That's the thing that surprises me the most about this. Until recently, the U.S. has always been really good at maintaining the brain drain of other countries. This really seems to fly in the face of that.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

regressives are not known for being intelligent

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Their whole platform is basically anti-intellectualism

[–] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 2 points 6 days ago

It makes sense if you own a huge company that's on top of all competitors, and you don't want any new competition.

It's very short term economic thinking.