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National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted federal facility

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299 points LastTrain | 4 comments | 24 Jun 25 21:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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jekwoooooe ◴[24 Jun 25 21:58 UTC] No.44371503[source]▶
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treetalker ◴[24 Jun 25 22:07 UTC] No.44371569[source]▶
Abandon all hope, ye who seek reflective reasoning from this government.

But my guess is that less public access to national information helps, and does not hinder, a speed-run to autocracy.

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AnimalMuppet ◴[24 Jun 25 22:26 UTC] No.44371702[source]▶
I dunno. I'm very much not a Trump fan, but I don't see how restricting access to "national information" would help him. And if it would, how does restricting access to one of them help him?

I could more see this as being just random action without any real purpose, or aimed at petty revenge on someone, or something.

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1. LastTrain ◴[24 Jun 25 22:31 UTC] No.44371725[source]▶
Everything they do is meant to sew mistrust. It doesn’t need to have any other benefit. I don’t think they are trying to hide anything, and I don’t think this is about staffing - they just want to wreck government and your trust in it.
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2. mschuster91 ◴[24 Jun 25 23:16 UTC] No.44372107[source]▶
> they just want to wreck government and your trust in it.

... and eventually, privatize the wreckage or cut even more services because it's obviously "not working out".

3. samus ◴[25 Jun 25 00:03 UTC] No.44372361[source]▶
You're assuming competence. They are simply not giving a flying s**t about many things, break stuff and cause chaos somewhere else (Chesterton's Fence applies), cut funding, and affected agencies now have to deal with it.
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4. DonHopkins ◴[25 Jun 25 01:07 UTC] No.44372745[source]▶
Who in their right mind ever assumed anything about the Trump administration was competent? You don't need to be competent to break things on purpose out of spite and malice and hate. That's easy!