I really hope the next president will be able to undo this fucking mess... otherwise the US is probably never going to catch back up to what it used to be. Voters made a terrible mistake.
The United States withdraws from UNESCO
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#52This 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.
Even if Congress changes hands in the 2026 election, they won't take office until early 2027.
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#53What year is it, 2017? https://2017-2021.state.gov/the-united-states-withdraws-from... Boring, been here before. UNESCO and world moved on. With some notable declarations like Demoscene and Techno music being added in a number of countries. Too bad those couldn't be added to a US registry also.
Whoa, that is fascinating. We did this before.
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#54And 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.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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.
"woke, divisive cultural and social causes" is using it as an adjective. Causes is the noun.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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#57And 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.
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And the leadership was supposedly smart too.
Intelligence and morality don't necessarily go together.
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#58And 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.
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An entire set of countries actually - no division between intelligence. It was a global cultural phenomenon.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They’re all directly in context of themselves. And if you read the original press release are related to why the US is leaving UNESCO.
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#60"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. "
Throwing away our American First globalist capitalist ideological project for... clout?