Post AXnpQBCfItYc9IbZ4a by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AXnpDWge7K6d0xavJo by alexwild@mastodon.online
       2023-07-18T00:35:46Z
       
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       The challenge faced by science in the United States isn’t that scientists are awkward and bad at communication. It’s that we’re beset by propaganda and mass media channels funded by corrupt billionaires to sow confusion. We need big, generously funded communications channels dedicated to verifiable reality. Scientists who are slightly better at talking isn’t going to cut it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXnpDw9DSEoVyo9aoy by Rjdlandscapes@mastodon.nz
       2023-07-18T00:54:28Z
       
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       @alexwild What kind of funding does science get that can compete with this?https://www.desmog.com/2023/06/29/rishi-sunak-boasts-that-oil-funded-think-tank-helped-us-draft-crackdown-on-climate-protests/
       
 (DIR) Post #AXnpMpKy92brSotG8e by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
       2023-07-18T00:58:30Z
       
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       @Rjdlandscapes @alexwild nothing.  The wealthy have had plenty of opportunity to change course, and nothing is going to change it but forcibly removing them from their positions.  We keep banging our own heads against the table, wondering when it'll stop hurting.  We have to change what _we're_ doing, because they sure as fuck won't
       
 (DIR) Post #AXnpQBCfItYc9IbZ4a by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
       2023-07-18T00:40:43Z
       
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       @alexwild Agreed. Instead, we get overmoneyed dipshits sinking their un-earned lucre into stupid fucking bullshit like Threads
       
 (DIR) Post #AXnpQDJ7TruOftdkPY by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
       2023-07-18T00:40:59Z
       
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       @alexwild Which I firmly consider to be an act of war in the form of resilience targeting
       
 (DIR) Post #AXnpXq3tn5mWtf9lr6 by Rjdlandscapes@mastodon.nz
       2023-07-18T01:00:27Z
       
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       @fcktheworld587 @alexwild Your existence is something they are willingly happy to sacrifice..
       
 (DIR) Post #AXnsFwPXkJfJEpRDWq by freemo@qoto.org
       2023-07-18T01:30:51Z
       
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       @alexwild I agree. But when you fac3 anti-science from both the left and the right a task like that seems impossible.