Cross-posted from “Seth Rogen’s Trump Jokes Are Edited Out of Awards Broadcast | Mr. Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science.”” by @[email protected] in [email protected]
Tech oligarchs (Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki) create a science prize, fund the inauguration of an anti-science president who appoints a fellow tech bro to gut govt funding of science, and then cut the part where someone points out the irony… “for time reasons”… from a YouTube video.
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin all in attendance.
During Trump 1.0, I kidded around about a fascist takeover because it didn’t seem like a realistic prospect. But Trump 2.0 is a whole different ball game, in no small part due to the amount of people willing to kiss the ring.