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Meanwhile, China has "genius camps" for young people, to skim off the cream of the cream of the crop, so they can go on to do amazing things for their country.
by e40 8mo ago
Meanwhile, China has "genius camps" for young people, to skim off the cream of the cream of the crop, so they can go on to do amazing things for their country. It blows my mind what we've done in the last year, to damage our ability to compete on the world stage.
- jazz9k 8mo ago[flagged]
- daveguy 8mo agoI mean, they're both authoritarian right now. But at least one of them doesn't think science is woke. So....
- juniperus 8mo agoif you actually think China would even entertain the idea of funding some of the scientific research conducted in the US over the past few decades, you have a fantasy view of what is going on outside the US. That political controversy wouldn't even arise because it's such a nonstarter that it could never even become a controversy.
- daveguy 8mo agoPast being the key point. Because, right now it's all Dumpty all the time, until we boot his weak tools and fools November. I'm confident we are stronger than that two bit corrupt fraud, and will get back to where science funding is a priority. Hopefully our state of affairs is much more temporary than what China is subjected to. But there's absolutely no question whether the dunce parade in the US is anti science.
- voxl 8mo agoDon't be an ass. Someone can be an ethically bad person and still do things that you can learn and benefit from. Moreover, saying China is doing good at research does not somehow mean you support their government.
- AuthAuth 8mo agoIts calling for the US to stop copying the bad parts of Chinese Policy and go back to matching the good parts.
- jmcgough 8mo agoThe US government is now more authoritarian than the Chinese government. Half of what you've been told is propaganda, like the "social credit score" story. In China they put people to death for corruption, here they just get a well-paid lobbying job.
- s3r3nity 8mo ago> The US government is now more authoritarian than the Chinese government Nah we’re not playing this game. Try asking the CCP officials in person about Uyghur internment camps, or Tiananmen Square, and see if your family isn’t all arrested. Ask Olympian Alysa Liu how the CCP targeted her father to try to coerce her to skate for China.
- tekno45 8mo agothey shot unarmed protestors in US streets.
- temp8830 8mo agoOh but this game is fun! I see your Uyghurs and raise the Falun Gong. A religious cult that is against pretty much anything liberal, but because they are a thorn in China's side they get US support and are oh-so-persecuted. They even have an anti-Communist acrobatics show called Shen Yun. Yes, that one, the one that spams your mailbox with flyers, and abuses kids.
- hluska 8mo agoI made the mistake of clicking through to your profile. This isn’t even the most nonsensical reply you’ve made today. That’s unfortunate.
- leptons 8mo agoI think the next 3 or so years in the US are going to be a real awakening for you, if the last year hasn't. It's going to become more and more difficult to shove your head deeper into the sand.
- direwolf20 8mo agoDid you miss Trump's plan to censor the internet except for party approved propaganda? It was on the front page here a few days ago. The propaganda site will be called freedom.gov.
- Arainach 8mo agoIt bears repeating: for everyone who insists that the US Executive Branch isn't compromised by our enemies, what different actions would someone who was compromised and trying to speedrun the destruction of American power, influence, and hegemony have taken?
- torstenvl 8mo ago[flagged]
- direwolf20 8mo agoIdk, I think a much more effective way to destroy the US would be to send armed gangs through the streets and have them kidnap people from their houses at random. That would cause far more destruction than merely telling people you were doing that without actually doing it.
- torstenvl 8mo ago[flagged]
- Sparkle-san 8mo agoArresting people solely on the basis of their skin color or having an accent is akin to kidnapping. How many legal residents and citizens are you comfortable with being arrested without a sound legal basis? My number is zero.
- autoexec 8mo agoWhat happened to George Retes was not law enforcement
- Arainach 8mo ago>Law enforcement is not an armed gang It always has been in America. Literally, the history of policing starts with armed gangs looking for escaped slaves, and never went away from those roots. You can see this in their "us or them" combative mentalities, their utter refusal to hold officers accountable even when obviously guilty, their tactics when governments try to impose rules on them, and everything else they do.
- jimbokun 8mo agoIn the US education for talented students is under attack from the left as well as the right (just in different ways).