John Dark
George Takei 
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐ฝWhen history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
Matv1@georgetakei Or #europe .. ๐
Scientists welcome!
Reiner Jung@matv1 @georgetakei well if we are clever, moderate our racism and do not ruin our own research infrastructure, we could benefit from it. Unfortunately, Germany won't as we do quite the opposite right now.
๐ช๐บGrey08 ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฌ๐ง@georgetakei Every time i see something like that... It reminds me of this... :/
Miha Markiฤ@Grey08 @georgetakei And I thought it was science fiction
@Grey08 @georgetakei ideocracy is more optimistic than our current state. A US president makes a woke person minister after he has shown that he knows stuff.
@prefec2 @georgetakei I Hope someone or something will stop him...
The "good" part on that whole disaster is that the EU finally found at least one of two balls >.>
The "good" part on that whole disaster is that the EU finally found at least one of two balls >.>
Hugo Mills@georgetakei At this point, I have to ask... what *exactly* do you mean by "get rid of"?
La Guiri@darkling @georgetakei NSF means National Science Foundation and the cuts are not being defined as "reducing money" but as "people who are receiving any form of support from this agency".
Passwordsarehard4@laguiri @darkling @georgetakei At this point I also hate to ask; is this a permanent plan or is there a different โfinal solutionโ they are still working out?
DP0@georgetakei There's a saying in German: "Those who know nothing have to believe everything" ("Wer nichts weiร, muss alles glauben"). And believing (in) everything is exactly MAGA's vision for America ... ๐ฅ
M Schommer@georgetakei
Wellโฆ maybe it was Nov 8th, 2016 :(
Wellโฆ maybe it was Nov 8th, 2016 :(
Merry ChristmasThere are no words.
Martin Vogel@georgetakei The Morgenthau Plan seems to become reality, at last. Interestingly in the US themselves.
fakingphysics@georgetakei Then they're surprised that you look for "idiot" in Google and Donald appears
@georgetakei I wonder if you look for su****r Rutge appears (?)
nothingTV@georgetakei Mistakes like that in education take a long time to fix. That might mean the USA will suffer from that for years even after you get rid of the egocentric clown and his horror cabinet.
Strider Uwe ๐บ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฝ@NothingTV @georgetakei โMightโ? I donโt think soโฆ itโs absodamnlutely guaranteed at this point. The US has committed suicide. It will just take a long time to fully play out.
Kimota94@georgetakei Based on the numbers quoted, the original poster could have said โnearly a thirdโ rather than โa quarterโ but I imagine she specifically chose not to. After all, a majority of Americans believed that a quarter pounder was bigger than a 1/3-pounder.
Professor_StevensI'm not following your math. The 2024 total she gives is 330,100, with the 2026 planned number being 90,000. That's a reduction of 240,100, a bit under a quarter-million.
Projektionsyta330 thousands minus the remaining 90 is 240 thousands - pretty close to a quarter of a million, not a third.
Wim Turnhout ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ต๐ธ@georgetakei Hier mee vergeleken valt de aanpak van onze eigen onderwijssloper, Eppo Bruins, totaal in het niet.
Alex L ๐ ๐ต๐ธThe Anglo-American culture of competition is the real defeat.
Ham on WryAmerica lost the fight the minute it stared bragging about being great and stop working towards greatness.
Trouble is, Trump is making things even worse, not better
Brokar@georgetakei That's why the USA is the greatest country in the world! They're so great, they don't need scientists or teachers anymore! Science is so overrated and AI can easily replace teachers! I'm in awe!
Paul@georgetakei anti intellectualism characterises a certain kind of government. It is not one people generally look at as history's good guys.
K2@georgetakei OK I'm gonna be the cranky one asking "where is your alt-text?" Hmmmmm?
Russell ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ๐Trump wants a nation of dumbasses!
Clutha๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ๐ฆ@russellt @georgetakei
Itโs reported that the reading standards of adults in USA is at the level of 11 year olds.
Figures.
Itโs reported that the reading standards of adults in USA is at the level of 11 year olds.
Figures.
C.Suthorn 
@Clutha @russellt @georgetakei
Fahrenheit 311
The Animal and the Machine@georgetakei
You wonโt lose to China. Youโll lose to Europe.
You wonโt lose to China. Youโll lose to Europe.
Why Not Zoidberg? ๐ฆ@taatm @georgetakei they'll lose to everyone.
Robert Link@georgetakei Copying the 3rd Reich every way they can.
Huntn00@georgetakei China is already out innovating us. The boat sailed 40 years ago. Manufacturing will not come back because it will cost too
much, our markets are degraded, buying power is down, US workers lack manufacturing experience. The bottom 20%, whatever it takes are expendable.
In striving for self wealth, our Capitalists Overlords blessed them, handing this to them on a silver platter with a loud resounding โFeed Meโ.
mrflash818
Dan Ysnรฆs@georgetakei Make America Great again, Hmmm... I dont understand.....
EyeBloody hell! Those are some cuts!
Flaming Cheeto@georgetakei trying to remember the last great thing to come out of Russia that wasn't military tech.
A gadget, book, car, movie, plane, software....
A gadget, book, car, movie, plane, software....
Hallucinationsofasiliconslab@PizzaDemon @georgetakei "The Gulag Archipelago" was really good
doctorlaura@georgetakei Scientist here. Iโm not sure of the context of the chart but given the column headings it looks like they are aiming to KEEP about a quarter of these folks, which means getting rid of about 75%, not 25%. So yeah, this has massive implications for future US competitiveness.
Vassil Nikolov> they are aiming to KEEP about a quarter of these folks, which means getting rid of about 75%, not 25%
Getting rid of about a quarter of _a million_ and that is also about three quarters of _the current number_.
Robin Barton@georgetakei Many will go to other countries but this is a disaster for USA and for science
xs4me2The stupidity of this is deafeningโฆ
sandywb14@georgetakei Breaking Americaโs future. I hate this administration.
And the national debt will increase with the budget bill that Trump is proposing. I believe that the debt will default to those states with a positive dollar balance, although I'm not a macro economist. Isn't China still gripping the US by its balls also in this respect? Will it not be even worse with the Trump bill?
JW@georgetakei
The tech bros are part of this problem. They created the myth that they created it all themselves and didn't rely on government funded research, government education, government regulation ....
Add to that 2 key foundation pieces of TSMC , the world leader in semiconductor manufacturing, was US racism and the wise support of the Taiwanese government.
Martin Vermeer FCD@georgetakei At least the regime has the decency to commit national suicide.
1420 mhz
LevkaHas there ever been a case of fascists being driven from power without violence? How was that accomplished? I want to know. It might come in handy someday.
SouprMatt@georgetakei They also cut $500 billion in tax credits for solar and wind energy. China was already ahead of the U.S. in those areas. This will make it even worse.
โ๏ธ Yours Truly! Unruly ๐จ๐ฆ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
SellaTheChemist@georgetakei And not just to China.
ottawasteph ๐๏ธ@georgetakei Relax, they're coming to Canada ๐ 
Catherine is not complacent@georgetakei well his rotten orange eminence does love the poorly educated.
demi7en ๐๐ช๐บ@georgetakei This is the breaking point? Really?
This scenario involves two trajectories:
#1 The undulating downward trajectory of US investment in its abilities and its *ethics*; intentional internal moronization and divisiveness.
#2 The Chinese dictatorship facing no consequences for its crimes, but instead they're given all the breaks. (Tibet is also just back in the news, for a single day)
1989 Tiananmen massacre = instant bygones with foreign investors queueing up to strike deals only weeks later;
1994 "Most Favoured Nation" MFN trade priviledges given;
2001 full WTO world trade priviledges given, also without any consequences for total disregard for rules;
Trillions in funding, expertise and technology transferred to Chinese control, much voluntarily out of greed, much stolen by the Chinese;
Millions of PRC subjects (those selected for exit permits) have been provided the highest technical and scientific education available by cullible democracies. Strategic *hard sciences* only thank-you-very-much.
Trumpian Murica committing educational seppuku is really nothing but yet another downward notch in America's trajectory hastening its self-inflicted downfall. The key turning points were 1989, 1994 and 2001 with the medias and the populations in the USA and other democracies just going with the China (CCP regime) normalization program.
Perhaps the reason I'm not a fan of the horror genre is because I watched all of this unfold in real time in slow motion.
Meanwhile America is on course to accelerate its descent at least for the next 3 1/2 years, and the Dems have offered no alternative to the China Empowerment process.
And the Chinese regime now controls, thanks to the last 30 years, everything it needs to harness its industrial might to build up global authoritarianism and to extinguish the regime's greatest existential threat: democracy. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
Dark Phoenix ๐บ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
House Panther 
@georgetakei The US is suffering from "brain drain." We are going to be an #idiocracy. Strike that, we already are.
JillL@georgetakei #us #science types are welcome in Australia
KrazyKat@georgetakei ๐ณ Point, Uncle George!