24 points by SubiculumCode 11 hours ago
Federal Shutdown Means More NIH Grants Won't Be Reviewed this cycle, more lost time, more research coming to a halt, more scientists leaving to other nations. This is what a failing superpower looks like.
Seriously thinking about looking for a position in Europe, as funding my research has gotten terribly uncertain (even more uncertain the it usually is) in the U.S.
If anyone thought China's gain in the last 20 years was rapid, they have no clue what it would look like by 2028 - thanks to a self-inflicted damage by Republicans.
China has actually slowed down drastically over the past few years. They shot to middle class and are now facing middle class problems - unemployment, overpriced housing, low fertility rates, insane traffic, social welfare, etc.
The trade war since 2018 does impact their livelihood. But I think most impressions of China are just well outdated; they've been ahead of the curve for years now. Funny enough, a Google search on how China is doing will pop up what Americans think of China, despite me being geographically closer to China than USA.
If anything, there will probably be a lot of social reforms in the next 50 years or so because the political censorship is starting to crack. They'll need to loosen it to have control, ironically. We'll probably see it evolve to something similar to Western style surveillance and censorship, e.g. FBI kind of stuff.
Lots of problems in China. But if I were a betting person, I would bet they'll fix their problems far better than America because of 3 reasons
1. They care about citizens more than billionaires
2. They are not obsessed with partisan and religious takeover
3. They don't have a narcissistic tyrant driving the country down.
This can all change if they get their own narcissistic tyrant someday - and they have a poorer political system to deal with tyrants. But that's only in comparison to historical America. Trumpistan America might be comparable in political weakness to communist China.
Shri Thanedar, a Democrat senator, said outright that Democrats are intentionally causing this shutdown.
https://x.com/ShriThanedar/status/1973393877122818079
Using taxpayer money to pay for healthcare for illegal immigrants is also a self-destructive act. China isn’t funding healthcare for illegal immigrants either, for good reason.
Exact quote from the video
> returning back to Detroit this morning after the republicans failed to show up in the US house. We got to make sure Americans have the healthcare that they need, and if that means we've got to shut this government down than so be it.
Not sure where you are getting the illegal immigrants stuff from.
And both sides have the power to avoid the shut down by coming to an agreement with the other side.
If democrats are intentionally shutting down the government to keep healthcare for Americans, republicans are equally as intentionally shutting down the government down to oppose healthcare for Americans.
Why is the democrats fault and not the fault of the republicans who voted against the budget? They could have prevented the shutdown all by themselves.
> Using taxpayer money to pay for healthcare for illegal immigrants is also a self-destructive act.
Illegal immigrants are ineligible for the ACA subsidies that the Dems are fighting to keep.
Are you this dense? ACA subsidies cannot be taken by illegal immigrants.
Your hatred of people is diluting your assessment of why China is rising. China is rising because it is not being run by a narcissistic tyrant. It is run by people who are actively trying to fund more science, industry, taxing the rich, and by being a globally reliable partner - much more than Trumpistan is.
Does is also mean less links will be submitted? /s
The Dem argument would be that NIH Grants are not particularly reliable under a funded Trump administration, as the administration seems to ignore the will of Congress on a whim, cancel grants, etc with little legal recourse.
(Or worse, grants are doled out to cronies)