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posted by martyb on Friday August 25 2017, @09:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the Well-that-went-well dept.

Daniel Kammen, a renewable energy expert appointed last year as a science envoy to the State Department, resigned Wednesday, citing President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville as the final straw that led to his departure.

Kind of makes you wonder, you know, what kind of President could provoke a science envoy to the State department to resign. But not far to look! As Kammen goes on:

In a resignation letter posted to Twitter, Kammen wrote that Trump's remarks about the racial violence in Virginia had attacked "core values of the United States" and that it would have "domestic and international ramifications."

Even American scientists have ethics, and will not serve violent racist regimes, like Nazi Germany. So there is that.

But the most interesting thing, is the encryption:

However, his most biting message may have come in the form of a hidden acrostic: The first letter of each paragraph spelled out I-M-P-E-A-C-H.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @11:20AM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @11:20AM (#558810)

    comparing literal Nazi's to literal Nazi's is not Godwinning

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @11:42AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @11:42AM (#558813)

    Not too long ago, Obama and Hilary were considered Nazis by.... well, by esseintially the same people who dressed up in Nazi outfits and paraded through Charlottesville.

    So are we to assume Unite the Right are a bunch of Obama supporters? Left wing politics is very confusing.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @01:52PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @01:52PM (#558857)

      The left doxxed everybody there except for the guy holding the actual Nazi flag. The right noticed, then doxxed him, and it turns out that he was seen at liberal protest events.

      So the leader is just pretending to be Nazi in order to dox people, or he has some kind of split personality thing, or he just protests for the fun of protesting. He is in no way a real Nazi believer. That flag he carried (with the swastika) isn't something he consistently believes in. It's a literal false flag.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @04:35PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @04:35PM (#558948)

        Alex Jones called, he says "Stay off my turf you insignificant piece of shit."

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @06:09AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @06:09AM (#559315)
        I saw photos of a KKK rally a month earlier posted as if they were taken at the UniteTheRight Charlottesville rally. I have yet to see one shred of proof that the rally was "white nationalist" or "white supremacist" or anything of that sort. Yes, there were some white supremacists that decided to show up and join in, but that doesn't make everyone else there nor the rally organizers ALL white nationalists by association. Until I see proof that the rally was organized by and majority attended by white nationalists/supremacists, I call absolute bullshit on the prevailing narrative. [youtube.com]
  • (Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Friday August 25 2017, @12:45PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday August 25 2017, @12:45PM (#558833) Journal

    comparing literal Nazi's to literal Nazi's is not Godwinning

    You just want to bring out the Grammar Nazi's.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @02:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @02:15PM (#558866)

      Grammar Nazi's must be a separatist faction of Grammar Nazis that are advocating for greengrocers rights.

      Thank goodness nobody's mentioned the Literal Grammar Nazi's.

      Oops!

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday August 25 2017, @02:54PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday August 25 2017, @02:54PM (#558875) Homepage Journal

    ESL, AC? "Nazi's" is a possessive, meaning "belonging to a Nazi". If English is your primary language, I suggest you read a few real books. The word you were looking for is "Nazis".

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday August 25 2017, @03:02PM (2 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday August 25 2017, @03:02PM (#558885)

    When did we get a literal Nazi party in the U.S.? I must've missed that memo.

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @03:04PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @03:04PM (#558888)

      They used to call themselves "alt-right".

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @02:43AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @02:43AM (#559248)

        Standard Liberal 101: "Agree with whatever jack shit insanity we invented this week or else you're a Nazi and it's OK that we murder you in the name of tolerance."

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JNCF on Friday August 25 2017, @04:13PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Friday August 25 2017, @04:13PM (#558932) Journal

    Shitty grammar aside, you're also incorrect. Godwin's Law makes no claim about whether a particular Hitler comparison is apropos, only that the likelihood of such a comparison goes up with length of any internet discussion. Note that we could swap out "Hitler" with anything else and the rule would still hold. Also, the "internet" part is a red herring. JNCF's Law: as a telephone conversation grows longer, the probability of an analogy involving puppy-kicking approaches 1.