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Sure, that’s great but it’s not even the point. Fundamental research and other type of “useless” scientific endeavors help humanity as a whole to better understand our universe but would never be privately funded because they don’t have any concrete and immediate financial benefits. This is precisely what a government should finance, because no one else would do it and yet it’s small stuff like that that make us collectively move forward as a species

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Musk fans don’t want humanity to advance. They hate technological progress.

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For OTHERS, yes. But many want the cutting edge for themselves, at no cost to themselves.

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Where did Musk come from? I don’t see any mention of it here

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Musk will govern the DOGE department, won’t he?

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The Department of goverment efficiency was Musk’s meme idea and Trump is apparently just rolling with it.

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help humanity as a whole

And here you’ve identified why they hate it. They cannot stand the idea that resources might benefit other people, resources that they could hoard instead.

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Oh, they’ll probably publicly fund it for private profit

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And so the US lost decade becomes the medieval dark ages

It’d be fascinating as an outsider if the choices made by the US didn’t basically impact everything, everywhere.

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I thought we were done with the “medieval dark age” myth.

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How’s Neo-Feudal Gilded Age strike you?

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One giant leap forward, one roundhouse kick back.

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More of a global depression after these yahoos purposefully crash the economy.

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In addition, government research in the sciences is miniscule. You could cut ALL of science funding and be no where close to the 1 trillion that Musk claims he’ll be able to reduce the budget by

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Regardless, he’ll claim he cut 500 bajillion dollars no matter what he ends up doing

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My bet is that if he expects to cut 2 trillion, he will end up increasing the budget by 4 trillion.

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No no, you don’t understand. This is what people have actually been asking for this whole time. Nobody wanted the budget randomly cut, they wanted it distributed

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He’ll cut 2 trillion out of the general budget, redirect it into his own holdings, and demand praise for his genius leadership. Oh, and he may or may not actually eliminate some programs along the way.

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He actually claimed 2 trillion.

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I knew Elongated Muskrat was a dumbass but I didn’t know he also can’t do math.

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I don’t think he even attempted to do math. Someone asked him about it and said what the current budget was, and he just rectally sourced 2 trillion. I assume he said that because it’s big enough to sound huge, but less than half of spending so people don’t panic that everything will be cut.

It’s meaningless bullshit until he actually says specifically what will be cut. Republicans have been claiming they can cut huge chunks of spending for years, but it never materializes. They only know how cut government income without paying for it.

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Yeah, we’ve been studying the sex lives of various different animals (including ourselves!) for centuries now, yet nobody bat an eye until now. 🙄

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