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The thread has focused very little on this which suggests to me it is an unmistakable L. I like the idea of the gov backing off on things it doesn’t need to control, and we’re all kind of fucked and full of plastic anyway, but most people aren’t living the self-sufficient dream to make up for it yet.
I don't really know what you mean by this. The people for whom this is an L is, well, everyone. Including DuPont executives who have pumped industrial quantities of this stuff into the environment. It will affect them and their families the same as anyone else. Tetraethyllead was widely used as an additive for gasoline to boost the octane rating. It took literally more than fifty years for people to agree that spewing lead fumes into the residential atmosphere is a bad idea, because lead is a neurotoxin. What exactly is your opinion on this? Do you think the government should have backed off on it? Because then you would be in line with DuPont's army of lobbyists.

Robert Bilott is already 20 years into investigating the effects of C8 chemicals on the human body. I imagine it will be many more before people come to a conclusion similar to the one that was reached regarding tetraethyllead. Namely that is is literal poison. Change does take time, and it would be easier if people like you did not insist on simply giving up and letting gigantic chemical companies get away with whatever they want.
 
I don't really know what you mean by this. The people for whom this is an L is, well, everyone. Including DuPont executives who have pumped industrial quantities of this stuff into the environment. It will affect them and their families the same as anyone else. Tetraethyllead was widely used as an additive for gasoline to boost the octane rating. It took literally more than fifty years for people to agree that spewing lead fumes into the residential atmosphere is a bad idea, because lead is a neurotoxin. What exactly is your opinion on this? Do you think the government should have backed off on it? Because then you would be in line with DuPont's army of lobbyists.

Robert Bilott is already 20 years into investigating the effects of C8 chemicals on the human body. I imagine it will be many more before people come to a conclusion similar to the one that was reached regarding tetraethyllead. Namely that is is literal poison. Change does take time, and it would be easier if people like you did not insist on simply giving up and letting gigantic chemical companies get away with whatever they want.
I guess my meaning wasn’t clear. This thread (me included) is overall pleased with this administration and tends to focus on the good decisions being made. I don’t mind that, it’s just a fact. So it’s telling to me that nobody is talking about this decision. It reinforces that it’s quite a big mistake. I’m not sure how you got the impression I think rolling regulations like this back is a good thing at all, it’s the complete opposite.
 
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Trump did react to the diagnosis hoping Biden for the best and of course people are going "he didn't write it" or "an intern wrote it". Just because trump doesn't like to speak with big words like a 17th century aristocrat doesn't make him dumb.

I mean, a staffer did write it. Same could be said for the majority of Trump's social media posts tbh, but this somehow never comes up when these people choose to flip their shit over the ones with typos or all-caps shit talking. What gets me about these faggots is how they still insist on Trump being some kind of unhinged sociopathic retard based on shit that is entirely happening in their head at this point. Trump has done or said literally nothing about Biden being ill besides, at most, asking his staffers to post a tasteful PR-friendly acknowledgement, because if he didn't, the retarded public would either read into his silence and bash him for that, or assume he didn't know. But no, TDS demands that Trump needs to be shat on anyway, so we get "yeah he's demonstrating a degree of grace, class, respect, or at least restraint befitting his office. But fuck him anyway, I bet he WANTS to publicly be a dick about it or MIGHT be in the future. Unlike us, who are good compassionate individuals above such behavior. What a fucking deranged, evil, sociopathic retard, I hope he dies painfully of cancer."

Absolutely fucking unhinged behavior. If TDS can't be considered some kind of novel mental illness borne of some specific culture-bound social contagion, it sure as all hell is a manifestation of some already-existing ones.

I do find it funny that Trump Jr. didn't bother to censor himself the same way lol
 
I guess my meaning wasn’t clear. This thread and subforum are overall pleased with this administration and tend to focus on the good decisions being made. I don’t mind that, it’s just a fact. So it stands out that nobody is talking about this decision. It reinforces that it’s quite a big mistake.
I see... Yes I would prefer if more people especially on the left actually cared about this as opposed to being against "oil", which is a far greater stretch for the average person. I am also generally for the idea of government backing off on things they don't need to control, but generally means generally. There are some things that basically require government intervention.

The payment processor question is one such example. If things get much worse then I think bankers are going to have a bad time. The purpose of government is basically to avoid having a bad time. The 3500 people who had a bad time with medical complications arising from C8 in their bloodstream had a very bad time. I choose to talk about this issue in particular because it is easy to point to that study, the cancers, the birth defects, and the settlements, to show the average person exactly what happened. For a lot of environmental stuff, it'd harder to do that - there is less hard physical evidence. Hence the contempt and humor most people treat the "just stop oil" activists with.

In my ideal world, we would cut bennies from welfare massively and redirect some of that money into filtering C8 from the water so that hard working proles wouldn't have to suffer to keep the darkies and lazies in line.
 
The same argument is often used to justify abortion. Not to mention, babies are said to offend the climate.

Because he is opposed to suffering, Bartkus set off a bomb to kill and maim innocent people. The important thing to shitilbs is their supposedly noble intentions.

Assuming progressives continue to progress, Bartkus was only slightly ahead of his time. I have been informed by a liberal establishmentarian in good standing that homosexuality should be encouraged because it prevents people from reproducing.
I have predicted for a while that abortion extremism will, following the model of the Slavery Debate (in which slavery went from evil --> necessary evil --> positive good --> let's go enslave White people too, with attendant increases in terrorism each step of the way), radicalize to the extreme of calling for mandatory abortions. It will be called for on paternalist grounds (targeted first at people like teenage mothers) and environmentalism (China-style population controls).

All of it is part of the hydra-like Death Cult of the West: Abortion, Euthanasia/Suicide, Malthusianism and a complex of ideas built out of nihilism, atheism and moral relativism.
 
in which slavery went from evil --> necessary evil --> positive good --> let's go enslave White people too, with attendant increases in terrorism each step of the way
I thought that you were talking about abolitionism leading to the American civil war, and you probably are still talking about it in a more runabout fashion, but with that in mind, I'd really like to know if you're talking about Irish indentured servitude or if this was something more psychotic of the Democrat party's work. I'd also appreciate your literary source.
 
Still seeing white-ass boomers talking about abolishing whiteness, and then defining whiteness as basically what they might have previously called "white supremacy." Like of course I'm not talking about eliminating white people, just white-ness, which is this other quality, this idea of institutional racial superiority.

They all feign ignorance as to why actually calling it "whiteness" instead of something conceptually closer to what they're actually describing sets people off. I think the right way to respond is probably to start describing the worst parts of black culture as "blackness," especially anything that claims blacks are superior or should be given reparations or other racially-specific forms of special treatment. Yeah, when I say I want to eliminate "blackness," I just mean that stuff. What's the big deal?!
"Dismantling white supremacy" means the white people I don't like have everything taken away, but I and people like me give up nothing.
 
>President Trump signs Take It Down Act, criminalizing deepfake and revenge porn.

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Looking at the text, it doesn't look like it will prevent anything from being posted that has already been posted voluntarily.
It seems to have an exception clause for those engaged in commercial pornography and or consenual nude posting, so looks like onlyfans whores and voluntary nudes are exempted from this act.
Can anyone with a bit of law background else confirm or deny this?
 
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