Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:31PM
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At this point it's a question of whether the fundie extremists take out the broligarchs first, or vice versa.
You can't run a modern economy by being anti-science and anti-education. Believing otherwise is a self-harming absurdity.
There will absolutely be a brain drain, and the EU is already thinking about how to take advantage of it.
They care nothing about "brains" except blowing them out. Fascism is anti-intellectual. While it glorifies the golden future time, really it makes science a means not and end. I strongly advise that everyone in silicon valley, and in US tech generally, should read about what Stalin did to the bourgeois engineers.
The greatest threat to a technological regime is the people who built it, understand it, and can unbuild it.
I've written about it here and there but won't insult you with my swill and sweepings because there's loads of far more interesting history and analysis out there [0]. Suffice it to see, being unemployed in a technofascist regime may be the least of your worries.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1850331