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Scientists left nazi germany for the US, now they'll leave nazi US.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pediatric. Oncologist. That dude is an absolute hero and treasure for taking on such a horrible and bleak profession. I hate that those words are combined in existence at all. God I'm so ashamed to be an American.

[–] Necroscope0@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some people are built different. My dad worked as a pediatric hospice nurse for almost 10 years. Talk about a shitty sad job. Every single patient is a child and every single one of them is GOING to die on your watch. Fuck THAT. I do not know how he did it.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 0 points 5 days ago

Now that is a hero

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They are just doctors. No need to glorify them. They do no more or less than a bus driver. Most jobs have an emotional toll.

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Let's agree to disagree. I respect bus drivers as much as you do. Some people, however, have a greater positive effect on humanity as a whole, and that deserves its own form of respect.

[–] misteloct@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Agreed, I would be equally angry if a bus driver were detained by ICE. Their immigrants status and then solidarity is more important than their profession.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It seems like the administration is trying to discourage travel across the border. Not just people on work visas, tourists and even citizens are reporting being detained. It's like East Germany or something.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hold up, tourists? Are we safe to visit family?

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

Bruh, ask your consulate

[–] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Citizens too? I've not heard of that. Scary

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I read it yesterday I think. US citizen lives in Las Vegas and her German boyfriend comes to visit. They travel to Mexico and then were both detained on the way back in. She was released within days, he spent weeks even after volunteering to just go back to Germany. Fucking nuts.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thats fucked, I'm gonna look for that story. I've been seeing lots of stuff (even locally in a relatively progressive state) about trans folks' documents being confiscated and/or destroyed when they try to leave or get a new or updated passport or sometimes other docs iirc. Please don't come here, to anyone thinking about it. Period. Unless you're planning to stay a while and help us out, I don't recommend it but we will be needing all the help we can get :(

[–] Apple87sagan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

This is a sign we are collapasing. When the smart people wanna leave we are left with a bunch of narrow minded, uneducated people.

[–] xye@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

Extremely sad news, this is what an authoritarian state looks like for anyone who still didn’t believe it. Wish them all the best wherever they land.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago

Why would the US need scientists when they have stable geniuses?

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US is trading science and reason for zeal and faith. At least the scientists will be welcomed in the EU.

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why did they leave the EU in the first place

[–] juanito_the_great@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I seriously considered it at some point, as in my (former) field many top researchers lived in Philly, New York, Boston + Toronto. Becoming a top researcher means travelling where other top researchers are. It was definitely not about money, pay is often equivalent between the EU and the US.

Eventually decided it was not worth it for me (had other priorities in life), but this is a sacrifice many EU researchers make (or should I say, made) to become top researchers.

Didn't Albert Einstein flee Nazi Germany which advanced our research into what became the atomic bomb. Hmm... Should be fun century for USA.

[–] Loce@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Time for scientists to leave the nazi country, just like they left nazi Germany in the 30s and 40s

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is the title a pun on "depart-ment of education"?

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

It's from a presidential directive for dissolving the "Departmen of Education"

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well if you don't like what's happening... before trump it was very extreme letting too many people in unobserved, and now we have it the other way. If the laws concerning immigration had just been respected in the first place, this probably wouldn't be happening the way it is now.

(I'm not taking sides here, just making an observation.)

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The US immigration system has been broken for decades, as a everytime a Democrat tries to fix it, the Republicans refused, to the point the democrats started getting Republicans authoring laws to fix the problems, and AGAIN the Republicans refuse, then we had Republicans author their own bills 100% and the Republicans REFUSED to fix it.

People as fucking stupid as you are why. ''Well why didn't they just follow the law'' because THE SYSTEM IS INTENTIONALLY BROKEN YOU FUCKING IDIOT, FAMILIES ARE GETTING DESTROYED AND PEOPLE ARE DYING WHILE YOUR DUMB ASS FAILS TO PAY ANY ATTENTION PAST ''oh gee golly why didn't they just do it legally'' 90% + of immigrants come on legally. How do they get illegal? They need a hearing. With an immigration judge, where are those? Oh... we don't have enough by the 100s. How far back is the backlog for immigration hearings? Oh its thousands of cases? Who represents people who need representation that our laws require they have? No, no, we don't have attorneys, that's not important. Just have the 5 year old that no one has any documentation on represent themselves? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense let's do that.

Wait in line properly? BUILD THE FUCKING LINE!!!!!

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

Anyone who says its all one side's fault, is not being honest. Chill out.