notsoshaihulud @ notsoshaihulud @lemmy.world

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I think they only fear looking weak.

Interesting read.

They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The antisemites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

This is what we see these days. Trump and his followers lying is normalized, i.e., they are not "obliged to use words responsibly", whereas anybody argues against trumpists is.

They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.

This is what changed since then. They no longer fear being seen as ridiculous or stupid. They embrace it.

the problem is exactly what we see with measles.

1. children who have no choice are the ones who suffer the consequences
2. because most vaccines cannot be 100% effective (e.g., I got 3 extra MMR shots and I still don't have detectable measles antibody levels despite being fully immunocompetent), they do rely on herd immunity protecting those who don't mount full responses to the shots.

The thing about public health is that it's public interest over personal choices. In a functioning free society those personal choices would still align with public interest based on the understanding of societal good. So the antagonism is totally artificial.

which is still the highest margin since 2016. IIRC it was less than 150K for 2016 and well below 100K for 2020.

It's interesting to watch this, and while Bernie is slightly left to my values, how come this octogenarian gets it and the rest of the party doesn't? I'm just amazed that some democrats interpret this as "let's align with MAGA" a little more, instead of calling those "right wing radicalists". The future of Dems is to be the anti-oligarchy party. While I understand how risky this may be as unlimited dark money pouring in can tilt things, but people still have the power if they unite.

sadly, if we told them the "dems definitely don't want you to drink methanol, because it's bad for you", there'd be some who'd do it out of spite. this is literally what's happening with vaccines, but one's mental blindness leading to physical blindness has some poetry to it.

This is the thing that distinguishes the intellect of orbán and trump. Orbán developed what he officially named "the system of national collaboration" with an unofficial motto of "those with us will thrive [and those who are against us will struggle]". So initially they made sure that it was a lucrative thing to align with the system making it very inconvenient for systematic resistance to emerge. Trump seems to be failing this idea already in the acute phase: maintaining pressure even when companies realign with him makes it much more convenient to push back straight up...

This has nothing to do with antisemitism and everything with oligarchic takeover of academia. The goal is to inflict financial pain on the largest research universities located in states where republicans have limited power. Many of these universities (at least the private ones) will be able to offset some of the financial deficits through accepting private donations that will increase the influence of donors over university policies, so they can realign them with the oligarchs.

In the meantime, the big name universities will start applying for private grants making those unattainable for smaller institutions, so this financial pain will "trickle down". The long-term effect will be, fewer PhDs, fewer people wanting to do science, fewer people coming to the USA to do research and will overall put an end to US scientific supremacy that has always relied on brain drain anyway.

Just another great example how trump and trumpists don't understand geopolitics (they are triggering nuclear rearmament), and they don't understand science either (they want scientific solutions, like carbon capture, but hate scientists who figure these out).

The GOP is trying to portray itself as the "anti elitism party", but in reality they are simply the financial elite's party attacking the intellectual elite. Ironically what draws working people towards the GOP is the idea that one day they'll become rich-rich. In reality, helping people to get an education is a much more realistic goal and would actually help society as a whole.

don't get your hopes up. Harvard has billions and billions on private endowments. They are gonna be impacted the least.

"tiergas"? what are we, animals?:)

Ad homonym jokes aside, as a university researcher I was absolutely disgusted by Columbia's approach to the protests. They literally approached this the worst way possible and spilled gasoline on fire. However, this is just an excuse to divide public opinion while they are actually aiming to defund top universities. If you punch a few $100M holes in university budgets it will kill research first. And that's the goal.

assembling the stupid, bigoted, gullible, and most importantly - least empathetic bunch of people.

To me the one of the funnier things is these same people who whine endlessly about the oppression by political correctness getting upset about being called deplorables or plain ol' stupid.

The way Ryleigh presented her story made it sound like she was expecting the trump administration to impregnate her. Incredibly absurd...

At least there's still an option for her: all she has to do is message Musk...

"SLAMMED" I say! "SLAMMED!"

What is this open mic night? FFS.

yeah vance had the edge on the casting couch

this!

you don't know how military alliances work, do you? not to worry, the US president doesn't know either.

Trump is the ONLY Politician doing EXACTLY what he Promised

and its opposite too. in rapid succession. 5D chest

they want Vance. must is a useful idiot for them

why would trump be concerned about law suits? "he is the law"

Well, that's something we can influence if we stopped buying new shit.