Anti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science.
  • atro_city@fedia.io
    6·
    13 hours ago

    Brought upon by idiotic voters (easily manipulated or egoistic or short-sighted) and non-voters who shirked their duty 👍 Even some researchers just voted for the conservatives.

    Can’t forget the self-serving politicians who contributed a lot to the problem by not caring for the people but their rich friends instead (and still getting re-elected by idiotic voters). It’s a vicious cycle.

  • Greyghoster@aussie.zoneEnglish
    24·
    18 hours ago

    Conservatives just have no idea how research is done and think they can tell people what to research. The absurdity is that no scientific be can tell someone to research something that hasn’t been discovered yet!

    • aasatru@kbin.earth
      161·
      17 hours ago

      The far right are a bunch of crooks and Russian agents. It’s not that they think we can progress as a society without spending money on research. It’s that they’re being paid to make sure western society collapses.

      Wilders, Le Pen, Farage, whatever the knobheads in the AfD are called. They’ve all been found to receive funding from Russia. It’s not that they’re dumb enough to think this is a good idea, they’re just evil enough to profit from it.

      • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        16 hours ago

        That’s an important realisation. The people who fall for them and do their bidding might be dumb, but the people pulling the strings are anything but dumb. They are just plenty of evil and very skilled at manipulating dumb people. This is what makes the far right so dangerous.

        • aasatru@kbin.earth
          4·
          16 hours ago

          They’re not stupid, but they’re not particularly clever either. They’re just mediocre people pumped up by our adveseries to believe they can be something important and special.

          Of course, Geert Wilders believes he’s brilliant. Just like Trump. They are never going to accept to themselves that their reason for being there is that their grandiose thoughts about themselves are only matched by their mediocracy, which is the exact set of traits that makes them so easy to take advantage of.

          I agree it’s dangerous to dismiss them as stupid, but it would be a mistake to assume they’re particularly clever. They’re just dangerously mediocre.