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The United States withdraws from UNESCO
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#32the wording of that page is so blatantly propaganda that it's embarrassing to read. It's pathetic.
At least it's transparent, like all the other things coming from the executive branch lately. And maybe that makes the damage more lasting, because people can see that US is so mired in populism that it cannot grasp how the SDGs of reducing poverty, accessing sanitation, equality, and -- dare I say -- dealing with climate change are things that ultimately help global security and thus benefit the US.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
For context: The commentary those quotes are taken from was written by Eugene Kontorovich, a senior researcher at the Heritage Foundation which runs Project 2025.
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If I sneak up behind you, and smack you in the head, and say "you didn't object!", that's factually correct, but deeply lacking in context.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Guess someone doesn't like you posting excerpts from a WSJ article.
All the quotes I included are factual, and help explain the OP. Yet they're being downvoted. It's a shame HN operates like this. Some people's narratives are so fragile the only way they can survive is to silence all other narratives.
These quotes are displayed without context and hence have no or a very little value in a conversation.
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#35Another tantrum thrown because the world refuses to align with their twisted view. Shocking to thing we're only ~1/8th through this term.
Why fantasize that the GOP isn't going to do a Putin/Erdogan/Suharto? Those countries have "democratic" elections and keep electing the same president, they must be hella great guys!
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#36> UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy. Ummm...what? This is the kind of nonsense that makes me want to leave this country.
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#37More coverage: https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-pulls-us-out-un-cultural...
"President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO – which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said." I have come to think of UNESCO with regard to their World Heritage sites (I saw in the news that Neuschwanstein was just recently added), but one of m…
"woke" deployed as a noun really rankles me. But then, I guess that's the point eh - own those snowflakes, nothing matters, lol.
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#38This administration has zero ability to build or bring people together, able only to destroy what others have made. On the bright side, it isn't effective until December 31, 2026 so there is plenty of time to chicken out.
> it isn't effective until December 31, 2026 so there is plenty of time to chicken out.
That's within the current administration. Unless a change in congress can prevent this, it's a done deal.
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#40And it’s wild to think that more than 1/3 of the devs I’ve met in my life support this admin. These are seemingly smart people. The past 10 years or so made me realize I don’t know anything about human nature or intellect.
Edit: I am in no way saying conservatism is bad and liberalism is good. I have my values in both.