man you've really just gotta hate America and its citizens to cut back on the damn National Park Service. you've gotta have no interest in what makes our country unique and no desire for people to experience it - ThreadSky

rodger.bsky.social • 4 days ago

man you've really just gotta hate America and its citizens to cut back on the damn National Park Service. you've gotta have no interest in what makes our country unique and no desire for people to experience it

Reposted from David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.

This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

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bwalla.bsky.social•4 days ago

What % of this current administration do we think has ever stepped foot in a non-dc national park.

brad58.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's not complicated. They want the parks to go to shit so they can justify selling them off.

These people are fucking monsters.

msklow.bsky.social•3 days ago

🎯

zweezyrider.bsky.social•4 days ago

Can’t wait to visit Yellowstone National Park, brought to you by Mastercard, and have the whole place run by an army of unpaid, unemployed people who live there 6 months at a time in trailers. There only reward being a free tshirt.

andrewkilger.bsky.social•4 days ago

But how can I personally profit off it, Rodger?

rodger.bsky.social•4 days ago

you know, if I were a dictator trying to maximize personal profit at the expense of my people, I'd still throw some money into parks so they'd go on vacations with their families and take pride in their nation's beauty instead of constantly wanting to revolt against me. but that's just me tho

rpmadmsu.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not when there's oil in them thar hills though....

verbaljones.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is a need among narcissists to hurt people, take away things they value, destroy what is beautiful, etc. For the right, this is a desirable and essential exercise of political power -- make the people who enjoy parks suffer, know that they are suffering, imagine it, get off on it.

afino.bsky.social•4 days ago

But Rodger, those hills are filled with DEI, didn’t you know?

howdytimbo.bsky.social•4 days ago

why do that when you can turn Yosemite into Trump National Sierra Nevada

tigermakers.bsky.social•4 days ago

"We're building the Myrtle Beach of the American Southwest. It will be perfect!"

ekbroiler.bsky.social•4 days ago

but but think of the efficiencies that will be created when all these parks are turned into big, beautiful AI data centers

chaptal.bsky.social•4 days ago

And think of the sweet, sweet cash oil and mineral speculators are going to rake in.

kagavi.bsky.social•3 days ago

does this mean you're going to follow up your tour of all cfb stadiums with a tour of all national parks? pls do this

grammarpurist.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump plans to sell them all off to private developers and oil companies.

stagraven.bsky.social•4 days ago

But Rodger, that’s money that HE wants. Every million dollars counts. (Sarcasm)

cubreporter.bsky.social•4 days ago

Only if you had actual pride in your country or some desire to make the people living there happy.

danny.page•4 days ago

promotes car culture too. my drive back to the east coast through the various parks of the west coast and rockies was one of the best trips I've ever taken

oatman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Correct. You exist to work and generate value for your boss. Anything else is a needless distraction.

verbaljones.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yet another example of that strain of outright anger coursing through the right. To some degree, in every conservative, there is a certain amount of pleasure to be found in hurting people, destroying beautiful things, etc. Knowing that someone, somewhere is suffering makes them feel good.

isogsargent.bsky.social•4 days ago

None of it has to do with waste or fraud.
That would have taken months to investigate.
With auditors.
Not days.
With IT hackers.

scottfaldon.bsky.social•4 days ago

They want to privatize the NPS and sell Yellowstone and Yosemite off to the highest bidders.

vesuvan.bsky.social•4 days ago

They don't need to preserve the wild places because they intend to rape every one of them

Wait til the strip mining equipment rolls into Yosemite

Did you really not listen to what they've been saying?