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by butterbomb 114 days ago
God, maybe I could buy if it it came with significant work to repair US education and investment in a domestic science workforce, but unfortunately in the US, these nationalist waves have to also come with a strong air of anti-intellectualism.
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Also, obedience to "right think". Which is why the need to force social media billionaires to tell the feds who is "a political enemy."
It's wild how the President literally said, "I love the poorly educated." It turns out that when you treat a PhD like a deep-state conspiracy and a high school diploma like a Nobel Prize, you just get a country that tries to fix its power grid with thoughts, prayers, and a sharpie.
Idiocracy was a documentary sent to us from the future.
In Idiocracy the president hires the smartest guy and is still trying to fix his country rather then intentionally destroy it.
We haven't reached the Gatorade event horizon, yet.
Unfortunately you run into the same problem as Mao's China did after the Cultural Revolution.
Where does the FIFA peace prize come in here?