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Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA by mirimir on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:01PM (#13789167)
So A has to get rid of B, or make them irrelevant.
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Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA by mikeash on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:04PM (#13789176)
How? B has all the power. It's easy to say "get rid of them" but how do you actually do it?
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Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA by mirimir on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:30PM (#13789272)
Maybe B has overwhelming power now. But if B's position is untenable, that will eventually become apparent. And yes, that may take far too long to be of any good.
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Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA by tremon on Saturday March 04, 2017 @09:08AM (#13790927)
But if B's position is untenable, that will eventually become apparent.

Sure. That's why B is investing heavily in its military.

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Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA by mirimir on Saturday March 04, 2017 @06:34PM (#13793523)
I thought that this subthread was about US politics. That's so knife-edge that it could flip in four years. But yes, if the US goes full-moron, and takes a military approach to climate mitigation, all bets are off :(
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