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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
May 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
— Dani Rodrik (@drodrik.bsky.social) 2025-05-22T23:09:17.050Z

wcmagumba
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mahatmakanejeeves
(64,738 posts)no_hypocrisy
(51,666 posts)Easy to become rich and powerful when you don't have the expense of salaries and incarcerated employees.
elocs
(24,374 posts)I like how Canada refers to them calling them the "First Nations".
The European settlers even used germ warfare against them giving them smallpox infected blankets.
applegrove
(126,146 posts)We use "First Nations" or "indigenous" But I've heard native Americans say indigenous could be anyone living on deep ancestral lands anywhere in the world so they like "native" because it implies them specifically.
elocs
(24,374 posts)It has a sense of dignity to it.
applegrove
(126,146 posts)our teachers would call First Nations people "sauvages".
mopinko
(72,577 posts)applegrove
(126,146 posts)who could be Democrats. All these groups could include people from the middle class who did well. People who knew where they came from and not people in the Billionaire Oligarch bubble (which is different than the MAGA bubble in that the oligarchs are exploiting and taking the wealth of the regular MAGA people and taught never to give to charity as any growing middle class is the enemy).
JoseBalow
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