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The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by nemomarx »

netsharc wrote: post #35
rtkwe wrote: post #15

Another 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!

The optimistic case is that while they made noise about election fraud in 2020 no one was organized enough to try for a coup then, and it's not clear if they'll be able to get organized in time for 28

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by ilaksh »

lvl155 wrote: post #40

And 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.

They have a worldview that is so different it is effectively an alternate reality. This mostly comes from seeing different information streams or being in different social circles.

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Post by hopelite »

duesabati wrote: post #6

> America First > anti-Israel American Government became the parody of itself, so sad

A toxic, psychopathic, narcissistic con job is parody?

I don’t think people are at all understanding that they are in an abusive relationship and have been all their lives and so have all the people around them all their lives for many generations now. We have all been born into a cult and that cult is all we know, so we are afraid to even just contemplate for a moment that it could all just be lies and abuses by liars and abusers.

If they can get you to voluntarily believe crazy things and do abusive things, they can get you to believe and do anything. That applies to the full political spectrum and for most people.

It’s not a farce. It’s something way worse.

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by rexpop »

uneekname wrote: post #10

> 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.

> This is the kind of nonsense that makes me want to leave this country.

So go, if you're not going to fight it.

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by cbsmith »

ncr100 wrote: post #53
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #47

What 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.

Yeah, there's a long and tangled history with UNESCO that spans multiple administrations.

That said, the wording of the statement is... problematic.

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Post by silveira »

lvl155 wrote: post #40

And 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.

Intelligence sometimes manifests as doing the wrong thing in the most convoluted way.

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by shadowgovt »

Not that this is a topic that I think anyone is still rubed on (in the sense that even those who voted for him thinking he'd be better on Israel / Palestine relations have been disabused of the notion), but did anyone else have "Trump withdraws the US from UNESCO because they support Palestine" on their bingo card?

And, of course, the follow-up question: did anyone have it on a Harris bingo card?

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