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Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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595 points geox | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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resters ◴[02 Jul 25 23:45 UTC] No.44450054[source]▶
As the US slowly becomes N. Korea...
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monetus ◴[03 Jul 25 01:35 UTC] No.44450748[source]▶
How in the world did Juche become our national philosophy? I'm not sure, but I think about it all the time now.

I'm on HN, so I tend to want to blame the ad industry. It's pretty nebulous to think that "made in America" directly snowballed into this; so many things did. The freakier nativism in advertising really could use a break right about now though.

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sorcerer-mar ◴[03 Jul 25 01:39 UTC] No.44450776[source]▶
There's no national philosophy. That's giving these people way too much credit.

"Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman is 100% predictive and descriptive of how we got where we are.

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1. i80and ◴[03 Jul 25 01:42 UTC] No.44450794[source]▶
I do think USA-flavored Juche does some explanatory power for the group as a whole, even if the individuals lack any specific philosophy beyond hill climbing.

I do also need to read Postman, though.