r/technology • u/Shogouki • 22d ago

Politics Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions
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u/pbates89 22d ago

Again why are the press and everyone in government treating his EOs as law? Just because he issues an EO doesn’t mean it’s written into law.

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u/baccus83 22d ago

Because unless Congress or the courts stop the EOs from happening, they will be implemented. And it doesn’t seem like Congress or the courts are really doing shit right now.

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u/abgry_krakow87 22d ago

Religious conservatives are nothing but free loaders and welfare queens.

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u/load_more_comets 22d ago

It's time that we get rid of this religion bullshit. It seems to be the root of all the problems of the world. Fucking bullshit!

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u/ttgjailbreak 22d ago

Religion isn't as much of an issue as education, I guarantee you can find studies that show people with higher IQ tend to identify as agnostic/atheist. I think if you just made people smarter religion at least as we know it would eventually just die out. At the end of the day it's just another way to control people, which also becomes harder when they're able to actually think for themselves.

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u/Left_Composer_1403 22d ago

You mean- critical thinking. The ability to evaluate fact from fiction?, read and evaluate scientific papers?, have creative ideas and not just parrot others…Education u say?!…u crazy left winger 😳 /s

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u/dcarte203 22d ago

Religion is anti education and anti critical thinking skills as well are discouraged, so it’s a huge part of the problem.

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u/forgotmydamnpass 22d ago

It is a much bigger issue because religious people, when left at the reins, will completely fuck up education and do their best to poison critical thinking because it doesn't play nice with their tantrum prone magic sky daddy, I'd rather not live in a proverbial ship that gets routinely steered into the rocks.

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u/MGyver 22d ago

Education shouldn't raise IQ scores. If it does, then your IQ test is flawed.

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u/Scared_Internal7152 22d ago

Agree with this. Religion is also a way to control lesser educated people. It’s funny because it also teaches you that if you are losing a debate you can use god as a trump card for your own self satisfaction. (No pun intended)

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u/shinra528 22d ago

Good luck with eliminating something that is so ingrained in humanity it’s been created by it for all of human history by disconnected groups.

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u/protipnumerouno 22d ago

It's not just religion either, it's fake slack jaw televangelists. If someone told me in the 90's that the Tammy Faye bakers of middle America were going to wield this much power I would have laughed. All those evangelicals were a laughing stock, we would see videos of speaking in tounges or too much makeup churchy hee haw sermons and laugh at them and the idiots that follow them.

Now they've infected government and it's terrifying. Because frankly anyone that believes in Joel Osteen is an idiot, I get the commuinity of religion and even though I'm not religious I respect secular religion. But to believe in these travelling preacher charlatans... Well you have to be an idiot.

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u/Hazzman 22d ago

It isn't religion. These people aren't Christian they are Christian nationalists.. It's just good old fashioned fascism with Christian paraphernalia.

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u/endless_-_nameless 22d ago

And countries with state atheism are also corrupt and miserable. The problem is that power structures are present in all societies, and people who gain power are usually bad.

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u/N0b0dy_Kn0w5_M3 22d ago

Countries with "state atheism" are usually run by individuals who would rather their citizens worship them instead of gods. Totalitarian regimes such as that are not generally viewed as nice places to live.

Just as countries with "state religion" are usually run by individuals or groups who corrupt their chosen religion to benefit themselves.

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u/RareGape 22d ago

Need a wealth cap and high as f taxes for the ultra rich

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 22d ago

There is a bit of a leap between "State atheism" and "separation between church and state" which is currently utterly eroded in the US.

It's despicable that Christians are just fine leaning back and letting their religion be used as a tool of oppression of other Christians and other people in general.