Politics

Republicans have such narrow and shortsighted vision. Sure, removing regulations and faking safety data makes someone a quick buck today, but the reasons for the regulations and standards haven't gone away and people will suffer.

Actually, as I type that I realize it may not be short-sightedness so much as just not caring about anyone's suffering but your own. Or maybe the one gives rise to the other. For many of us, to live in a world with so much suffering is tangibly our own suffering too, so we're motivated to reduce others' suffering even if we are selfish. But a very extremely selfish and egotistical person may hardly feel others' suffering at all compared to the pleasure they feel from their own short-term profit.

They make their own world worse but they're too blinkered to see it or care. I guess that's the mindset of many Republicans.

Sort of ironic that a republican president (Nixon) created the EPA, only for a republican attempt to destroy it.

If Trumo had his way, we'd all be paying Nestlé for PFAS-free water.

What? A group of scientists can be pressured by government agencies to make a chemical sound safer than it is?

But, but, but... It's The Science™...

Thank goodness there was never anything shady going on at the NIH, or CDC during Covid, like them covering up funding for the lab that might have been responsible for the entire pandemic...

Thank goodness any question of The Science™ being influenced by government was tinfoil-hatwearing conspiracy theory, just at that specific moment.