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At lease when the olâ USA dies it will be due to national suicide, not an external invasion. Thatâs a positive thing in a way.
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Is it though? Is that better? Iâm not sure it isâŚ
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I really wish the 
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Just me trying to grasp at straws.
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WASHINGTONâThe Biden appointee in charge of the nationâs most treasured documents has over the past year ignited a behind-the-scenes fight over the telling of American history.
U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought to de-emphasize negative parts of U.S. history. She has ordered the removal of prominent references to such landmark events as the governmentâs displacement of indigenous tribes and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II from planned exhibits.
Visitors shouldnât feel confronted, a senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed. Shogan and her senior advisers also have raised concerns that planned exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might anger Republican lawmakersâwho share control of the agencyâs budgetâor a potential Trump administration.
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Shogan has since overseen a host of changes to exhibits planned in a roughly $40 million makeover of the National Archives Museum, which draws more than a million visitors a year, and the adjacent Discovery Center, which provides education programs for students and families. Longtime employees said Shoganâs directives amounted to censorship.
Shoganâs senior aides ordered that a proposed image of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. be cut from a planned âStep Into Historyâ photo booth in the Discovery Center. The booth will give visitors a chance to take photos of themselves superimposed alongside historic figures. The aides also ordered the removal of labor-union pioneer Dolores Huerta and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the Marine Corps, from the photo booth, according to current and former employees and agency documents.
The aides proposed using instead images of former President Richard Nixon greeting Elvis Presley and former President Ronald Reagan with baseball player Cal Ripken Jr.
After reviewing plans for an exhibit about the nationâs Westward expansion, Shogan asked one staffer, Why is it so much about Indians? according to current and former employees. Among the records Shogan ordered cut from the exhibit were several treaties signed by Native American tribes ceding their lands to the U.S. government, according to the employees and documents.
For an exhibit about patents that had changed the world, Shogan directed that the patent for the contraceptive pill be replaced. Aides substituted the patent for television. During discussions about what to use instead of the birth-control pill, an aide to Shogan suggested a patent for the bump stock, a device that allows a semiautomatic weapon to operate as a machine gun, according to two former employees.
Shogan and her top advisers told employees to remove Dorothea Langeâs photos of Japanese-American incarceration camps from a planned exhibit because the images were too negative and controversial, according to documents and current and former employees. Shoganâs aides also asked staff to eliminate references about the wartime incarceration from some educational materials, other current and former employees said.
Ellis Brachman, a senior adviser to Shogan, complained to some employees that they were too woke, according to current and former employees.
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Christ, what a destructive asshole.
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Which ânegativeâ parts? Itâs all been perfect since, like, forever!
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It looks like sheâs so afraid of losing her job and/or funding to her organisation that sheâs doing everything to be a good little toady, despite (based on the evidence) not being a true believer.
Iâve said it before in the other place: Weâve seen this before. Vorauseilender Gehorsam (anticipatory obedience) paved a lot of the way for the Nazisâ step-up from menacing but legal party to dictatorship. This is as pure an example as I have ever seen in recent times.
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Thatâs part of it. But this seems more than just donât-rock-the-boat. Particularly removing MLK from the planned photo booth and removing the treaties. Unless there was explainer text with the treaties, most people (and particularly GOP lawmakers) arenât going to understand those documents represent a negative and shameful era of the US
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American Exceptionalism⢠is a fantasy construct and always has been.
there is no âexceptionalismâ without the negative aspects that we, as a nation, have struggled to overcome.
this Shogan person is âexceptionallyâ wrong.
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These weirdos againâŚ
Theyâre fucking demented.
[ETA] The above article links to the previous article about these people, but here it isâŚ
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âIf you are draining resources, you should have less influence,â she said.
Kind of tempting. But the people who are actually draining resources are the rich, like their idols Trump and Musk, and I will settle for them having the same influence as everyone else.
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Spot on⌠they are just trying to dress up their belief in eugenics and (essentially) a monarchy with a pseudo-scientific veneer. But thatâs what is at the heart of this, their belief that the wealthy are just inherently superior, therefore should rule over the rest of us⌠Fucking creeps.
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âItâs easy to forget how small the population of people in the world who actually impacts anything or matters is,â he said.
Yeah. This is true, but itâs not because humanity is full of Untermenschen, itâs because most people are forced to waste their lives grinding out a few extra pennies for hoarders who will never need them. Imagine how much more art and science and history and wonder they would make if we let them have the chance! But no, instead itâs all about spreading DNA from humanityâs worst people because having money is supposed to be an allele.
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Scary people.
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The Skype co-founder and Estonian billionaire Jaan Tallinn (father of five) donated just under half a million dollars to the Collinsesâ pronatalist foundation in 2022.
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Another name to watch out for.
But good for them to get funding from contemporary billionaire, seeing that they are a bit late to apply for subsidiaries at the NSV.
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