Even if they all abandoned red team and joined blu team, what are they gonna do? They won’t fix flint, they won’t fix Arizona, they won’t fix the Colorado river, they won’t fix COVID, they won’t do anything. Not to mention, they broke a strike that might’ve prevented this
Not to mention, they broke a strike that might’ve prevented this
Right. Conservatives would've done that as well, so...what does the voting record of this town matter other than for libs to piss on them?
I mean, I know that's why, but come on
I'm amazed at how libs can talk about our accepting the use of revolutionary violence as some kind of moral event horizon, while openly cheering for the death and disability of countless multitudes.
Libs want people to think correctly, preferably before they've even encountered the topic instead of changing and growing through material conditions and working through ideological contradictions. If you don't you're one of the damned. Fucking Calvinist worldview.
It's worse than that, the late-stage Aristocracy knew what they were doing and said "This is good, actually. Keep down and maybe we'll pretend our feudal obligations mean anything anymore"
The libs are outright cheering the destruction of their own ideological basis for existing. They're handing the fash the rope they'll hang them with while ignoring our pleas to maybe stop making so much rope.
they know on some level if they dont sell the rope to the fascists it will go to us. they would much rather the fascists have the rope than us
I mean they could slow down rope production! I’d rather we had the rope but if we’re not gonna get it please stop making so much
not gonna happen, they make too much :brrrrrrrrrrrr: selling rope
Libs want people to think correctly, preferably before they’ve even encountered the topic instead of changing and growing through material conditions and working through ideological contradictions.
These same assholes were happily voting for Reagan and Bush in prior decades while whining about how the Democrats were corrupt, feckless, and weak on domestic security.
My NYC Aunt claims to be a die-hard Democrat, but doggedly defends Giuliani and Bloomberg because they "cleaned up New York". Also, a huge Cuomo fan who doesn't seem to give a shit about how he secured a Republican Senate Majority to fuck over marginally progressive upstate Dems.
Just utterly clueless people who blow whichever way the TV tells them the wind is moving.
TBH the Ohio River watershed is already fucked.
Dredging the Ohio River to make fishing safe year round would take decades. At least 3-4 feet of contaminated sediment near places like Cincinatti.
Everything from tanneries to refineries have dumped chemicals on that river.
yeah but this is a mass release and burning of chlorinated hydrocarbons. even with how disastrously these factories are run, they dont dump halogenated compounds, OSHA still has a couple teeth.
The stuff was dumped decades ago, and is already in the river.
Eastman Kodak used to dump their used photodeveloper in the Ohio river all the way up until the end of the 60's. That is just one company.
good point. its still horrific that were returning to 1960s levels of hazardous waste pollution
Because if 51% of people that have the time that day to vote in a precinct that doesn't discourage the act vote for the wrong candidate, that 51%, the other 49% that also voted, and everyone that didn't can all suffer and die while the enlightened ones chortle and talk about le popcorn in the wine cave.
:maybe-later-honey: :maybe-later-kiddo:
maybe consider voting for the people who didnt do anything to prevent or mitigate this ha ha did you ever think of that???
Technically the watershed doesn't really matter. That's just the high elevation hill streams that flows downards into the Ohio river.
What matters is the Ohio river itself, which is the source of drinking water for 5 million people
well the heaviest affected wont be the cities that dot the river, they have decent water treatment plants. those affected are rural and poor communities. so mostly conservatives and ppl too focused on survival to care abt politics (the ppl the tweet author dehumanizes for not liking his team)
well the heaviest affected wont be the cities that dot the river, they have decent water treatment plants. those affected are rural and poor
Do cities really have much that much better water treatment than other places?
yeah, water treatment is pretty expensive. and to remove the organic compounds you would need membrane filtration, and basic water treatment is mostly for removing sediment and killing microorganisms. and some unincorporated communities and poor, rural towns cant afford the basic systems let alone the $million+ investment of reverse osmosis systems. thats why so many ppl in amerika still use a well
:so-true: this wouldn't have happened if a democrat was in the white house
Huh, I wonder why midwestern hot beds of Populism, Farmer-Labor coalitions, and the New Deal vote conservative now? Couldn't be that the Democrats are also a useless right-wing party.
Yes, I know I am being a bit simplistic and reductive here, but damn do liberals just need to believe that all these rural midwesterners just suddenly became morally backwards at the same time as the Democrats neoliberal turn. And somehow Democrats would be magically better, even on things with full bipartisan consensus.
There are already anecdotal reports that it is causing air-quality problems in Canada, but okay.
MY MOM ALREADY VOTES FOR LIBERALS, MORON!
Goddamn, that attitude just kills m.
GOP State Legislature: Gerrymanders the fuck out of every district as soon as they get an ounce of power
National Democrats: "Guess you shouldn't have ever once given them an ounce of power, but now there's nothing we can do."
Victim blaming is exactly what the original dipshit was doing. Is this a parody account?
https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/Normal_Writing/status/1625226277014700034#m here is the original post. The guy seems like a unironic blue MAGA psycho, but on one reply he compares himself to Lincoln, MLK and Jesus because he got ratio'd, which seems WAY too on the nose
Trains famously stay in one place. No way it could’ve traveled to East Palestine from someplace else. This is solely the locals’ responsibility.
:i-voted: humanitarian and environmental disaster good if it mean more blue vote
