Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.
  • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
    39·
    2 days ago

    Stifling the future with a stop to all grants, food prices going fucking bananas, TikTok historians rampaging across social media spreading the most ridiculous propaganda, bird flu devastating animal stocks, natural disasters rendering whole number percentages of the world unusable, mass deportations, acquiescence to tyrants. Yup, this is the year.

    • floofloofOPEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      There will be another pandemic, and the USA will have banned investment in science and vaccines. This government is putting Americans (and the rest of the world) in an extremely hazardous and vulnerable position.

      • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        2 days ago

        China’s never done anything wrong, Palestine is faultless and the Middle East can be solved easily by trump (I know more than you’ll write out in reply to my oversimplification of propaganda), random snippets siding with the confederacy for some reason. Reddit and Facebook are going wild.

        • Dale@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I’ve been on TikTok (still am) and that has not been the sentiment I’ve seen. Certainly not all at once. Though TikTok post-ban is fuckin wild right now. Force you to follow Trump, mysteriously unfollowing AOC and other left wing influencers.

          Reddit, google, meta, apple, all of them are owned by maga tech bros. Even TikTok now. You should not be surprised that you are seeing propaganda right now and I’m not talking about TikTok refugees.

          • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 days ago

            I assumed it was TikTok based on their post histories. Do you believe they’re bots approximating the appearance of users with a history of using TikTok?

            Also, what’s this about TikTok’s ownership?

            • Dale@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              I couldn’t say. Just that that discourse doesn’t track with my experience on TT.

              Ownership hasn’t changed on TikTok, but they made a very obvious maga prop announcement when TikTok came back online thanking Trump. Even though the app is still banned. The Singaporean CEO also attended trumps inauguration right alongside the CEOs for google, Amazon, meta, and twitter. Then there’s the algorithm changes. We lost TikTok to the maga movement without them even having to sell.

              • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                2 days ago

                All I can really affirm, then, is something’s fishy in the state of Denmark.

                How’s TikTok responded to the changes? Generally nonplussed or negatively?

                • Dale@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  To be honest with you I haven’t seen anything on TikTok lately except for people realizing that the app has changed and the information is filtered. Supposedly there’s global anti maga protests going on? And we are not seeing it in the states. Nothing meaningful anyway.

  • corsicanguppyEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    I worry we’re going to have a great opportunity to learn about keeping research at arm’s-length from politics but instead will decide it needs corporate control to replace ‘too much’ gov control and public governance.

    • capital_sniff@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      This has been the Republican game since Reagan. Massive transfers of wealth from the public to the private. Then the little GOP voters scamper around and wonder why stuff is falling apart.

    • floofloofOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      It’s mind-bogglingly stupid. At what point do the people who know better revolt against the fascists?