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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 Sulla on Friday August 25 2017, @04:44PM (2 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Friday August 25 2017, @04:44PM (#558956) Journal

    Actually we are all to blame for the rise of the Nazis. The Nazis came out of the interwar period in Germany where they were getting raked over the coals by the Treaty of Versailles. The French and English are taking every penny they can from Germany, the people in Germany are starving and unable to buy what they need to survive, and the elite is fine. The people revolted against English and French oppression and got national, they rejected the elites and got socialist, they rebuild their country based on the base unit of German workers, and they banded together to do it and got a party.

    Had it not been for how bad the treaty of Versailles was, I doubt we would have had the Nazis.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @08:38PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @08:38PM (#559105)

    Would a non-existence of Nazis mean no communism in the world? No communism in Russia? No communism in Germany? ...

    Would a non-existence of Nazis mean Lenin/Stalin would not have existed either?

    All of those would have happened, and there would have been nothing stopping Stalin from taking over the world. Nazis saved all our lives. I thank them every day.

    • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Saturday August 26 2017, @05:35AM

      by Sulla (5173) on Saturday August 26 2017, @05:35AM (#559306) Journal

      If I recall Lenin was an ideological weapon Germany fired at Russia by way of train that ended up fucking all of humanity. Probably the most dangerous weapon ever used, they didn't even test it!

      Germany gave us both Nazis and the father of modern communism. Thanks Germany.

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