Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants

This is a tragedy. Our pre-eminence as a scientific and industrial powerhouse that really began post WWII is now disintegrating because of the actions of a few. The funding being pulled from Terence Tao and his institute without due process is not the start, it's merely one casualty among many that began at the start of this administration. This is like cutting one's nose to spite one's face.

Punishing urban intellectuals for being urban intellectuals appears to be a common theme in a lot of right wing American messaging and the Republican Party won the popular vote.

You can’t put this on a few. It’s the genuine desire of the American voter.

A majority of the voters voted for people other than Trump.

Edit: come on people, read things in context. I was responding to someone who was implying that a majority of American voters support this. To support that assertion about any President's policies at a minimum you need that President to have received a majority of the popular vote.

When third parties get enough votes that a President gets a plurality but not a majority you can't really infer anything about what a majority of voters want.

Even if all the third parties were on the same side of the left/right spectrum as the President's party you can't infer much because if those voters agreed with most or all of the President's policies they would have voted for the President.

49,8% popular vote, 50,2 is a majority but at that point I would say it’s clearly half the American population that wanted him in power.

They're technically correct (the best kind etc) because they said "voted for people other than Trump" not "voted for Harris".

Voted for Trump: 77.3M

Voted for Harris: 75M

Voted for other candidates: 2.6M

Harris + others = 77.6M, which is greater than Trump's 77.3M

That's not even technically correct unless you assume every non Trump candidate was left wing.