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Another knowledgeable person leaving due to DOGE, what a surprise. The US is loosing its smartest people due to Trump. Soon we will be a backwater country wi
by jmclnx 2y ago
Another knowledgeable person leaving due to DOGE, what a surprise. The US is loosing its smartest people due to Trump. Soon we will be a backwater country with lots of weapons, nothing else.
- jfengel 2y agoYes, but we'll have stuck it to the woke, and that's what counts.
- danudey 2y agoIsolating the US from the rest of the world economically and politically and plunging the country into an unforced recession while giving trillions of dollars to billionaires and texting state secrets to journalists and relatives to own the libs.
- ttoinou 2y ago“stick it to all the too-tolerent people who let the woke movement gain power” would be a good steel manning of your argument
- stouset 2y agoWhich people in the woke movement had power, and what were some of the woke policies that they enacted? Every time I go down this line, it’s all vague boogeymen or claims of events that don’t hold up to scrutiny.
- StefanBatory 2y agoIt is a dog whistle for "We let gays/trans/atheist people exist."
- ttoinou 2y agoI dont know Im only removing the strawmen of the comment
- jfengel 2y agoIt's not a good steel manning. You haven't explained what "too tolerant" is, or how much power we're talking about. My comment was bitter sarcasm lamenting how much is lost and how little gained, not an argument. And you could call that out. But just flopping the words around doesn't turn it into an argument.
- CoastalCoder 2y ago> Soon we will be a backwater country with lots of weapons, nothing else. Making advanced, superior weapons systems requires a workforce with strong science, engineering, and manufacturing skills. I struggle to understand how the current administration's policies help.
- dullcrisp 2y agoYou can always hope your old stockpile of weapons works while bullying smaller countries with it.
- vjvjvjvjghv 2y agoAuthoritarians often allow for strong science and engineering skills within an approved range. The Nazis had excellent engineering and so did the Soviet Union in some areas.
- danudey 2y agoWe're going to bring manufacturing back! But we're not bringing back the crappy manufacturing jobs that pay absolute peanuts. No, we're going to automate those! With robots that we don't make here in the US, of course. Those robots don't exist, because if they did then China would be using them, but we'll buy some robots from China at 150% tariffs so that we can set up some degree of manufacturing here in the US! We'll create jobs! But good-paying jobs, for well-educated people! The kind that we won't be making anymore once we gut the department of education and saddle everyone with crushing student loan debt that we've just announced we're going to be chasing after again! Because the government isn't willing to let people get away without paying their debts! Unless it's a big bank, or a billionaire. Or the US government itself, for that matter! But the US government is in massive debt, and we can't let student loan payments go unpaid! But we can give a $4.5 trillion tax cut to billionaires who don't need it, that's important. The administration is in this weird limbo of "doesn't know what they're doing" and "is desperately trying to accomplish goals that will clearly and irreparably tank the entire country".
- hengheng 2y agoIf the benefits don't outweigh those minor inconveniences, you're just not rich enough.