• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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        It feels more like he is Netanyahu’s attack dog and some of the tech oligarchs with dad issues treat him like one. The others just lick his ass for free pass to do whatever the fuck they want. Of course you may ask “aren’t these the only modes of friendship that exists in Trump’s life” and you may be right…

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      I’m sure this isn’t really about saving money. It’s about destroying the US Forest Service. That’s the direct goal.

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        In a few years: “These unkempt forests are a real eyesore, what if we sell the land to private entities”

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      It’s actually $9B a year…which I wouldn’t call “minuscule” like PBS was.

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        Wildland Fire Management and the Wildfire Adjustment

        The largest share of FS appropriations goes to the WFM account. The WFM appropriation funds preparedness, or fire prevention, detection, equipment and training; wildfire suppression; and salaries and expenses.

        Overall, in FY2025, 51% of the agency’s discretionary appropriations, including supplemental appropriations, were provided for these two accounts (26% WFM, 25% wildfire adjustment).

        https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13101

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        The point is Trump will never do anything that isn’t for deeply personal reasons. And he would never do anything solely to save money on the budget, he doesn’t care about that at all. So either he does this out of pure spite, because it is a “liberal” thing, or more likely he does it because he has been bribed by whatever industries are eager to turn all that forest into shortsighted profit.

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    President Javier Melei is a self described ancap and the inspiration behind DOGE. Wouldn’t surprise me if this is another attempt at shaping things by another libertarian group.