I just got banned from this subreddit for “trolling and misinformation,” neither of which is true, on a comment on a post I MADE about the destruction at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Posting correct information about Obama's neoliberal National Park Service centennial, then telling all the downvoters to keep downvoting me because I don't vote for either duopoly party is NOT NOT NOT trolling!
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I replied telling them the facts, and also telling them that I suspected they would not unban me. So, r/nationalpark fuck off, assuming my guess is right. If not? I'll apologize here.
Fact is, both that and the other main national parks site are loaded with duopoly tribalism. The downvotes I had gotten on the initial comment about the fire at the North Rim:
Part of a trend. Obama's centennial celebration had a bunch of corporate sponsors and I remember the concern when he picked Jewell from REI.
I then added to when I hit 22 downvotes:
(I don't vote for either "duopoly" party, but do tell the truth about this, about both parties on climate change and more. Keep downvoting; I won't die.)
And was at 37 by the time I got banned.
No, Obama didn't cut firefighting? Or maybe he did. He DID, per the one commenter, get in bed with Xi Jinping to make the Paris Accords totally voluntary Jell-O. Too bad that doesn't fit the left hand of the dupoly's narrative.
And, maybe not targeted to firefighters, but Obama DID cut the budget for individual national parks. There you are, certain Reddit soy boy.
That link comes off Google's AI, which also returned all of this:
In February 2012, a National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) announcement noted that President Obama's proposed budget included cuts exceeding $20 million for the parks themselves, leading to a net reduction of 218 full-time rangers and other park service staff. (That's also the link above.)
The NPS budget for deferred maintenance (addressing the backlog of repairs) was reportedly cut during the first three years of the Obama Administration, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior (.gov).
The National Park Service (.gov) confirmed in 2015 that the President's Fiscal Year 2013 budget included $67.2 million in "strategic reductions" in park and program operations, construction, and heritage partnership programs.
An ABC News article from 2012 reported on potential staffing cuts for national parks under Obama's budget, particularly affecting seasonal staff.
I focused on stuff that came out of Obama's presidential budget.
Here's more on that third bullet point:
The President's Fiscal Year 2013 budget released today requests $2.6 billion to support the bureau's critical national recreation, preservation and conservation mission. The 2013 President's budget request fully funds $27.0 million in fixed costs and provides increases totaling $39.2 million to fund essential programs and emerging operational needs. Reflecting the President's call for fiscal discipline and sustainability, the budget also includes $67.2 million in strategic reductions in park and program operations, construction, and heritage partnership programs.
This is the same O'Bummer who listened to Rahmbo Emanuel on cutting the size of his stimulus.
As for my original comment? Even before the NPS centennial celebration itself, here's Dear Leader already pushing backdoor privatization at the Park Service.
You Dumbocrats keep falling for this.
Then you keep attacking the messengers of truth.
And, then, many of you claim people like me "really" voted for Trump.
That last part of the top pull quote was my response to them, copy-pasted