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large portions of america are anti-intellectual but i truly fail to see how you could have missed that from movies

> large portions of america are anti-intellectual

Large portions of the world are anti-intellectual, at the same time intellectuals are often much worse than the average person and frequently do deserve scorn as a class of people in society.

China is not anti-intellectual in the same way. I remember watching Xi’s new year speech a few years ago and he was highlighting specific scientific achievements, talking about astronauts, it was very different from a US presidential speech

Well Biden can't really give a speech due to being undeniably old to the point of incoherence (what led to him dropping his candidacy). Trump did Operation Warpspeed and created Space Force, and openly talked about that, he also openly supports Elon Musk running his own scientific enterprises. So I'm not sure what the argument is for America not talking about its own scientific achievements.

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