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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @03:17PM (17 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @03:17PM (#558896) Journal

    That's you only explanation for my post? Maybe you're the one who is high. Two anti-American groups have a confrontation, and some of them die. What's to be upset about? OH! I KNOW!! We should be upset that they didn't ALL KILL EACH OTHER!! Imagine, hundreds of Nazis, and thousands of communists and Antifa, all dead, bleeding all over the streets of Charlottesville.

    High, you ask? Something like that might give me a buzz. Kill 'em all, let God sort them out.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @03:21PM (16 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @03:21PM (#558899)

    You're a disgusting and narrow minded fool. Sadly no amount of pointing this out will cause you to self-reflect and break through your conditioning. I guess all we can do is wait for old morons like you to die off.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @03:32PM (15 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @03:32PM (#558905) Journal

      Me? Narrow minded? I looked at Charlottesville, and found NOTHING BUT BAD ACTORS on BOTH SIDES!!

      You? You poor chump. You're drinking the main stream media Kool-Aid by the gallon, and begging for more! Wake up, Stupid. You're being played, and you're a very useful idiot.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @03:42PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @03:42PM (#558909)

        Don't know what else to expect from someone like you, but it is sad nonetheless. Enjoy your propaganda and projection.

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @03:49PM (3 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @03:49PM (#558917) Journal

          And, you enjoy your delusions. I haven't taken a side in the Charlottesville incident. Apparently, you have.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @04:46PM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @04:46PM (#558960)

            You're damned right Soros and company paid people to disrupt the Nazi rally. Fake news? Uh-huh - read ALL of the news. The dead chick was a commie, and she was there to stir up shit. The shit got stirred, and she went under. I don't know why that particular turd thought she would float to the top.

            I'm loving these ridiculously easy shots you're just giving away. Not taking a side? Commie bitch got what she deserved?? lol you're a few screws loose there dingus.

            • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @05:06PM (1 child)

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @05:06PM (#558976) Journal

              Did you send YOUR daughter to a Nazi rally to incite a riot? If not, why not?

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:23PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:23PM (#558990)

                You get crazier by the minute. You claim you love personal responsibility but won't address your borderline psychotic jubilation over the death of a non-violent protester. I don't care how much you despise her politics, you should ONLY be condemning the murderer instead of playing some apologetic shit show.

                Stop pretending to be a moderate, you're loaded with prejudice of varying sorts, not just simple "I hate black people!" or whatever. Maybe therapy would help, I dunno how to approach healing someone with the level of cognitive dissonance you obviously have.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @04:43PM (9 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @04:43PM (#558954)

        "Many sides", Runaway, "Many sides"! Your thinking (or what passes for the same) is too two-sided.

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @05:03PM (8 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @05:03PM (#558973) Journal

          Two sided? I thought that I had made it pretty clear. The Nazis have their side. The commies have their side. And, I'm not buying what either of them are selling. I'm American, not Nazi, not commie. If every skinhead white supremacists were to die tonight, and take a commie/progressive with him, the world would be a far more beautiful place.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:30PM (6 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:30PM (#558996)

            It is interesting how you use the propaganda term from your age bracket's indoctrination. Commies! The reds! Where are you even getting the idea that she was a communist?

            I don't know why I bother asking, its obviously from talk radio / fox / some other propaganda sites that throw out keywords to get you emotionally triggered. And you call everyone else a sucker...

            • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @05:48PM (5 children)

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @05:48PM (#559013) Journal

              She was a member of the "Industrial Workers of the World". Google it, if you like.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @06:25PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @06:25PM (#559043)

                To all who complain about Fine Articles like this being "clickbait", the more proper designation is "Runaway bait", and we have caught a live one! Tell us more about the Commies, grandpa?

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @06:46PM (3 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @06:46PM (#559063)

                I decided to take the bait, and boy was I "shocked" at what I found!

                wikipdeia entry on IWW [wikipedia.org]

                So unions == communism??? Yup, mid 20th century propaganda confirmed! Runaway you might want to consider going back to school for retirement, if you actually care about truth and have the balls to undo your own brainwashing.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @08:05PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @08:05PM (#559094)

                  "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, as alive as you and me."

                • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @11:36PM (1 child)

                  by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @11:36PM (#559152) Journal

                  So, you clicked the link. Did you read it? Go back, and search for the word "communist". The AFL thought the IWW was "to radical". This is back in the day when the AFL was pretty radical itself.

                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:09PM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:09PM (#559409)

                    Haha that is exactly what I did and skimmed the content. You are simply lying now.

          • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Codesmith on Friday August 25 2017, @06:35PM

            by Codesmith (5811) on Friday August 25 2017, @06:35PM (#559051)

            I had typed a full response before being called away to a critical task. In hindsight, I decided to reduce it to a minimum.

            You, sir, are an ass.

            And in celebrating the death of a murder victim, you are also a particularly sick piece of shit.

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            Pro utilitate hominum.