"And for my next act as president, I have decided for it to be legal for companies to poison you, as long as they can make just a little more money. Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
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I never forgot that line when I first saw Shrek in theaters back in 2001. The genius of that line will go down in history and never be forgotten.
Why? How can this be a positive step? Aside from the obvious profit thing…
That's the only step needed. If it profits the ruling class in any way, even tangentially, fuck all the suffering, pollution, collapse it causes the poor.
The poor need to rebalance this interest calculation for them.
Yeah, but this is such a dumb take by the rich. They have to breathe the same air and drink the same water as everyone else. You don’t get to buy your way out of PFAs.
Lmao, perfect. Great movie, by the way.
This is way past greed as a business strategy or some kind of global market collusion shit. This is greed as a mental illness presenting in people who have way too much power/money/influence. It's nero (who wasn't actually near Rome at all) playing a Bop It! while he gets a diaper changed. It's sickness making policy decisions.
If you look at this from Turnip's point of view, it's about both profit and stalling or stopping any lawsuits related to these chemicals. A personal injury lawsuit is more difficult to prove if the use of those chemicals is not banned. It's about selfishness and helping his wealthy friends who will now owe him a favor.
Its positive in that he is trying to create mutants so the world can feel more like Marvel. Or maybe The Thing.
Forever chemicals are forever because they are inert. Examples from comments like lead are not forever chemicals, the term refers to PFAS
There are some that still need to be banned because they are linked to negative health outcomes
This makes it even easier as a Canadian to never buy any American products again.
They won’t even be allowed to sell their poisoned crap here 👌
This is why we're not buying anything from you
How do people become such pieces of shit? Actually, pieces of shit have a positive benefit for the world. These motherfuckers are just dead inside to extremes I hope I never know.
How do people become such pieces of shit?
Chrystia Freeland, author of Plutocrats, says that the present trend towards plutocracy occurs because the rich feel that their interests are shared by society:
You don't do this in a kind of chortling, smoking your cigar, conspiratorial thinking way. You do it by persuading yourself that what is in your own personal self-interest is in the interests of everybody else. So you persuade yourself that, actually, government services, things like spending on education, which is what created that social mobility in the first place, need to be cut so that the deficit will shrink, so that your tax bill doesn't go up. And what I really worry about is, there is so much money and so much power at the very top, and the gap between those people at the very top and everybody else is so great, that we are going to see social mobility choked off and society transformed.
There is no magical way out of this — there will be blood.
It'd really suck if they became so out of touch with reality that they forgot what pitchforks and Halifax Gibbets are. Suck for them, I mean.
Make America Healthy Again /s
MA HA…. HAhahahahah
I give up how do I even make sense out of this
You don't
They're relying on people giving up, because the tsunami of shit is just too much
They need the American people to be like the elephant chained to a tiny stake from a young age
It has worked. You accept things that the rest of the world find bewildering and abhorrent, because you feel like there's nothing you can do
You die from easily treatable medical problems so that people can make a profit
Your children get shot in schools, and nothing happens apart from parents buying bulletproof backpacks
People are actively supporting someone who will make their lives worse, because he encourages their hate and bigotry, so they love him for it
America is already broken
The civilised world despises you, but we also pity you.
Personally, I hate the fact that the millions of decent people get fucked by the whims of the stupid, the hateful and those who just want to make money without caring about the consequences
Healthcare profits go up, what else would be the definition of a great america?
Fingers crossed for putting lead back in paint.
Well, they voted for deregulation, after all...
Keep it classy, Trump officials.