Only because the US pulled out a Trump-shaped gun in the middle of the race and shot itself in both kneecaps.
It was happening before that, but it’s definitely much faster now.
kicking 10,000 PhDs out of the country will do that.
been seeing a lot of futurism astroturfing recently.
What makes you believe it’s astroturfing? What are the grass roots movements you feel it is trying to fake?
Dude it’s 2026, 90% of the Internet is astroturfing, including here.
fake outrage to incite online political discourse.
who’s doing it?
futurism has routinely supported silicon valley hedgefund crypto AI bros. I trust they post editorialized events that benefit the upper class and keeps the lower class angry and pointing fingers at each other.
America is willfully surrendering its position because it’s run by traitors who are being controlled by hostile adversaries using pedophile kompromat.
…and Americans keep voting them into power
Literal anti-science Nazis.
Nazis. Anti-science. WTF.
Even the Nazis have gone downhill in the US. Full throttle collapse.
Those hands! I want to see xi and trump play patty cake!
Yeah it really helps your odds of winning a race when the opposing jockey gets off of his horse and shoots it in the leg.
Can’t have been too difficult, since America effectively stopped dead in its tracks.
Not surprising. The US is undergoing self-sabotage on an unprecedented scale.
Oh good, now the rest of countries can steal China tech while they cry about it. The circle of industrial espionage!
Most of the highest funded research universities in the world are in China. The Chinese are outspending their Western counterparts and it shows.
They believe in the Future. I really think American policy acts like we don’t
Feel like I’ve been hearing this for 20 years now.
Well, the crosspost in !science of this exact article was from four months ago, so…
