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by sympil 2y ago
The top .1% fund very little research. Therefore it is much more efficient for society in the form of government to fund research. We should not rely on the benevolence of a few rich assholes to have research programs.
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by sympil 2y ago
I’d like people to sneer and get angry over the fact that he does have the money. In Les Miserables when the rich man gave the begger a penny the bishop says, “Look at monsieur buying a penny’s worth of paradise.”
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by sympil 2y ago
Don't punish people for trying. No one should have the wealth he does. We sneer that people look up to him for spending a small part of his wealth to benefit others when he should not have enough money to fund $500 million science p
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by sympil 2y ago
A lot of people are going to sneer at this because they like seeing rich tech people fail, but I think it’s great that he’s trying something. It is much more efficient for society in the form of its government to fund research. We should
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by sympil 2y ago
The only audits that have failed have to do with national defense budgets. athis is the one area of government that Republicans hate to cut.
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by sympil 2y ago
That is not all want the video is about.
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by sympil 2y ago
Was it accurate or not? Who cares if the presentstion was to your liking? The question is whether or not its claims are accurate. You sound like the Feynman Bros she talks about.
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by sympil 2y ago
I found this to be illuminating: https://youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc?si=O0qabLdBkmWq3jVX
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by sympil 2y ago
I think it far more likely that he wants NASA to contract out building a new space station.
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by sympil 2y ago
> They are unelected, So are 2.5 million other employees and advisors in government. The 2.5 million you speak of operate within agencies whose mandates have been given by Congress and their actions are subject to judicial reciew. The
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by sympil 2y ago
the President gets to pick the AG and the AG reports to the President. With the Senate’s approval. You dont understand how the interplay between the branches work. Executive power is derived from the President. No!
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by sympil 2y ago
Say something like "hey, no, that law is unconstititional!". What is the purpose of having cabinet secretaries swear an oath to defend the Constitution if the President has the sole authority to decide what this means? Why do yo
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by sympil 2y ago
Where do people think the agency derives 100% of it's power from? The President! You clearly do not understand how the American system of governance is supposed to work. Every department has enabling legislation. Below is a link to
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by sympil 2y ago
It is the foundation of a nation's success. This may have been true in 1700 but not in 2025. We live in a global economy where countries and companies have taken advantage of comparative advantages. Juche does not work for North Ko
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by sympil 2y ago
As I said, in American English I’ve never heard the term treason used for anything other than bettayal of one’s own country. You appear obsessed with this. Your usage of treason appears to be correct but to me it sounds weird. I’m a nati
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by sympil 2y ago
… well engineered product.. The cybertruck is not well engineered. Maybe their other cars are but not the cybertruck. Why is everything so political… I have no obligation to buy a product that enriches a person as shitty as Elon Musk.
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by sympil 2y ago
… doing the things they agreed to why.. through their own actions how they view their commitment to NATO… Their soldiers shed blood during our very long occupation in Afghanistan as part of their treaty obligations. They have been neglig
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by sympil 2y ago
I was using the legal definition of the term as it pertains to U.S. law. It is a betrayal for sure. In American English I’ve never heard someone use the term to refer to anything other than a betrayal of one’s own country.
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by sympil 2y ago
I dont understand the downvotes. Treason is the wrong word though but this is a nitpick. The U.S. has betrayed NATO and it is the end of NATO. The Pax Americana is over.
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by sympil 2y ago
My memory is that when he ran for President in 2008 he and the Demicratic Party made it clear there would be no federal push for gay marriage/civil unions. According to the article he publicly held a variety of positions on the topic o
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by sympil 2y ago
Civil unions/gay marriage were essentially the same thing in the oppositon’s talking points. Slippery slopes and all that. Gay marriage was an issue that hurt him badly. Evidence for this is Obama being ok with gay marriage while ru
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by sympil 2y ago
None of these corrections materially change the point made.
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by sympil 2y ago
So my comment then wasn’t directed to you. It was directed to those with more extreme views on what DEI means and to those reading. Apologies for casting too wide a net.
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by sympil 2y ago
“Enjoyed” is not the right word either. For the last 500 years white men have had preferential treatment when it came to hiring. Indeed a stronger word than “enjoyed” is merited. But you think using “enjoyed” is too strong a word to use
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by sympil 2y ago
It’s easy to demonize DEI for the reasons I stated above. It’s because I don’t follow the news media that I haven’t fallen for the DEI Scare that has gripped white society. It’s modern America’s version of blaming everything on communism.
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by sympil 2y ago
So. He parroted the points made by Vance. That he is European does not dispel the idea that this is imperial arrogance.
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by sympil 2y ago
White men in the U.S. have a hard time coming to grips with living in a society where women have sexual autonomy and where they are subjected to genuine competition for jobs. Every POC hire over a white man must be becuase of DEI!
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by sympil 2y ago
… yet the European mind desperately wants to believe it has the same kind of free speech as the US, despite endless evidence to the contrary. Imperial arrogance. All societies regulate speech. The U.S. regulates speech. We do so in a w
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by sympil 2y ago
DEI is not about preferential hiring. It’s the opposite. It’s about broadening the perspectives so that one group that has enjoyed historical preferential hiring no longer gets preferential treatment.
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by sympil 2y ago
Being a DEI hire does not make the hire discriminatory. I think you don’t understand the issue. I gather you assume any person of color or female hire is a “DEI” hire and by that you mean someone who isn’t qualified. This assumption is qu

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