Welcome to a new era of weaponized ignorance

Neolib idiots don't see the (immense) value of fundamental research because it doesn't directly generate profits, more at 11

"Haha, I'm insurrection barbie, get it? Because the libs think when Donald Trump lets a massive mob of his supporters to the Capitol to disrupt the election certification process the libs thought it was an insurrection!"

The world just keeps getting more and more efficient at being dumb. Let's just count all the appallingly stupid things crammed into this small meme with 2 million views:

1. "Insurrection Barbie"
2. Celebrating the defunding of useful scientific research by a new government efficiency agency
3. This new agency is named after a cryptocurrency
4. The cryptocurrency in question was created as a joke to satirize cryptocurrencies, but became a top prominent cryptocurrency itself.
5. The "Department of Government Efficiency Agency" has 2 heads, both of whom have other primary jobs and were chosen in return for political support.
6. There is also already an existing government agency that does the exact same thing, called the "Government Accountability Office". But most people seem to be unaware of it, likely because it's not named after a cryptocurrency/dog meme.
7. This whole scheme was the idea of the richest person in the world.

Idiocracy didn't happen because of unnatural selection, it happened because social media unlocked a runaway chain reaction of stupidity.

the 2010s science bazinga man being the reason all the cool science gets cut is darkly funny.

Fuck dude, I’m about to get an awesome job with the usda after being unemployed for over 2 years, and time is literally running out for me to get my contract finalized before these ghouls fuck everything.

A kind fuck you to every hexbearite ironically cheering on the destruction of the civilian government workforce, although I’ve only seen this opinion from a few

Like the dead don't realize they're dead, they don't realize they're stupid. They're just everyone else's problem.

Like they said after Brexit…”tired of experts”.

Welcome to the new Dark Ages, brought to you by religious fascists.

Hell can we mention that the cold war era these fucks idolize was also the golden age of the government throwing money at side projects?

Say it with me:

No. Research. Is. Useless.

If we say that research is useless because it doesn't bring you mo ey we could stop teaching children math beyond the absolute basics because "it doesn't brinf them anything". This is stupid, because those are the fundamentals that tech children to thing logically and become useful member of society. Same with research. It teaches us the things necessary to maybe invent some of the most useful stuff ever seen