We very much understand and value that position. The people running the country right now just really want to destroy that position because they, rather moronically, believe that in order to make America great again they need to make the economy and population like that of the 1950s.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Their only goal is to destroy democracy — the only legitimate threat to the oligarchs wealth and power — and implement a fascist dictatorship where the corporate oligarchy rule AmericaCorp with an iron fist.

Any other virtue signaling they do is nothing more than a distraction. They've been working towards this goal since the 70's.

Once they succeed in America they'll expand their 4th reich globally; they've been laying the groundwork for that for decades as well.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure at this point, Trump himself just wants to burn it all down as vengeance for making him kill Epstein to hide their wrongdoings. The rest of them are dominionist Christian fascists who want to being about the rapture, slowly empowered over the past decades by the hubris of the espionage state who thought they could leverage yet control them.

And they call the liberals morons

[–] Hazy@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not even convinced he's dead tbh

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

LOL

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All of our research money goes to DARPA

[–] duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really. DARPA is only getting $4.9B of the US's $181.4B research budget this year. For comparison, the NIH is getting nearly 10x what DARPA is getting.

A lot of people have a very weird understanding of what DARPA does.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

DARPA also gets funding from other, more indirect routes as well though. Most black budget projects go there or split between them and Lockheed, bell, etc. You're just looking at the finance spread sheets, which are known to be completely fucked.

Also I wasn't being entirely serious, but it's not just DARPA either. For instance biological research going into designing new biological/viral and chemical weapons. The point was more that we spend very little taxpayer money to do things that benefit humanity.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

It’s way worse than that

Let me rephrase that: It's even better than that