Federal Shutdown Means More Grants Won't Be Reviewed This Cycle
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The federal shutdown is causing NIH grants to go unreviewed, halting research and prompting concerns about the US's scientific competitiveness, with commenters discussing the broader implications for the scientific community and the country's global standing.
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(Or worse, grants are doled out to cronies)
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.
Illegal immigrants are ineligible for the ACA subsidies that the Dems are fighting to keep.
> 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.
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 But I think most impressions of China are just well outdated; they've been ahead of the curve for years now.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.
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.
It was something like, "the US spent trillions on wars in the middle east, we spent trillions investing in our country"
Chongqing is particularly amusing with what's possibly the longest escalator in the world: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1culpmy/the_deepe...
This is no longer true - because the US now spends trillions on internal domestic wars to run a mass prison system - all while China keeps investing in development of the country.
Try posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh on one of their social networks then get back to me.
I had a Chinese coworker who confided he'd like to make $$$ in the US then maybe go back to be a professor after his post doc ended.
Next time I saw him all he would say is "China has changed". Apparently it's a dog whistle for all the things people used to say openly, at least when over here.
I am not saying China is better. I am saying that they are not regressing as a society. America is actively regressing back to pre civil rights racist, anti-education, anti-health era.
Too busy putting folks in literal concentration camps:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
By almost all measures, Trump is worse than Xi. The only reason Trump's rhetoric is pared down is because of the American system - which republicans hate and are trying to skirt with executive orders.
There's a big sunk cost in learning a language, but Canada and the UK have some fine unis. (No offense to Edinburgh but you're no Oxbridge yet -- I'd bet that Scotland declares independence and joins back with the EU at some point, the main reason independence failed last vote is a lot of the things they wanted they got via being in the EU.)
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