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kyburgthebrideofcaliban:
xtremecaffeine:
thehumanarkle:
zenosanalytic:
bogleech:
Conservatives have so much fucking nerve talking about how “ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ARE OUT OF CONTROL” when absolutely no-one feels inconvenienced by them or has ever even encountered them in their personal lives unless they’re the CEO’s of a megaconglomerate bitter that they couldn’t rip up a national park and buy like their fifth house boat
Yeah, it’s literally the Kochs saying “It’s so UNFAIR that when the oil pipelines we own but don’t maintain bust and flood a town with toxic sludge, that WE have to pay to fix it.” and “An employee we forced to clean chemical storage tanks without the proper gear for 15 years developed cancer, and they’re allowed to sue us over it? TYRANNY!!”
How is it never occurred to me to put it like this before?
“It’s so unfair that we can’t just dump coal waste into rivers!”
And when anything DOES impact the ~average person, big corporations generally don’t have to follow those rules. Like during the CA water restrictions people were barely able to bathe but Nestle was still bottling millions of gallons (and turning around and selling those bottles to people who couldn’t use their tap water bc of the restrictions).
Corporations being able to earn as much profit as possible is more important than people’s lives in America.
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xtremecaffeine:
thehumanarkle:
zenosanalytic:
bogleech:
Conservatives have so much fucking nerve talking about how “ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ARE OUT OF CONTROL” when absolutely no-one feels inconvenienced by them or has ever even encountered them in their personal lives unless they’re the CEO’s of a megaconglomerate bitter that they couldn’t rip up a national park and buy like their fifth house boat
Yeah, it’s literally the Kochs saying “It’s so UNFAIR that when the oil pipelines we own but don’t maintain bust and flood a town with toxic sludge, that WE have to pay to fix it.” and “An employee we forced to clean chemical storage tanks without the proper gear for 15 years developed cancer, and they’re allowed to sue us over it? TYRANNY!!”
How is it never occurred to me to put it like this before?
“It’s so unfair that we can’t just dump coal waste into rivers!”
And when anything DOES impact the ~average person, big corporations generally don’t have to follow those rules. Like during the CA water restrictions people were barely able to bathe but Nestle was still bottling millions of gallons (and turning around and selling those bottles to people who couldn’t use their tap water bc of the restrictions).
Corporations being able to earn as much profit as possible is more important than people’s lives in America.
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