Summary

Trump has reportedly slashed funding for the NIH’s Roy Blunt Center for Alzheimer’s Research, leading to layoffs, including its incoming director.

The center, named after former GOP Senator Roy Blunt, was a Republican-backed initiative to advance Alzheimer’s and dementia research. Despite previously championing the program, Republicans have remained silent on the cuts.

Experts warn weakening the center will significantly set back Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research.

Critics argue the move contradicts past GOP support and lacks justification from either party or scientific leaders.

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      8 days ago

      Calling a comment about rachel fucking maddow on lemmy ‘holding our leaders accountable’ is straight up pathetic shit. Go actually do something or find a new tune to sing.

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        She’s a leader regardless of if I like her or not. She has a ton of influence and she uses that to cheerlead the blue MAGA democrats who can’t do nothing wrong not even a genocide is worthy of criticism to the vote blue no matter who types who can’t figure out how or why they lost an election.

        Maybe if your kind - blue MAGA - learned to grow the fuck up and hold their leaders accountable instead of being pussies the democrats wouldn’t have lost the election. You know, demand they hold a primary and stop funding israel. But that’s too hard, let’s lose to fascists instead! And then ratchet further to the right!

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            Yeah, like Curtis yarvin isn’t the leader of the “dark enlightenment” fascist MAGA bullshit and has the ear of Musk and Thiel.

            Nah he’s just an influencer. “Thought leaders” are only a linked in phenomenon I guess.

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          Why are you posting when there is a genocide going on?

          Isn’t stopping a genocide worth you going Luigi and sacrificing yourself in an attempt to stop it?

          What’s your life worth compared to the genocide happening right now? You not doing everything in your power is basically you condoning it.

          Maybe doing Luigi is too extreme, fine. Are you still paying your taxes? The taxes funding a genocide and you’re still paying them? How come? You’re not willing to go to prison to stop genocide?

          I think you should do more than not vote and post online if you really do care.

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            I hope democrats continue to lose elections, their blue MAGA supporters deserve to cry and suffer over it. Serves them right.

            You’re getting the fascist dictatorship you deserve. Decades of voting blue no matter who brought us here.

            Your grandparents murdered Nazis so you pussies could whine cry and carry on about how there’s nothing you can do except vote for closet fascists. Pathetic.

            The democrat party needs to be fucking destroyed. They are complicit in the rise of fascism and cynically fundraise off it while giving themselves tax breaks. Rather lose to a fascist than give a single concession to the left. Fuck them and their supporters.

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              I hope democrats continue to lose elections, their blue MAGA supporters deserve to cry and suffer over it. Serves them right.

              Lol, we’re not the ones suffering, I’m Canadian so the only suffering I’m experiencing is through empathy. An emotion you don’t understand unless you can update your Facebook profile picture to get some likes for it.

              It’s transwomen being sent to the opposite sex prison to be raped. Veterans, blacks, and women losing their jobs. Children getting measles. Immigrants getting sent to Guantanamo Bay. Ukrainian forced to sell off chunks of their country one piece at a time.

              They’re suffering, not me and not you.

              You feel so deeply for the Palestinian cause you volunteered these groups to suffer and die alongside them.

              You of course, are perfectly comfortable at home on your computer. Paying your taxes and making some fresh pop with your Sodasteam™.

              If Palestine versus Israel wasn’t something you saw as an opportunity to demonstrate your virtue and your correct-think then you wouldn’t give a shit.

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                They’re suffering, not me and not you.

                I’m queer and visibly gender non conforming. I’m not suffering yet but I will be soon because democrats are controlled opposition. Nobody is coming to save us. Liberals are out to brunch. They’re confirming his nominees! Fuck them!

                You of course, are perfectly comfortable at home on your computer. Paying your taxes and making some fresh pop with your Sodasteam™.

                If Palestine versus Israel wasn’t something you saw as an opportunity to demonstrate your virtue and your correct-think then you wouldn’t give a shit.

                I’m an antizionist jew who’s been anti Israel for 20 fucking years. I don’t own a soda stream for obvious fucking reasons. That genocide isn’t staying over there, dumb liberal. All that tech will be used against me soon. Fuck liberals.

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                  Amazing! Glad to see you’ve fully embraced masochism. Little upset that you’re forcing it on everyone else though.

                  Here is a question:

                  How did you imagine withholding your vote would help the Palestinians?

                  Walk me through what you thought would immediately happen when the democrats lost and how you think the resulting half-decade is going to go than if you’d ‘voted blue no matter who’?

                  I really want to hear from you on those two points. What did you think the immediate response would be, and what do you think will happen over the next five years as a result of the democratic loss.

                  For bonus points: explain how these results put the Palestinians in a better place than if Kamala had won.

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                    Explain to me what the point of voting for democrats is when all they’re doing in “opposition” is confirming his nominees.

                    They won’t even do the bare minimum. Obstruction. They won’t even obstruct. Fuck them and fuck you too. They’re not an opposition party and voting for them would have the same outcome.