You know, DOGE, fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored. Is there any way out of that or is it over? Is the USA done?

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    technology (…) being suppressed

    What technology or technology development is being suppressed?

    The USA are still leading in most technological fields and have a dominant position.

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      The US does not have a dominant position in:

      microchips.

      batteries.

      solar.

      material science.

      fusion.

      energy.

      computer science.

      automotive.

      displays.

      The list goes on.

      If you still think the USA is leading in tech, you are sorely misinformed about the state of the technological world(to be fair, it Is startling how rapidly the US has fallen out of grace in many of these technological fields).

      The US is either barely clinging to previous legacies of prowess in tech fields to match other countries or falling behind rapidly, and without innovative latitude, federal grants or funding for research, they’re falling behind even further.

      the US does not have the technological edge it once did; scientists, officials from the department of defense, everybody in the know agrees and have been making public statements about how quickly the US is falling behind in critical scientific and technological fields.

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        The US is still leading in aerospace and defense. Boeing is in a slump, but military planes are top notch. SpaceX is a decade ahead of the global competition at least.

        computer science

        All the biggest and leading companies in that area are still based in the US. American companies dominate the market for software and internet services. The possibly most disruptive technology AI is also firmly in the hands of the USA.

        You’re also missing biotechnology as another key sector, where the US is doing very well.

        the US does not have the technological edge it once did;

        That much is clear. It’s still doing very good though.

        The amount of money spent on R&D is still huge in the USA and it attracts top minds from across the globe.

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            a private company innovated aerospace technology despite the US government’s reluctance to invest in aerospace technology.

            Huh? The US government paying SpaceX made it possible to succeed in the first place. That’s literally the US investing in aerospace tech.

            US dod officials have been very clearly saying for Over a decade that the US might already be behind China in key areas of defense

            China is catching up, but still behind in defense and aerospace technology. The one area they are ahead is industrial capacity to build, especially ships. China builds a huge number of civilian and military ships.

            despite spending 4 to 10 times as much on their defense budget

            Wages, manufacturing, etc. are all far more expensive in the US. It’s also much easier and cheaper to copy someone else’s design than to discover and build for the first time.

            they cannot even compete with a free operating system

            Microsoft has good support for Linux nowadays with Windows services for Linux and Azure Linux for example. On the desktop Microsoft Windows is still leading in market share and Microsoft Office is dominating as well.

            Where are the biggest Linux companies located?

            Apple? they haven’t been innovative in 15 years, depend on slave labor

            Apple’s AR/VR is innovative, if not particularly successful in the market. Their M-series chips are among the best chip available. Very fast with low power use.

            Apple makes their products in same factories (Foxconn etc) as other companies. So the labor conditions aren’t unique to Apple at all.

            it’s not leading in manufacturing, it’s not leading in most sciences, and it has one of the most awful education systems in the world, not to mention the living affordability crisis going on.

            I mostly agree. The quality of the US education system is similar to the health care system. The US has some of the best education and health care in the world. However, it’s neither cheap nor affordable for the majority of the population.

            you can’t do science without funding and support, and dumps has taken that funding away, and importantly does not believe in science or the benefits of research and development.

            I agree mostly. Regarding funding under Trump, we will see. Elon Musk certainly know about R&D costs and benefits and is influential.

            meanwhile, other countries are investing record amounts and setting technological records in innovative technologies like solar that the US has no hope of catching up to in the near future.

            Yes, other countries are catching up steadily overall and are ahead in some areas, especially China.