Let the world have America’s brightest since maga and the corporations do not appreciate them

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    Didn’t germany also experience severe brain drain around, oh, the late 1930s or so?

    Something about … people with the common sense and sufficient means to survive elsewhere fleeing in droves because they saw the writing on the wall and knew shit was about to get ugly?

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      That’s how the world got international style architecture and modernist design. All those left-leaning Bauhäuslers who literally didn’t have a future in the thousand-year Reich.

      Apparently the largest collection of Bauhaus architecture is in Tel Aviv.

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        12 days ago

        that was a thousand years? dang, reich-years make dog-years look like an eternity!

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      Read your physics textbook. There were so many S tier German physicists in the first part of the twentieth century. They remade physics in their own image.

      And a whole bunch of them left in the 30s. Quite a few ended up working on the Manhattan project. Werner Heisenberg didn’t leave, and eventually headed up the Nazi nuclear weapons program.