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Trump orders destruction of CO2 measure satelites (slrpnk.net)
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https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's standard procedure to deliberately deorbit satellites that are no longer in use, since the whole program was defunded.

It's not like they are doing this out of spite, they are just doing what they said they would do, which people voted for.

Crazy, but true.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone voted for this, and certainly most people didn't vote for the administration in charge, so ...

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

People keep saying that most people didn't vote for this, but it's just disingenuous

2/3 of eligible americans did not vote against this. that's the stat that matters

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

People don’t get excited to vote against candidates/platforms nearly as much as they do to vote for them. The choices may not be equally bad but that’s surprisingly irrelevant. South Park’s Turd Sandwich is pretty spot on.

But to your point, most of them didn’t vote for the climate change apocalypse, they voted for the racism.

Some of them undoubtedly did vote for the apocalypse, because their religious views include hastening the end so they can get to the rapture. That’s terrifying and underreported, but I suspect it’s a minority. There’s nothing Great Again about destroying the world, unless you’re a rapacious billionaire who wants to sit on a larger stack of toys in your cool bunker. Most of the idiots won’t realize how they got swindled until it’s far too late.