The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"

Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by seattle_spring on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:09AM (#43227580)

His actions were outlined in Project 2025 throughout his candidacy. Surprised all it took was a simple statement of ignorance for people to completely dismiss what was plainly written what was going to happen (and currently is).

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Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by CamperBob2 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:17AM (#43227623)

"I love the poorly-educated!" was not empty rhetoric. Only a country that gives slow-witted people the same political power as those on the right side of the IQ bell curve could elect a Trump democratically.

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Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by giardini on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:22PM (#43232688)

So would you would take the vote away from " those on the right side of the IQ bell curve"? (That has been done before, you know. You might be somewhat uncomfortable sitting with those who once did it, however).

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Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by wyager on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:56PM (#43233042)

Both parties actually target a bimodal IQ distribution. The D distribution covers most of the left tail and the upper-mid, and the R distribution covers the lower-mid and most of the right tail. You generally expect interleaved affiliation like this; it's just a question of how many bands there are. R avg is actually slightly higher, although that doesn't tell the full story. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

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Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by CamperBob2 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @01:05PM (#43233155)

I don't think it's a partisan question, although it'd be interesting to repeat the survey today given how the makeup of the Republican party has changed since 2014. Keep in mind Trump could not have won re-election with the support of Republican constituencies alone.

You had to be genuinely gullible to vote for Trump this time, but that wasn't the case in 2016. I'm thinking of the blue-collar union members who voted for the Trump '24 ticket, for example, bitching to everybody who would listen about the price of eggs under Biden. In 2014 they would have been dragging down the Democrats' collective IQ, and now they've switched sides. Yet I wouldn't be surprised if many of them are still registered Democrats.

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Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by wyager on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:56PM (#43238435)

> You had to be genuinely gullible to vote for Trump this time

It seems like he's mostly doing what his coalition was hoping he would do? Certainly to a greater degree than in 2016. I have not seen any credible indications of post-election regret from his coalition.

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Re:The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed" by CamperBob2 on Monday March 03, 2025 @01:05AM (#43238793)

I have not seen any credible indications of post-election regret from his coalition.

They believed that things were bad and that Trump would make them better rather than worse. If that's not gullibility, I don't know what is.

His voters will ultimately be among his greatest victims... but he'll blame Biden for whatever goes wrong, and they'll lap it up like a dog with a dish of antifreeze, just like they always do.

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