Brain Drain : politicalmemes

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

Please please, also run to Canada, were closer by

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 13 minutes ago

I'm worried that if there's war you guys will be affected as well. Running further seems more reasonable.

[+] levzzz@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

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[+] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml -12 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Don't think you white folk don't realise Europe has no real power anymore and shifting to facism. America has military hegemony, but not science or manufacturing, and again falling to facism and corporations.

Real power is moving to where stuff is getting made and leaving thode with bullshit over inflation like Tesla, or many other stocks. The current center of economic power has moved closer and closer to where it was 500 years ago.

[–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The EU has the second biggest economy in the world and contains 3 of the G7 nations (4 if you include the UK, which will almost certainly pivot back to EU membership in the next few years). All member states are part of NATO and France, Germany and the UK possess a significant nuclear arsenal.

But yeh, no real power.

PS 500 years ago, the economic power was Western European countries like France, England, Portugal, Spain.

[+] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml -6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

500 years ago, the economic power was Western European countries like France, England, Portugal, Spain.

Ps, you're so confidently wrong. 1525 the economic powers of the world were India and china https://www.businessinsider.com/mckinsey-worlds-economic-center-of-gravity-2012-6

Here's a nice graphic to make it easy for your Eurocentric mind to comprehend

second biggest economy

Bud how put of date your knowledge is? You from the 90s? Name the top 5 in order of GDP? Go ahead. Please. I know you're speaking of Germany but please try and back it up it in 2025 that they are the second biggest economy lmao

Also is Europe getting richer, is American or European manufacturing improving? No, it's going towards china, towards India, towards Africa. Europe became rich because of hundreds of years of exploitation and another 100 years of soft power to ensure cheap resources than be taken to Europe/America, produce high quality and sent back. Problem is, the world is now able to do a lot of it itself and Asia can make everything it needs and give to all other Asian and African Nations.

Military threat, yeah, 100% that's all Europe has, that's how you become rich was bombing and exploiting others. But the suprise factor is gone, nobody trusts you guys, look at the trade map, you think you're gonna challenge this?

https://howmuch.net/articles/trade-timelapse-usa-china

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 55 minutes ago

I know you're speaking of Germany

Nope, they very clearly said The EU and not Germany, which is accurate. The EU is behind the US and in front of China in GDP, firm second place.

What's up with .ml users being shit with reading comprehension?

[–] crazyhotpasta@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Go back to reddit ffs :D

[+] missandry351@lemmings.world -10 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Just give a year or two and brains will be fleeing EU also

[–] nodiratime@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why would they?

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 7 points 4 hours ago

Here in Germany, we will have a conservative government at best and a fascist one at worst. AFD is at 20% at national levels, and locally they are winning in the East, which I, naive and wrongly motivated as I was, moved to from merry Bavaria.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Where, though? Moon?

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

They are smart aren't they

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I’d say we are in an odd position. I don’t know when you last attended a PhD ceremony, but in engineering, over half were foreigners. The US already had a brain drain, by not producing top notch scientists and engineers. This is only exacerbating the issue.

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope this is true, with the attacks on science in the US, we’re really looking at falling backward here. I’m afraid we’ll lose good weather forecasting and GPS services very soon, to just name the low hanging fruit.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If only there was something the American people could do about this.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

But they’re holding signs up‽

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 21 hours ago

That's how Americans exercise their 2nd amendment outside of their schools.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago

If you wear a pink shirt, it shows you're extra super serious.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They skipped the part where after the war we took the nazi scientists too...

But the old nazis were really into science, modern nazis not so much.

I don't think other countries are going to be chasing our science deniers like we chased rocket and medical scientists after the war.

[–] PeripheralGhost@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Operation Paperclip

[–] errer@lemmy.world 31 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

You don’t think Europe wants our 19 year old whiz kids whose laptops overheat from processing excel files?

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[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

I don't think other countries are going to be chasing our science deniers like we chased rocket and medical scientists after the war.

Well...hopefully they'll get chased. Just not for the same reasons.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 23 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

1945-1959: Same as 1930s but the scientist guy is also a Nazi (and Hitler has a bullet hole lmao)

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 27 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I'm an ignorant American, what's the significance of the bull/ox?

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

That woman on the bull is Europa (Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē), daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, lived about 2000 BCE. The bull is the shapeshifted Zeus that is kidnapping Europa. They had sex and sired Minos, king of Crete. Minos is the one who feed the Minotaur by sending children into its labyrinth.

Yeah Greek mythology is weird.

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

O Gabriel, now dawns thy reckoning, and thy gore shall GLISTEN before the temples of Man!

[–] alp@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Well that is a healthy family for sure

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

The bull that fathered the Minotaur was not Zeus, it was a gift by Poseidon who expected king Minos to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon. The king kept the gift and sacrificed another bull, Poseidon got pissed and had the king's wife screw the bull, giving birth to the Minotaur.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

You know, I watched that show Netflix canceled, with Jeff Goldblum, and so I'm like, hey, that's right! Sure, could've paid attention in school, but better Nate than lever.

[–] asqapro@reddthat.com 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Kaos is the show you’re thinking of.

The Longest Joke in the World is the Nate and lever reference (well worth the read).

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Thanks, for some reason I was thinking Cronos, I dunno.

And yeah, I remember reading that joke what feels like 20 years ago at this point, someone put it in the ebaums forums, took like 20 separate posts because of char limits, and I couldn't stop telling the joke to people after that, it's just too perfect.

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