Every American here has allowed the quickest decline of a superpower in history. The damage to our country is irreparable and going to result in a worse life for generations to come
Trump fires NSF's oversight board
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They're first at lots of things! Largest incarcerated population, highest infant mortality rate in the developed world, highest military spending, highest obesity rate in the developed world, highest rate of school shootings by a huge margin, and the highest gun ownership rate by a long shot (edit: pun not intended)! USA! USA! USA!
All true. But also GDP, science and innovation, and charitable giving - both overall and per capita.
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#73So is this a 2400% reduction in the number of NSF board members?
This is a reference to RJK Jr's pronouncement that Trump has a "different way of calculating percentages". Seems apt to me in this context.
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#75There’s only one reason to get rid of all the smart people, shenanigans are afoot.
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#77What are the equivalent institutions in China? Do they do open houses?
Why do you ask? Do you assume those fired NSF workers want to go work in China now? Or that China manages its domestic variant of the NSF better and accepts people critical of the CCP ideology?
Most people in china are not members of the CPC. And yes, they clearly are more competent.
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#78Trying to find a silver lining and think positively...
Will a future administration have an opportunity to build something new and better from scratch which would not have been possible due to institutional resistance before it was all burnt down?
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're first at lots of things! Largest incarcerated population, highest infant mortality rate in the developed world, highest military spending, highest obesity rate in the developed world, highest rate of school shootings by a huge margin, and the highest gun ownership rate by a long shot (edit: pun not intended)! USA! USA! USA!
All true. But also GDP, science and innovation, and charitable giving - both overall and per capita.
>GDP
Without question, but despite leading on GDP the USA lags behind in so many other key areas. It's astounding to those of us non-Americans that you can spend 30 Billion on the Iran war but you have elementary school children who are accruing "lunch debt" because they can't afford to pay for meals at school.
Life in America seems so needlessly cruel.
>science and innovation
Not for long. The damage is already done, and America will cease to lead in this area in my lifetime, likely to never recover.
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#80Presumably next he will nominate Kushner, Dr. Oz and a few donors...
What a shame for a country.