And still some people think it will be fine in 3.5 years.

Or another way to look at it- cutting nearly 75% of scientists. Can't have climate change if there's no one working! Watch them find some money to give to ExxonMobile to 'study' the impacts of fossil fuels. Wonder what that report will say! /s

Never played a conquest game where you stop researchers from giving your empire a tech advantage over others.

Has an empire ever been so complicit in their own demise?

Speed running towards Idiocracy by 2028

That's only the half of it. Look at the rest of the policies, look how they want to cut Medicare and food stamps and other safety net programs.

Make no mistake, this administration wants to see people die.

This is the end game the technocrats have been working towards, this is how they're enacting their eugenics. They want poor people, disabled people, disadvantaged people, to die. They believe they are culling the weak members of the herd for the sake of the betterment of "their" kind (rich, white, "healthy", etc).

These policies aren't stupid or ineffective, they are cruel and insidious by design

Hey Europe and Canada, anyone still looking for a scientist that just wants to do lab work? I prefer chemistry, but am happy with micro too. Just let me interpret data, please. I'm stuck somewhere where titrations are the most complex process.

If you can get out, now's the time.

If not, now's the time to buy guns and ammo.

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

Deeply unserious managers of empire continue to self-cannibalize their own productivity in an effort to go even more all-in on financial capital, all while the global south is doing its best to pivot towards more favorable relations with countries like China. When the US Empire runs out of countries to exploit, and financial capital ceases to be profitable, it will have no developed industrial base nor a strong scientifically trained worker base to pull itself back up. The US is cooked, this is just speedrunning the demise of the empire in a faster and harder fashion.

The good news is that the worse this gets, the more favorable the conditions for organizing become, and the more vulnerable to revolution the state becomes. We can legitimately take advantage of this, and gain mastery over capital, rather than the inverse. We can re-industrialize, become socialist, and begin the long and difficult but necessary path towards legitimate progress. It won't be easy, but it will be doable.

Brain drain is a difficult downward spiral to break out of once it starts.

As non-american I'm becoming increasingly convinced republicans are actually lead by traitors wanting to destroy the US.

This is a huge opportunity for countries who always played second fiddle in science and tech.

Critical support for Trump's struggle against US cultural and scientific imperialism.

I'd say we had a good run but we really didn't.

The country built on brain drain, assumes it is great without the brain.

I hope the scientist find favorable places that value science.

Welcome to Europe, researchers!

Lots of great choices and don't worry, you can move to France without knowing French or Denmark without knowing Danish!

The times, they are a'changing

Death to IMPERIALISM

Death to CAPITALISM

Death to FASCISM

Death to MAGA

Europe will welcome them with open arms.

People starts to realize that having a higher wage in the US doesn't translate into a better quality of life.

A country for REAL (white Christian male) Americans.

When are you people going to get the message. It was never a country that was about equality. It was about enrichment for a select group of people. When their privilege was threatened, the veil came off.

None of this changes until the rest of America decides enough is enough. That might never happen. If it does, it won't be for years or decades.

The US died on Jan 20th, 2025.

Wait, the bottom ones are PreK-12 students.

How are they planning to reduce the number of children?

Is this why they hired RFK?

Making everywhere else, great again.

anecdotally, I know people finishing their phds that have jobs lined up elsewhere in the world because there are no federal science job openings

the brain drain is real and self-imposed

we'll just get chatgpt to invent new science for us