• Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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    It’s almost like if you don’t regulate giant corporations they’ll do whatever the fuck they want

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      And the one thing they want is to maximize profits. It’s not that they want rivers and lakes to be polluted, it’s that not polluting rivers and lakes costs more money than polluting rivers and lakes. And if the fines aren’t higher than the difference, then they’ll just keep doing it and pay their subscription fee.

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      They’ll even do things like paying off regulators so that they repeal laws that limit profit

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    Just let them pollute until everyone is dead, then the marker will force them to stop! - Libertarian Morons

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    "What an absolute disgrace! We must not allow this travesty to continue!

    The Union of Concerned Scientists must be punished, in order to protect our beloved economy and the quarterly earnings of private shareholder portfolio staples like Tyson foods/TSN!"

    -Neoliberals to fascists, probably

    But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!

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      You think it’s liberals who would want to punish scientists for pointing out corporate greed?

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          Yeah that’s fair, I inadvertently glossed over the “neo”. Still though, punishing scientists for getting in the way of corporate profit seems way more on-brand for modern American conservatives than any other ideology.

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            It’s not binary, but I agree with your general sentiment.

            However, the American citizen has been propagandized and groomed to be corporate bootlickers. To our own demise, we accept the gross negligence of both parties to create reasonable regulation to maintain the balance needed for capitalism to function fairly.

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    Bought their frozen hot wings by mistake and it was awful. I was looking for the Costco wings with the pouch, but I was in BJs and got them mixed up. Don’t get the tyson hot wings. Also Tyson workers were treated really badly during the pandemic and before that their workers wore diapers so they didn’t have to go to the bathroom.