[K3CAL] The Dumbing Down of America - The next steps underway

[dwightcgordon at protonmail.com]

My aim isn't to stifle communication or opinions, I just dont use this email address for that purpose. I can just make a new email address and unsubscribe on this account. No harm intended on my part.

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On Thursday, 04/30/26 at 10:49 Bob Sheskin via K3CAL <k3cal at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> CARA has always been a ham radio club and a social club at least in the 15 or so years I have been a member. The reflector has been around since then, I know as I originally set it up. In the past other non-ham but impacts us as people posts have been made. I do not think a hobby club about communication should stifle a member who has impactful information to communicate. Discord is brand new and I am sure many have not yet ventured over there, maybe down the road. Currently this is the club's main avenue for disseminating information.
>
> 73, Bob N3PPH
>
> On 4/30/26 10:26 AM, dwightcgordon--- via K3CAL wrote:
>
>> While I agree, what does this have to do with radio or club communications? There is a discord server that would be more approapriate for this sort of discussion I'd rather not fill my primary email with political or opinion based email chains. Thanks.
>>
>> Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for Android.
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> On Thursday, 04/30/26 at 09:41 N5WTA N5WTA via K3CAL [<k3cal at mailman.qth.net>](mailto:k3cal at mailman.qth.net) wrote:
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>>> While others may not, I appreciate the email. Makes me feel less like a conspiracy theorist/nut job and more like the thinker I thought I was lol. I see the writing on the wall and have noticed communistic style oppression in the world’s leading “democracy”. Humans spent more time teaching dogs to hunt than women to read at one point. Same with slavery. IBut there has also been a lot of painting anti fascist groups as terrorist because people don’t know what antifa stands for. It’s sad.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Johnathan Ibert
>>>
>>>> On Apr 30, 2026, at 9:08 AM, Shawn Donley [<n3ae at comcast.net>](mailto:n3ae at comcast.net) wrote:
>>>
>>>> 
>>>> Please forgive the political nature of this email but I find these recent events to be very disturbing. Not sure people know what's going on.
>>>>
>>>> President Trump’s [FY2027 budget request](https://www.nasa.gov/fiscal-year-2027-budget-request/) would cut NASA by $5.6 billion, with the deepest reductions falling on science and STEM education while leaving Artemis and a planned lunar base camp funded through prior appropriations. The request would cut the Science Mission Directorate by roughly 50%, [terminate 27 operating missions, cancel 26 missions in development](https://www.planetary.org/save-nasa-science) and zero out the Office of STEM Engagement, pushing science funding more than $1 billion below 2007 levels.
>>>>
>>>> [Senate hearing largely splits on party lines over proposed $5.6 billion NASA cut](https://www.rdworldonline.com/senate-largely-hearing-splits-on-party-lines-over-5-6-billion-nasa-cut/?spMailingID=196397&puid=961195&E=961195)
>>>>
>>>> ----- AND ----
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>>>> Trump fired all 22 members of the NSF’s advisory board on Friday, possibly making budget cuts easier to execute.
>>>>
>>>> [Trump fired all 22 members of the NSF’s advisory board](https://www.rdworldonline.com/trump-fired-all-22-members-of-the-nsfs-advisory-board-possibly-making-budget-cuts-easier-to-execute/?spMailingID=196397&puid=961195&E=961195)
>>>>
>>>> Final Thought:
>>>>
>>>> An uneducated populace is generally easier to control, manipulate, and subjugate because they may lack the critical thinking skills to question authority or recognize mistreatment. Historically, this concept is often summarized by the notion that while education makes a people easy to lead, it makes them difficult to drive, govern, or enslave.
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