Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future

Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by fzeroracer on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:12PM (#44259391)

One of the big problems of having a government ran by an oligarchic gerontocracy is that none of the people in charge are going to care about long term effects because they'll be dead before it affects them. So they maximize short term value extraction and destruction.

It's not strictly a far right issue either, the dems are feckless and useless for similar reasons being that any sort of long term consequences does not matter to them.

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by leptons on Thursday June 12, 2025 @01:43PM (#44260498)

> the dems are feckless and useless for similar reasons being that any sort of long term consequences does not matter to them.

Please elaborate on this.

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by Loughla on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:22PM (#44261035)

Old. They're old. Gerontocracy means old people. Dems, republicans, both are old.

The average age for republicans and democrats in the house is 57 or so. The average in the senate is 62(r) and 65(d).

While 57 isn't ancient, it's also not young enough to give a shit about 2070. 62 and 65 year olds certainly don't care about a date so far in the future that their kids will be dead.

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by Braxton1980 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:17PM (#44261979)

Ok. They are old.

What's the evidence they don't care?

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by leptons on Thursday June 12, 2025 @04:24PM (#44262775)

That's some ageist bullshit. "Okay Boomer" is basically your quip about why Democrats are bad.

The voting record proves you wrong.

One side is full-on fascist authoritarian Russia-style mobster government.

And you say both sides are the same because they're all "old"?

Get out of here.

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by Loughla on Thursday June 12, 2025 @06:56PM (#44264087)

I literally didn't say any of that. Don't put words in my mouth.

I'm saying they're all old. Their incentives are wildly different than mine because they're older than I am.

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by leptons on Thursday June 12, 2025 @07:10PM (#44264191)

Someone can be old and still vote in the interest of the future. There are plenty of Democrats that fit that description. You're just an ageist.

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by dang on Friday June 13, 2025 @03:56PM (#44271716)

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by Braxton1980 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:17PM (#44261966)

Are both sides equally bad?

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