• @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      583 months ago

      scientists are usually the first target of when a dictator takes power, they often leave before shit hits the fan. then it goes to POC, and then lgbtq+, and then non-loyalists.

      • @Krono@lemmy.today
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        253 months ago

        It kinda seems like immigrants and anti-war protesters made it to the top of the list this time.

        • @reiterationstation@lemm.ee
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          113 months ago

          Beat me to it. How you could say the scientists are the first to go while they are putting legal residents that have done nothing into el Salvadorian prisons is beyond me.

          • Christer Enfors
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            83 months ago

            They didn’t say scientists are the first target, they said scientists are usually the first target. Didn’t say that they were the first target in this case.

      • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Controlling the universities is for control of information.

        The Nazis could easily burn down the Institute of Sex Research and all it contents. Today’s fascists cannot burn down the science on queer people and global warming.

        Universities have smart people who can say “hey this is the way your economic policies are harming this group of people” or “being LGBT is a normal human variation” or “the American civil war was fought over slavery” or “here are characteristics that seem to be common to every incarnation of fascism, and how they all seem to be related to what’s happening now.”

        The idiot arm attacks knowledge online with Alex Jones style “information warfare” - just repeating insane falsehoods over and over again. Never playing defense, always flooding the web with lies and half truths. This is also why fascists love AI so much. (How much time do people waste arguing with bots? And the amount of bots makes these ideas seem more “normal” and common then they are…)

    • Tiefling IRL
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      53 months ago

      It’s really fucking difficult, but I’m grateful for the opportunity I have right now. For everyone’s sake I really hope the biue states wake up and realize that they’re not getting anything out of the Union