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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. const_cast ◴[19 Jul 25 04:33 UTC] No.44612628{3}[source]▶
> unpalatable

See, this is a weasel word. Nobody said it was unpalatable, they said it was bad, because it is.

Do you want bad things to happen? No? Okay then, everyone should be on the same page.