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Sunday, 16 Mar 2025
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The joke is US politics.
It’s referencing the Trump Administration cutting off federal grants for current research.
Why? I don’t bloody know, but Trump better hope he doesn’t need anything that said research was looking for
MAGA hates science and experts
Trump. The joke is Trump and his conservative party (or generally conservative people/parties in charge). They are taking away funding from universities for doing research they don’t like (and possibly don’t understand) and only like research that supports their agenda.
EDIT: Paul Noth is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, so it is Trump.
Man I miss read the Neanderthals as the Netherlands and got REALLY confused
This is an insult to Neanderthals. They had their own research and inventions going on!
one word. trump.
Trump and Elon are Neanderthals who have gutted American science among other progress
People who want joke explained…
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Us…this is us.
Trump/Elon D.O.G.E cut funding to a bunch of Science research.
This is a massive setback for society.
[learn more.](https://youtu.be/w6WMuW5vIj4?si=IP-26rSQ87WyUy8Q)
Warning; source is political.
Sounds about right. Sigh…
Being on the cusp of a breakthrough invention that will change mankind forever….only to have it halted because the stupid Party is back in power, and it’ll make caveman Libs cry…
Murica.
Republicans in charge pulled government funding that is necessary to complete research that furthers society.
It’s the power struggle of who is in charge vs R&D of new ideas reliant on funding from said power. Literally everywhere, developing a new process in your field, only to have funding cut due to a power shift in hierarchy.
Rejecting progress and going back to darker ages, opposite of progress.
It was probably the other way around
Sorry but if you don’t get it, you might just be part of the problem
Conservatives are rarted
This is what the cartoon is referring to:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/07/nih-terminates-dei-transgender-related-research-grants/
I’ve seen lists of words sent out that have to be removed from research. It basically kneecaps social science research completely. It isn’t just the words “DEI” or “diversity, equity, inclusion”. They have to avoid using words like “socioeconomic status.” Anything that would acknowledge the current disparities in our country basically.
Spouses colleague in linguistics had their research funding blocked. They are studying Gender Verbs.
Edit: Typed Nouns when I meant Verbs (Spanish).
Looks like we’re back to the stone age! Hopefully, the next step is discovering fire again
Round thing bad.
While it is a joke about the US, it’s also known that at some point neanderthals and homo sapiens both populated the earth.
There’s debates as to whether the neanderthals we’re bred out of existence or if they we’re wiped out by the Homo Sapiens.
Not necessarily related to the meme per say, but a fun fact nonetheless.
Current politics
Neanderthals might’ve been smarter than humans. The message is okay but this person doesn’t know history
In historical context this is wrong as the Homo sapien neanderthalensis were smarter, more social and less aggressive then the homo sapien sapien. And the more calm nature let to its extinction.
Just move to France.
Dumb MAGA politicians come into office and grind any real progress to a halt. Keeping our society from improving.
Wish someone could add a slight Vance, Trump, Musk resemblance to those 3 in the background.
It’s a joke on yo-yo politics: one side wins so they roll back what they can from the previous administration and implement their own initiatives. Then the other side wins in the next election and does the same. Rinse, repeat, and you’ve got yourself an inefficient government.
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The joke is that the cartoonist is ignorant to the fact that Neanderthals were likely more advanced than Homo sapiens in various ways and are therefore a bad stand-in for dumb republicans.
Neanderthals were smarter than sapiens tho
Trump / MAGA. They don’t like circles (in this case the wheel), because the shape in general reminds them of buttholes / gay.
Just more name calling by a smug “journalist” who thinks it plays well on social media (it does).
Sorry guys ! Forgot to add the context. I saw this post on LinkedIn posted by a professor. Nobody seems to get it. So I posted it here. So many responses ❤️. I finally got it. Thank you everyone.
Research into highly contagious viruses in Chinese labs unfortunately is stopping for a bit. 🙄