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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
I wouldn't call this a meme. It is fucking horrible news though
Edit. It's half true, see comments below
Idk. Is this even real? Is this a real thing that is happening? I guess it's a meme insofar as it's a very ridiculous, far-fetched, outrageous thing for the leader of a country to do. And yet, I genuinely don't know whether to think that it's true...
He is moving the forest service HQ out of washington DC and shutting down research. Ive not heard that he's closing regional offices.
Ive always felt like people think of the National Forests as National Parks or preserves, but theyre not. National Forests are mixed use allowing for recreation and industry.
Moving the HQ to the west makes sense to me since that's where a bulk of the forestland is. And we know that stupid people dont like smart people and their ideas, so research was bound to get torpedoed by Trump.
In retrospect we probably shouldn't have let a paedophile destroy the country.
Nobody could possibly have seen that coming.
There couldn’t have possibly been a detailed plan released by a conservative think tank that was actively involved in his election campaign.
Do you expect me to read all that? Nerd!
This is so outrageous that I find it hard to believe. The cost of the entire US Forest Service must be minuscule, especially if you compare it to cost of waging unnecessary, illegal, and unethical wars all over the planet.
I'm sure this isn't really about saving money. It's about destroying the US Forest Service. That's the direct goal.
In a few years: "These unkempt forests are a real eyesore, what if we sell the land to private entities"
It's about removing roadblock to "national parks are open for business"
Even if Trump hadn’t raped children, being the exact opposite of Teddy Roosevelt would make him among the worst American presidents.
The child-raping thing makes it considerably worse btw.
It’s such a shame. The US had such an exemplary park system, and now I anticipate the days where they bulldoze Yellowstone for a community of golf course condos that advertise their hot spring spa.
I hope the employees steal the data on the way out and give them to a university or some entity who can save them.
This makes me rationally livid.
It makes my fucking blood boil and I don't even live in the USA. For all the problems your country has, the parks, the forestry, the public land and wild spaces are truly unique and precious assets, even looking at it in a global sense rather than a national one. Something worth defending tooth and nail. So of course Trump would want to destroy all of that, because if he didn't, you could still make the case that he hadn't really irredeemably and permanently ruined every single aspect of the country.
Shout out to my wife's uncle, the nature photographer who loves hiking and nature and voted for this chode to stop the woke mind virus. How's that going bud?
Well one thing these last years have taught me is that the US president has way too much power.
It was never an issue before because presidents didn't test it, but this is insanity.
To be fair, in many ways the president doesn't have the power. But Republicans in congress are complicit, so when he does incredibly illegal, batshit crazy stuff, none of the mechanisms to keep him in check function. Him being president is a big problem, but the real problem here is the complete abdication of responsibility by those meant to check him.
I mean. You have to give it to them. They are really going all in on destroying anything that actually made America great.
I’m not sure if that was the original goal, or even the intent now, but even with how terrible this news is, if the goal is to systematically dismantle a country, these guys are very very good at it.
You don't have to be good at anything to destroy things, which is why it's all they brag about.
They're running it like a business. Sell everything of value, bail when it crashes.
one man should not be allowed to hand America's assets to his cronies and sidekicks
The ~~Confederates~~ Republicans have spent decades laying the groundwork for this. Every GOP member “elected” or appointed to any role has helped pave the way.
look at all the Palestinians that were saved because we didn't elect a warmonger like Harris.
this is an acceptable price to pay for saving all those children.
/s
But why destroy the research?
To show the sheer contempt for the goodie two-shoes trying to save the world.
They're unironically Captain Planet villains.
Yeah great, let’s put the logging industry in charge of the forests. Who cares about research projects when you’re going to cut down all the fucking trees anyway.
Eh he is funneling money from everything he deems unnecessary (health, science, nature preservation, education, progressing human rights etc) to pockets of his buddies, Netanyahu and tech oligarchs.
Damn, it's crazy that we let one guy decide these things. Seems like the kind of thing that should be determined by a large legislative body that holds the power over our nation's budget and the ability to write laws. Weird we don't have one of those.
I should not need to have new reasons for hating this scumbag. But fuck is dismantling the park system even profitable? Fuck is the point here?
Fdr, like all of american presidents was no saint and maybe arguably a fucking atrocity. But dam the park system he helped give to us americans, its so good what the fuck. Why fuck it up?
Oil prospecting
Industrial agriculture (especially cattle farms)
Lumber trade
Suburban developments
Military bases
Espionage training
Weapons testing
Retail chains
Data centers
And the list goes on and on...
Its something to pillage. Its something beautiful to destroy. Its an outside to cull, so people have nothing and nowhere to do go or be that isnt controlled owned and surveilled.
The obly surprise is how slow its hapoening.
Please provide sources with posts from prominent people. A lot of altered and fake posts tend to be spread.
This looks like it may be one of them as only parts of the forest service are closing as far as a fast search can tell.
It seems that this may be just one step short of a complete dismantling
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
Not so fun fact: Forest fires over last 6 years have made global forests net carbon emitters instead of sinks.
