we can get started on that right after we're done with defunding and firing politicians who push their scientific views on young, old, and uneducated people. Or is that not what you mean when you say that you want science to be disentangled from politics..? It's weird the same politicians that get their boxers in a twist over scientists doing politics have no qualms about professing all sorts of ignorant and insane opinions on medicine, climate modeling, toxicology, engineering, neurology...
- bequanna 4y ago
  Cool with that too. Let’s start with the politicians who use the excuse “we’re just following the science” to seize power and hold it as long as possible.
  - vkou 4y ago
    I will point out, for the record, that over the past two years, the overwhelming majority of emergency orders surrounding COVID have all expired or been rescinded, or have been watered down into nothingburgers (If they weren't to begin with). Yet, we still have, had, and will continue to have half of congress full of, say, climate change deniers. Do you have a planned plan and timeline for when, and how they can be defunded and fired? Since we've largely solved the problem you've brought up, it's fair to ask when we are going to get to the other half of the equation. These guys have been running the show for decades, by now, with no signs of change. You do want us to get to the other half of the equation, right? If not, you could have just said up front that you want your political enemies destroyed, and we could have cut the conversation off five posts ago.
    - yucky 4y ago
      the overwhelming majority of emergency orders surrounding COVID have all expired or been rescinded, or have been watered down Too late for the countless people forced to give up bodily autonomy in order to stay employed, and for the ones who were brave enough to tell the fascists to kick rocks knowing it would cost them their jobs.

vkou 4y ago

Sure, we can get started on that right after we're done with defunding and firing politicians who push their scientific views on young, old, and uneducated people. Or is that not what you mean when you say that you want science to be disentangled from politics..? It's weird the same politicians that get their boxers in a twist over scientists doing politics have no qualms about professing all sorts of ignorant and insane opinions on medicine, climate modeling, toxicology, engineering, neurology...

bequanna 4y ago
Cool with that too. Let’s start with the politicians who use the excuse “we’re just following the science” to seize power and hold it as long as possible.
- vkou 4y ago
  I will point out, for the record, that over the past two years, the overwhelming majority of emergency orders surrounding COVID have all expired or been rescinded, or have been watered down into nothingburgers (If they weren't to begin with). Yet, we still have, had, and will continue to have half of congress full of, say, climate change deniers. Do you have a planned plan and timeline for when, and how they can be defunded and fired? Since we've largely solved the problem you've brought up, it's fair to ask when we are going to get to the other half of the equation. These guys have been running the show for decades, by now, with no signs of change. You do want us to get to the other half of the equation, right? If not, you could have just said up front that you want your political enemies destroyed, and we could have cut the conversation off five posts ago.
  - yucky 4y ago
    the overwhelming majority of emergency orders surrounding COVID have all expired or been rescinded, or have been watered down Too late for the countless people forced to give up bodily autonomy in order to stay employed, and for the ones who were brave enough to tell the fascists to kick rocks knowing it would cost them their jobs.