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By contrast, we think the way to get more prosperity is to do more of the things that made America prosperous in the past.

Like not wage foreign wars?

Yes: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/monroe. That’s a central fissure between new right conservatives and the neocons that embrace liberal internationalism.

Oh you mean like funding science? Dumbass.

This is funding science. Literally just reallocating funding from one part of the pipeline to another.

You have to fund both ends of the pipeline or it dries up. You can't just fund the money end and expect money to pour out forever.

> We think these are related, just like you do.

Oh, we're all well aware that you think hurting people is the only way to improve the country.

> The difference is that you assume that hurting billionaires will improve America while we assume that hurting NGOs and postmodernist academics will do so.

Don't you know that lying is a sin? You can't even define "postmodernist". No. I've heard this screeching noise you're making many times but it always boils down to the same truth: you don't believe in hurting "postmodernist academics", you believe in hurting people who aren't straight, white, christians.