• iglou@programming.dev
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    3 hours ago

    Scaring scientists away is a good thing? Or do you mean that’s more scientists for the rest of the world? Or are you simply a bigot implying that chinese-descent scientists surely are spies?

    • يا ليتني كوري شمالي @lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      Almost everyone else understood what I meant. But I could have phrased it better, sorry.

      Weakening the US is the good thing and Trump’s accidental win. It goes without saying that Sinophobia and other forms of racism and bigotry is not a good thing.

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      They’re happy about US decline because it means less power to murder people abroad

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        If that is the idea then I’m behind it! Unfortunately too many bigots out there for me to assume that.

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          Fair enough, if I hadn’t seen that user comment before I might have been unable to tell too