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Not only is Trump leveling science funding at NASA, like he did with the National Science Foundation, but look closely at the budget. Beginning next year at 800 million and by 2030, 3.5 billion (nearly 20% of its budget), NASA is required to work towards “Commercial Moon and Mars Infrastructure and Transportation”. The ultimate subsidy for the commercial space sector.

They also eliminated STEM engagement program, which provided funding for the next generation of scientists to participate in NASA opportunities. I can’t wait for all this greatness Trump has been preaching to arrive.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Not sure about what? The US is certainly getting replaced, and we'll all be better off if the Great Satan isn't the center of scientific progress.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

we’ll all be better off if the Great Satan isn’t the center of scientific progress.

No, I wouldn't be better off living in a country where women are arrested and killed for appearing in public without a silly garment covering their head.

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago
[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The women in that country would be better off without the US constantly attacking them.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 month ago

The great...Satan? ...Wat? Is that Europe orr... China?

[-] Netux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You must be young. The Iranians and other parts of the middle east have referred to us since at least the 80s, and probably before.

When we brought a bunch of Nazis in after WWII and installed them in positions of importance (like heading NASA by Wernher von Braun) I think we gave them a pretty reasonable argument.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago

It's like everyday I learn more and more about how shitty this country's history is.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Don't worry, you're not wrong about China — what's going on in the U.S. is just more televised.

You know, because of the 'freedoms' and whatnot.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 1 month ago

I sincerely encourage you to check out documentaties about china that dont start with genocide. You will see that today its used as red scare.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

china that dont start with genocide

Yes is sucks for the Chinese that their government keeps committing genocide and they don't have any way to end that by choosing their own leaders. Except for our lucky friends in Taiwan.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 1 month ago

keeps committing genocide

  1. Can you prove that?
  2. Have you bothered to check out anything else about china?
[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

My country is in serious trouble but at least we never ran over protesting college students with tanks and then washed them down the drains.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Israel runs over people with its US tanks and it's the 51st state, so, let's not throw stones in this big shitty glass house?

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the whataboutism. Israel can go fuck itself too, they are worse at the moment.

I don’t need everyone else to be perfect to level valid criticism.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Israel can go fuck itself too, they are worse at the moment.

The US is directly responsible for the innocent people that Israel kills. It's the 51st state. They are so fundamentally connected and Israel is so deeply reliant on the US for economic and military and legal connections that it is impossible to separate the two.

Israel would probably cease to exist if the US didn't give them unlimited backing and support.

You know what that means? That means it's not fucking """whataboutism""" to bring up Israel! Israel's crimes are US's crimes.

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

We weren’t talking about Israel. That’s why it’s whataboutism regardless of the veracity of your claims.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago

We are talking about Israel, because we are talking about the US. It's the 51st state. You don't get to separate the two as if they are totally different countries that are unrelated to each other. Israel's crimes are US crimes.

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The United States is comprised of 50 states so your hyperbole is going nowhere. Israel is a separate nation no matter how close friends the pair of assholes are. You have not countered my argument.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago

Your only argument seems to be "well there's only 50 stars on the flag, so, checkmate 😏". Israel isn't a real nation, it's just an extension of the US empire. Israel literally can not exist without US support and the US will give Israel unlimited support no matter what. They're intertwined so deeply that they can't be separated. Israel would collapse the instant the US stopped propping it up.

I repeat, it's not a real country. It was created with the stroke of a pen and will end with one. Israel's crimes are US crimes.

You don't get it yet, but I think you will. I don't even need to win this argument. History will do it for me.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Lol so... you just willfully ignore the shit they do...got it

Fuckin tankies.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 1 month ago

What you're doing is called a strawman.

Of course one should not ignore crimes against humanity. I'm saying we are reducing people, countries and systems based on what agenda we have today.

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