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What year is it, 2017?

https://2017-2021.state.gov/the-united-states-withdraws-from...

Boring, been here before. UNESCO and world moved on. With some notable declarations like Demoscene and Techno music being added in a number of countries. Too bad those couldn't be added to a US registry also.




Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648410

Congress locked obama into doing it.

I guess in today’s context where the executive treats the other two branches of gov as having a purely advisory role, this seems strange.


Demoscene. A number of countries meaning Norway, Sweden and Finland?


Germany too.


Whoa, that is fascinating. We did this before.


Yeah, there's a long and tangled history with UNESCO that spans multiple administrations.

That said, the wording of the statement is... problematic.


Seems like there's nothing new coming from Trump v2. Just a repeat of v1 with varying degree of intensity.




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