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Feb 13 2023 04:58am
Quote (Ghot @ 13 Feb 2023 07:26)
I checked out "The Lever" website.


and concluded that government corruption on behalf of corporations couldn't possibly be at fault here, since that's just a lefty conspiracy? you people are truly brainwashed, lol...

Quote (JohnnyMcCoy @ 13 Feb 2023 04:51)
socialist rant at 4.30 am in the morning, gg


fascist reply 4.50 in the morning. the irony.
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#12
Feb 13 2023 06:08am
Typical America, left and right looking for whom to put the blame on except for making regulations stricter regardless of who is in power to prevent accidents like this in the future.
I knew you guys were declining but the rate is alarming even for my taste.

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Feb 13 2023 06:16am
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Typical America, left and right looking for whom to put the blame on except for making regulations stricter regardless of who is in power to prevent accidents like this in the future.
I knew you guys were declining but the rate is alarming even for my taste.




It doesn't matter what brakes are on a train... it can still be derailed. :/
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Feb 13 2023 06:32am
Quote (duffman316 @ Feb 12 2023 03:39pm)
This might be an oversimplification as im just reading up on this but it looks like the regulations that could have prevented this were opposed by rail lobbyist influencing a republican government under trump who repealed the requirements for better brakes on trains carrying hazardous chemicals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_3tSssEiE


How do we know that improved brakes would have prevented the derailment?
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Feb 13 2023 07:03am
Quote (Ghot @ 13 Feb 2023 13:16)
It doesn't matter what brakes are on a train... it can still be derailed. :/


doesn't matter how many airbags a car has, it can still crash, right? great argument there...
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Feb 13 2023 07:04am
Quote (fender @ Feb 13 2023 08:03am)
doesn't matter how many airbags a car has, it can still crash, right? great argument there...




The point is... that article is just some pointless lefty soap-boxing. :/

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Feb 13 2023 07:07am
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Typical America, left and right looking for whom to put the blame on except for making regulations stricter regardless of who is in power to prevent accidents like this in the future.
I knew you guys were declining but the rate is alarming even for my taste.


while it is indeed a fact that both republicans as well as democrats (except progressives) are beholden to the corporations bribing them, this is literally a case where republicans (trump admin) REPEALED existing regulations introduced by dems (obama admin). yes, both sides are bad, but not equally so.
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Feb 13 2023 07:14am
Quote (Ghot @ 13 Feb 2023 14:04)
The point is... that article is just some pointless lefty soap-boxing. :/


so you think corporations bribing politicians to de-regulate their industry, privatising profits while socialising risks and damages, is a good thing? imagine being so brainwashed with partisan bullshit that you can't even condemn blatant corruption, simply because your side committed it...
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Feb 13 2023 08:04am
Quote (fender @ Feb 13 2023 08:14am)
so you think corporations bribing politicians to de-regulate their industry, privatising profits while socialising risks and damages, is a good thing? imagine being so brainwashed with partisan bullshit that you can't even condemn blatant corruption, simply because your side committed it...




That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the BS website the OP's vid came from.
It's so left leaning, it fell over and is rolling down the hill. :/
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Feb 13 2023 09:00am
Quote (Ghot @ Feb 13 2023 08:04am)
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the BS website the OP's vid came from.
It's so left leaning, it fell over and is rolling down the hill. :/


People with values get to have opinions, too. I used to get so tired of "why did you link to Fox News?" It was bad enough that now, I will go out of my way to find a Fox link for a story I read elsewhere before linking it.
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