If you’re looking for a poster child for something this administration is doing that has no apparent support from anyone, I think you’ve got your winner.

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.

  • kandoh@reddthat.com
    51·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      22·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • kandoh@reddthat.com
        21·
        7 days ago

        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.

        • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          11·
          7 days ago

          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.

          • kandoh@reddthat.com
            11·
            7 days ago

            1. They wouldn’t be voting on Trump nominees if Trump didn’t win

            2. The Democrats are a coalition that includes conservative and centrists as well as leftists. Their presence isn’t a reason to hand total control to party that instituted a muslim ban.

            They’re not an opposition party and voting for them would have the same outcome

            Oh clearly, they’d be firing hundreds of thousands of public servants, specifically black and women as DEI. 🙄

            I was good and answered your questions. You should answer mine, I’m incredibly curious about what an intelligent person thought and thinks will happen to the Palestinians now that the racist sexist paty has total control, and why you think that outcome wasn’t worth preventing.

            Also, a little Wikipedia history lesson for you 🧠🔥

            During the Weimar Republic, the left-wing political spectrum was divided between the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). This division significantly weakened the left and indirectly facilitated the rise of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

            The KPD viewed the SPD as “social fascists” and prioritized opposing them over combating the Nazis. The KPD believed that the collapse of the Weimar Republic under Nazi rule would hasten a communist revolution. This ideological stance led them to refuse collaboration with the SPD against the Nazis, even during critical elections and political crises[1][4][6].

            This lack of unity between leftist parties created a fragmented opposition, which allowed the Nazis to consolidate power more effectively. The SPD, while supporting democracy, was unable to counter both the far-right and far-left threats simultaneously[1][3].

            Citations: [1] Weimar and Nazi Germany (1918-1939): Political Parties … - Tutor2u https://www.tutor2u.net/history/reference/political-parties-of-the-weimar-republic [2] Reasons the support of the Nazi Party grew - WJEC - BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zp34srd/revision/2 [3] The role of political instability in the Nazi rise to power https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-nazi-rise-to-power/the-nazi-rise-to-power/the-role-of-political-instability/ [4] Weimar political parties - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_political_parties [5] Were the Nazis Socialists? | Britannica https://www.britannica.com/story/were-the-nazis-socialists [6] The Weimar Republic - Holocaust Encyclopedia https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-weimar-republic [7] Weimar Democracy in Crisis - State of Deception: The Power of Nazi … https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/propaganda/1918-1933/weimar-democracy-in-crisis [8] Political instability in the Weimar Republic - The Holocaust Explained https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-nazi-rise-to-power/the-weimar-republic/political-instability/

            • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              11·
              7 days ago
              1. They wouldn’t be voting on Trump nominees if Trump didn’t win

              They would be enacting the same agenda. Genocide, anti immigrant, anti trans. They’re a fraudulent party.

              1. The Democrats are a coalition that includes conservative and centrists as well as leftists. Their presence isn’t a reason to hand total control to party that instituted a muslim ban.

              Which is why there’s no point in voting for them because they don’t stand for shit.

              Oh clearly, they’d be firing hundreds of thousands of public servants, specifically black and women as DEI. 🙄

              What musk is doing is completely illegal. What are the democrats doing to stop it? ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY NOTHING!!!

              Don’t give me a fucking “history lesson” about the Weimar Republic you dumb fucking liberal. The liberals fought the communists and enabled the fascists. You seemed to learn all the wrong lessons just like the complicit democrat collaborators.

              • kandoh@reddthat.com
                21·
                7 days ago

                The dodging of the previous question is so loud it’s deafening.

                You don’t actually think your decision would produce better material results. You cared only for the emotional kick you’re getting out of it, you’re addicted to youe brain’s own stress chemicals.

                You must’ve felt so empty during the Biden administration and didn’t know why. Then Oct 7th happened and BAM your brain floods with norepinephrine and GABA with a little seratonin chaser. You wanted more and more! Just gaza wasn’t enough for you, they had to fuck up the west bank too! Shit bring it all home! The worse the news gets the better your high!!!

                Don’t give me a fucking “history lesson” about the Weimar Republic you dumb fucking liberal. The liberals fought the communists and enabled the fascists.

                I cited my sources, you didn’t. My beliefs are based in reality, yours are based one whichever gives you the most cortisol.

                • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  1·
                  7 days ago

                  You’re literally a lib with a horrific misunderstanding of history.

                  https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-liberal-accord-with-nazism-1.711626

                  https://jacobin.com/2015/11/nuremberg-trials-hitler-goebbels-himmler-german-communist-social-democrats/

                  The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) understood what sort of threat the NSDAP posed, yet failed to put up the kind of fight necessary to stop them. In a desperate attempt to block the Nazis from taking power through legal means and save Weimar democracy, the SPD pursued a strategy of supporting the “lesser evil” — i.e., the current right-wing, authoritarian government — as a bulwark against Hitler (who would certainly be even more right wing and authoritarian).

                  This entailed support for the candidacy of archconservative Hindenburg in the 1932 presidential election and toleration of Brüning and von Papen’s authoritarian presidential cabinets, as well as the tax hikes and spending cuts they enacted.  The strategy ran counter to the party’s political program, not to mention the material interests of its supporters.

                  The weakness of this strategy was particularly obvious on July 20, 1932, when Chancellor von Papen dissolved the SPD-led government in Prussia, the largest state in the republic. The SPD had already organized workers’ militias for precisely such a situation, the so-called Iron Front, a year earlier. But when faced with an actual confrontation the party leadership abandoned armed resistance, instead urging calm and restraint.

                  The German trade union confederation (ADGB) followed a similar path. Many trade unionists were also SPD members and supported the lesser evil strategy, tolerating Hindenburg’s government in hopes of stopping the Nazis through constitutional means. Consequentially, they also refrained from calling for a general strike in Prussia in 1932.

                  …

                  Thus, most Communists no longer knew Social Democrats as work colleagues, but only as supporters of the lesser-evil strategy and events like “Bloody May” on May 1, 1929, when police under the command of Social Democrat Karl Friedrich Zörgiebel violently suppressed a KPD-led demonstration.

                  Accentuating the blockade was the SPD leadership’s outright refusal to collaborate with the Communists. The SPD at the time was consumed by an anti-Communist fervor, often equating Communism with Nazism. Party Chairman Otto Wels declared at the Leipzig party convention in 1931 that “Bolshevism and fascism are brothers. They are both founded on violence and dictatorship, regardless of how socialist or radical they may appear.”

                  …

                  Trotsky and Thalheimer’s appeals for a united front were well-received by workers and intellectuals, as the popular desire for unity in the face of the growing Nazi threat was understandably widespread. This desire could be seen in the “Urgent Call for Unity” issued by thirty-three well-known public intellectuals including Albert Einstein in the run-up to the 1932 elections, calling for the KPD and SPD to “finally take a step toward building a united labor front, which is necessary not just for parliamentary, but for additional defense as well.”

                  Like I said, the liberals sided with “lesser evil” fascists than work with communists until the very end.

                  • kandoh@reddthat.com
                    11·
                    7 days ago

                    Homie, in this scenario you are the one who supported the nazi party through your inaction.

                    I didn’t pick the center right or far right option over the far left. I choose the furthest left option that was offered to me each time.

                    Let me reiterate that:

                    I support the most leftist candidate in evety single election I have the opportunity to participate in. You stay home and let the furthest right candidate win.

                    What do you think happens when a party in a polarized system like the US loses? They shift their positions closer to the the party that beat them.

                    You want to know why there is no decent left-wing party in the US? Because Ronald Reagan in the 80s beat them so badly they had to run breakneck speed to the right to win back voters.

                    When the Democratic party loses, they don’t think ‘Boy golly, i guess I better try to appeal to the leftists who statistically hardly ever participate in elections’ they think ‘I need to be more like the winner.’

                    Also: answer the fucking questions