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Not just clean energy. America's scientific advantage has always been underpinned by our ability to recruit exceptional foreign scientists. Now we're rounding them up and deporting them. And broadly cutting funding to the remaining scientists while half the country actively demonizing them. China is jumping all over the opportunity and recruiting every scientist they can. They aren't the only one but they are America's most significant single country rival and, currently, the best candidate to be able to build a new global hegemony as America destroys its own. As an American my current hope for the next world order is the rise of a strong unified Europe. Even then we're probably going to end up with a bipolar world order like with the US and USSR post WW2.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Yep. Trent with the Softball scholarship is not going to develop fusion power.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

The USA has cancer.

It's Nazis.

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

They always said this would or could be China’s century.

I just don’t think we knew it’d be because the United States shot their own dick off willingly.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago
[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Cancelled. You can't be socially incorrect now, you can't say it like it is, you can't make stupid harmless jokes because you need to consider the feelings of those MAGA snowflakes.

/s fuck them. They love playing the bully, but then get bitchslapped and go running to mommy sobbing their eyes out "they're being mean to me".

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

the fountaining

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

American Republicans are selling out the future of humanity for their own personal power and greed.

At what point should they be treated as criminals in the International Criminal Court? At what point do they face justice for what they're doing?

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

In the proxima series by Stephen Baxter, when people realize just how fucked they are and revolt, they have huge international trials sentencing the oligarchy and their extended families to death.

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Similarly in The Ministry for the Future, a bunch of people take "more direct" actions against those who put them in the situation where thousands of people boil to death in peak summer heat in India and such. And I don't blame them, I'm sure that's going to happen much more when the general public experiences more and more negative extreme effects from climate change. Hence why many billionaires are building climate change proof compounds.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Now wouldn't be to soon, as far as I'm concerned. Since you asked.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

China is also building a ton of coal plants too

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

As temporary measures while they are building more nuclear plants than the US ever did.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago

Oh really? What about the solar and wind?

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That’s what Americans wanted. Otherwise they wouldn’t have elected pro oil, coal, and gas republicans. 🤷‍♂️

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

“America in the dust” is our future in general…

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I don't believe that. We have beautiful clean coal.

/s

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago
[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And public transit, and housing, and wage growth...

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