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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

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241 points anigbrowl | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jleyank ◴[19 Jul 25 00:00 UTC] No.44611189[source]▶
It's really depressing how the US system seems to have existed "on belief". Once somebody set out to damage or destroy it, away it went. Pretty much without a whimper.

As I recall, the system was set up with 3 branches of government in tension. Obviously, that was naive.

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jabjq ◴[19 Jul 25 00:06 UTC] No.44611243[source]▶
The system has existed on the taxpayer. Now the taxpayer has voted to get rid of it.
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ujkhsjkdhf234 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:14 UTC] No.44611285[source]▶
The taxpayer was lied to repeatedly and under the belief of many many many lies, unwittingly voted to get rid of it.
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jabjq ◴[19 Jul 25 00:16 UTC] No.44611293[source]▶
Democracy is good until the public votes for something unpalatable. In that case they were lied to and/or they are unfit to choose for themselves.
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1. intended ◴[19 Jul 25 00:27 UTC] No.44611362{3}[source]▶
We can actually show that the American public are lied to, and continue to be lied to.

Yes - I can get the point you are making - “democracy for me but not for thee” is BS. Sure!

But the evidence is that theres one media network which is simply selling whatever story works, along side a 50+ year effort to kill trust in institutions. We can even show that the republican machinery gave up on bipartisanship - hell, it’s even public knowledge.

But that wouldn’t make a whit of a difference to voting patterns, or your point. Because your point doesn’t need to be based in the long history of complicated malfeasance that rots all English speaking democracies. It’s anchored in your current state and argument.

So yeah, people voted.