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0 pointsodyssey71y ago0 comments

I think it means the next administration would have to hire new people to offer grants to researchers. This would bring new perspectives into the process. There is never any shortage of researchers to fund.

And that the ranks of researchers, which are often stagnant due to a shortage of jobs for PhD holders, would experience turnover in the interim, creating openings for fresh voices when the funding resumes.

Ideally, imo, the grant process could be distributed across more organizations rather than being as centralized as it has been. The next administration might be free to do so if the existing orgs are no longer thriving at that time.

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intended1y ago

why.. where will the money come from? And next administration?

This is 14 DAYS since election. March isnt even here yet. There are 4 tax filings before the next election.

Please take a look at things like demonitization, or many "harsh" medicine programs in other countries.

The fallout is going to be decades. The government is going to pivot to bread and circuses. The sides are going to get more entrenched, and then theres going to be riots and violence.

This will pass, and new crap will come in. This is banana republic territory, not America territory.

odyssey7OP1y ago

The Alzheimer’s debacle was already a generation. Perhaps a timely retirement or two would have cut that short.

When I have the privilege of working with new college graduates, they get me out of my old modes of thinking. And they are quite talented. We will still have college graduates in four years.

Granted, if you believe there is a significant risk that the United States falls into irreversible autocracy within the next four years, the analysis does change. However, I just don’t buy it. There are two branches of government that check the executive branch. Trump has been elected as a lame duck with no possibility for a second term.

intended1y ago

I’ve lived in developing nations.

People who have lived in first world countries are prone to miss many crucial signs of banana republics.

And why not - it looks hysterical from the surface.

The crux of the matter is institutions. And your institutions have been under attack since watergate.

In addition, our society is unprepared for a media industry that must be profitable and fast paced.

I would think about what red lines y9u would have had in the 90s. And where your red lines are. Call it being the 90s back again.

Then decide what you think the outcomes are likely to be.

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intended1y ago

why.. where will the money come from? And next administration?

This is 14 DAYS since election. March isnt even here yet. There are 4 tax filings before the next election.

Please take a look at things like demonitization, or many "harsh" medicine programs in other countries.

The fallout is going to be decades. The government is going to pivot to bread and circuses. The sides are going to get more entrenched, and then theres going to be riots and violence.

This will pass, and new crap will come in. This is banana republic territory, not America territory.

odyssey7OP1y ago

The Alzheimer’s debacle was already a generation. Perhaps a timely retirement or two would have cut that short.

When I have the privilege of working with new college graduates, they get me out of my old modes of thinking. And they are quite talented. We will still have college graduates in four years.

intended1y ago

I’ve lived in developing nations.

People who have lived in first world countries are prone to miss many crucial signs of banana republics.

And why not - it looks hysterical from the surface.

The crux of the matter is institutions. And your institutions have been under attack since watergate.

In addition, our society is unprepared for a media industry that must be profitable and fast paced.

I would think about what red lines y9u would have had in the 90s. And where your red lines are. Call it being the 90s back again.

Then decide what you think the outcomes are likely to be.

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