Republican efforts to destroy science continue apace..

[Dauphin]

Maybe he believes that the UK can take credit for Australia's contributions? Honestly, it was mostly the Kuomintang in China who fought the Japanese prior to December 1941.

Who did the Americans fight before December 1941?

[kentonio]

Are you making the claim that all government sponsored research is very valuable?

Nope, just that letting random people decide what is and isn't going to be useful is probably going to lead to a pretty ****ty system.

[kentonio]

Maybe he believes that the UK can take credit for Australia's contributions? Honestly, it was mostly the Kuomintang in China who fought the Japanese prior to December 1941.

Cool, so you know **** all about WW2 as well. Good to know.

[DinoDoc]

Who did the Americans fight before December 1941?

The Germans and the Japanese.

[Sava]

Please don't get me wrong. I'm not a big fan of Government fingers in most places. Politics usually means not the best solution but compromise. And in the case of this OP, I'm not saying that the government deciding is necessarily better, but that politics would be involved regardless of the process so I doubt it would be that much worse.

I'm just teasing you.

[Dinner]

Why do the Koch Brothers support PBS?

Simple, to fight global warming/climate change sooner or later there will have to be a carbon tax to reduce the consumption of hydrocarbons. They make their money selling hydrocarbons (they own their father's oil company which is the largest privately held company in the country) so they're against anything which would decrease their profits. It's naked self interest mixed in with an extremist political ideology and a dash of megalomania.

[Dinner]

Let me know when you've paid us back for WWI and WWII.

That was back in like 2005 or something. Do keep up.

[The Mad Monk]

x-'d

[Dinner]

Yes, indeed. They just have a "I want mine and **** everyone else" philosophy along with a desire to enforce their own political ideology on to everyone else. That, mixed with megalomania, is indeed the motivation for most of the billionaire donors who are always involved in politics. They want to control the levers of power via their money. It's rather natural for a filthy rich trust fund baby who has an outsized opinion of their own self importance, really.

[The Mad Monk]

...and that's why they support the Public Broadcasting System?

[Dinner]

Face it, the reason they want to remove the peer review requirement for government science funding and outlaw the fact checking of other's claims is because they're upset that their bull****, anti-science, global climate change denial nonsense keeps getting fact checked by scientists and found to be nonsense. They would love for the last real reality check, the one performed by scientists, to just go away so they can continue with their fact free political bull**** propaganda.

[Dinner]

...and that's why they support the Public Broadcasting System?

A tiny, tiny, tiny amount and, like just about everything they do, it is motivated by self interest and a desire to influence programming. They tried real hard to push NPR and PBS away from objective journalism, even getting Congressmen to write legislation trying to force them to broadcast fact free political propaganda (which luckily failed), but their personal self interests trump just about everything else. Their "charitable giving" is just a way for them to push their agenda which is "I got mine, **** everyone else".

[Dauphin]

The Germans and the Japanese.

Don't be obtuse and miss the point.

[dannubis]

Don't be obtuse and miss the point.

Sorry, but now you are asking intellectual honesty from him.

[DinoDoc]

Don't be obtuse and miss the point.

The point I was making is that the US can hardly be said to have been out of the war given that it was providing millions of dollars in weapons, armament as well as money itself to the Allied forces prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.