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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    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.

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      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.

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        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

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          I don’t owe you shit debate me bro and I’m so fucking sick of fucking out to brunch liberals who stupidly think these people give a flying fuck about their law and order and decorum.

          The SDP put the nazis in power by supporting the “lesser evil” conservatives over the communists.(sound familiar?) In America, the democrat party put the fascists in power by rigging the 2016 and 2020 primaries away from Bernie. They handed trump the election in 2016 and 2024, and had covid never happened trump would have won in 2020 unless the democrats also ran a populist. When Obama bailed out Wall Street in 2008 instead of Main Street he created the material conditions that allows fascism to accelerate. And he did a great job closing Guantánamo - soon to be a concentration camp for migrants and god knows who else. And all the executive branch power grabs since I’ve been alive that congress and the judiciary never bothered to stop. There’s been so many fucking off ramps missed that it’s intentional at this point. The wealthy want to kill most of us “useless eaters” off and rule the rubble in their “network states”. You don’t fucking get it and never fucking will. You’re a smug fucking liberal who doesn’t listen to marginalized people with the generational trauma of genocide no less.

          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.’

          God you’re so fucking dumb. What a winning fucking strategy. Are you a fucking boomer? What the fuck is this “yeah ratcheting to the right is a great idea! Let’s be fascist lite!” Fucking mask off moment right there! Thanks for proving my point about the democrats being UTTERLY FUCKING USELESS TO VOTE FOR. vote for the party of stabbing instead of shooting! Fuck outta here you weirdo debate me bro

          THE DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RISE OF TRUMP AND THE FASCISTS. THEY ARE A CONTROLLED OPPOSITION PARTY CURRENTLY CONFIRMING HIS NOMINEES THEY WON’T EVEN DO THE BARE MINIMUM AND OBSTRUCT. THE DEMOCRATS ARE COMPLICIT AND COMPLACENT IN GENOCIDE AND THE RISE OF FASCISM. THE TECHNOLOGY USED IN PALESTINE WILL BE USED AGAINST US NEXT. THE DEMOCRATS WONT SAVE YOU BUT WILL INSTEAD GIVE A LEGAL PATH TO THE FASCISTS TO HUNT YOU DOWN AND MURDER YOU.

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            6 days ago

            Answer the question or admit you’re an unhinged cortisol addict who is literally getting off on the thought of pain and suffering being brought down on you and everyone else.

            Seriously, just re-read your responses. Just progressively more and more doomerism the more I corner you. You have no hope or plan for the future outside of accepting the boot on your neck and getting frothing mad at the people trying actually to prevent the backsliding into fascism.

            I am looking for a path forward, while you are giving up and embracing defeat.

            Answer the question. Not for me, but for your own personal growth.

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              I don’t owe you shit debate me bro. Fuck off. Blocked.

              Keep supporting fascists and their collaborators, dipshit.

              I get “frothing mad” at people who support FASCIST COLLABORATORS thinking they’re “helping”